Photo credit: USC Digital Archives
Paul Morgan, a three-year old Van Nuys boy, endured a painful injury when he accidentally slipped one of his right fingers into a steel hexagonal nut.
Two LAPD officers and a nurse try and remove it. Notice the ominous saw and the smirking little boy in the second photo from the top.
The boy reminds me of the time my little brother Jeffrey when 6 years old pulled the small plastic wheels off a hotwheel toy car and shoved them up his nose. The family doctor couldn’t even extract them. Finally when leaving the doctor’s office, Jeff sneezed and out they popped!
All of us have a story of that dumb (or is that funny?) thing we did as a child. Too bad this child was immortalized in the newspaper; the event still haunts him to this very day. Although at his present age I suspect the “kid stuck in a nut” does not mind so much stories from a more innocent time and age.
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Click the link and you will see it came from the LA Examiner. I could not find a photographer credit.
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Neat pix!!
But I’m thinking USC didn’t have a photog on the scene for these wonderful slice-of-life photos.
Was it the Times? The Mirror? The old Daily News? The Van Nuys News? (Later, the Van Nuys News and Greensheet)? Maybe the afternoon, North Hollywood-based Valley Times?
USC oughta, REALLY, credit the publication and the photog.
Don’t you think?
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Here in Van Nuys 