Have You Seen This? Extension twine hazard claims 2 extra victims

THE FRONT YARD — Some animals, like cats, have an enhanced capability to see in low mild. People, not a lot. So, whereas cats run round at midnight (with night-time imaginative and prescient that is six instances higher than people), we tend to stroll immediately into obstacles equivalent to trailer hitches and tree branches.

However we people are everlasting optimists. Regardless that we battle to see at evening, we’re nonetheless identified to run round with reckless abandon. I keep in mind being actually clotheslined at a Scout camp once I was youthful. We had been scrambling round after darkish, enjoying video games, and I ran immediately right into a rope that somebody had strung between two timber to dry their garments. It caught me within the throat, and I hit the bottom like a load of bricks.

Extension cords may pose hazards at midnight, like this one.

The motion begins when a girl runs out into her yard after darkish. Maybe she’s going to get one thing from her automotive. Perhaps she simply bought the urge to really feel the wind in her hair. Her foot catches on the extension twine that is powering an inflatable Christmas ornament within the yard, and she or he drops like a type of ridiculous troopers in “Goldfinger.” Her heroic husband then rushes exterior to assist, however he falls sufferer to the identical twine.

The ethical of the story? Do not run at midnight.

And in the event you do have to go exterior at evening, take a cat alongside to information you.