Putting the boot in Red Light district
14th November 1981, Page 19
14th November 1981
Page 19
Page 19, 14th November 1981
— Putting the boot in Red Light district
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RED-FACED with embarrassment and chagrin, an Osram-GEC commercial representative was prosected for having only one working brake light on a car with a boot full of spare car-bulb kits. Leicester magistrates seemed to think it was bad luck and dismissed the case.
Osram-GEC says that more than 123,000 vehicle bulbs fail every day, mostly during journeys, which should give the ambitious policeman plenty of scope for advancement.
MYSTERY surrounds an accident in Derbyshire, in which a 32-ton lorry overturned and nearly 5,000 chickens escaped from it. One theory is that the vehicle went out of control when, just for a lark, all the birds jumped off their perches at the same time.