A kid in A&E with a saucepan stuck on his head, or a bloke there in a dressing gown with a tap stuck to his toe? Someone waiting at the dentist with a bandage around their head,tied with a bow on top? I've not seen a dog running out of a butchers with a string of sausages, but I've seen one leg it out of a bakers with a half baguette. This was in France, so possibly could have been the national stereotype there.
My Italian brother in law used to lie on the sofa with a blanket, a water bottle and a bed cap on when he had a cold. Always made me think of some of those old cartoons!
One of my dachshunds stole a French baguette from a family in the new forest who were intending to have it for their lunch They were inconsolable
I've seen a frog stretched out between the beaks of two competing chickens ... Made me think of the Larson cartoon:
... and I had to look at one of these in my arm for three months (will spare the squeamish from the real thing)
One of my cousins had the same. He always looked forward to the district nurse coming around and scraping off the bits of flesh that had healed to the rods. Not.
Never have or either seen anyone catch an old boot or can when fishing. Though I did convince myself that I was reeling in a dead body when night fishing near Whitby. It was just a huge heap of seaweed, thankfully.
Didn't have that problem ... but the semicircle of trainee Surgeons all went a bit green when the Consultant lost grip of the drill chuck that slid down one of the rods when he was dismantling it all.
Scooped a revolver out of the mud in Leamington with a fishing net ... mid 1970's ... Rozzers were well pleased
They do. Had a gull actually sit down next to me a bench on Poole Quay, eyeing up my chips. He made his move, but I was too quick for the feathery barsteward. Punch in the beak next time, fella
I helped the staff in Greggs remove a pigeon from the shop last Wednesday. It looked like a youngster, but has already learned that flakey pastry creates a food source for it.
Heard, not seen, but I was in A 'n E after a cycling accident and heard some one in the cubical next to mine say "well, it looks like a bullet wound to me". My son, aged four was in the park with his mother and baby sister, he fell off the swing and got a nasty cut on the top of his head. Lots of blood, so my wife discovered that a disposable nappy (unused) both fitted over his head and absorbed all the blood very effectively. Also kept his ears warm. Even aged four he was mortified sitting in the hospital waiting room with a nappy on his head.
