SHAKY STONE

An electrician who had been hired by his local council to maintain and repair the boroughs street lights ended up in hospital after a well-intentioned passer-by attempted to save him from what appeared to be certain death. While the electrician was high up a ladder trying to rewire one of the street lights, he became bothered by a stone in his shoe. Rather than take the shoe off, he attempted to move the stone by shaking his leg vigorously. A pensioner who was out walking his dog at the time happened to be looking up at the electrician when he did this. Imagining that the poor man's shaking leg was the result of a convulsion brought on by a huge shock of electricity from the street lamp, he did what any sensible person would do and attempted to free the victim from the source of the shock. Unfortunately, this involved kicking the ladder out from under the electrician, an action which resulted in two broken legs and several months off work.

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