The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08
SOME ODD WAYS OF
GETTING REVENGE
Rates by Dying Milk-One Man
Dyed His Dog Scarlet

4 farmer in the Lancashire village OF
Guide got a nasty shock the other morn
ing, says Pearson's Weekly When he
went into his dairy he found that all the
overnight inilk-8o gallons of it-had turn
| ed a bright red color.
Milk will sometimes go bad within a
few hours. and turn very queer colors,
but in this case the unplea SAINT hue proved
to be due to revenge. A dye of some
kind had been added to the milk. 1t
seems that someone had a grudge against
the farmer because, while others had
raised the price of milk, he was the onry
man in tfp district who stuck to the old
tariff.
Mean minds seem often TO work in the
same groove. Only the other day a Read
ing dentist got into serious trouble for
perpetrating a similar revenge on a photo
graphic firm whose studio was on the
floor below his offices.
He had quarrelled with them, and in
order to get even, had bored a hole in
| the floor and squirted ink through 1t
| upon the pictures below.
| Then there was the Thornton Heath
| case which, some years ago, caused a
considerable sensation in that neighbor-
| hood. A gentleman living in Quadrant
road went for holiday. When he re-
| turned he found his house covered with a
| ghastly mixture of tar and hideous pos
ters The offender was the keeper of a
| lodging house who had some fancied
| grudge against the unfortunate gentle
| man.
Dyed His Dog Scarlet
All Germany laughed over the story OF
of small town in Wurtemberg was tre-
mendously down on socialists, and made
| an absurd fuss because one of the town
! officials called upon him wearing a red
! tie. Next day the burgomaster's white
/ poodle disappeared. Twenty-four hours
/ later it was returned quite uninjured, but
| dyed vivid scarlet and wearing a blood
/ red riband round its neck and a red bow
| on it's tail.
! 1t is in little country places that spite
seems to take its meanest forms. In Aug
I ust last a Welsh woman was heavily fined
for flinging mustard in the eyes
of some sheep which had strayed
upon her place. Four of the poor crea-
lures were blinded entirely.
Everyone who has lived in a country
parish knows the intense rivalry that ex-
| lists at flower show time. This rivalry
sometimes leads to bitter feuds between
neighbors. and the result of such a feud
was tried before the Bath bench.
Vegetables Pricked With Needles
! western man was charged with doing
wful damage to the vegetables of a sue
cessful exhibitor, and the plaintiff showed
beans. onions, cabbages, and marrows
which had been ruined by having needles
/ thrust into them. The defendant admit
I ted his guilt but said that he had had
doubts as to whether the plaintiff showed
his own produce, and had adopted this
method of finding out.
There was a similar but worse case at
/ Godalming last summer. Some poisonous
substance was strewn all through beau
tiful garden, and all the plants destroyed
! A reward of G25 was offered for convic-
] ton, but the scoundrels were never
1 brought to book.
Discharged workmen have been known
| to wreal1 their spite upon their late EN-
ployers in scandalous fashion. At Lille,
in France, is one of the biggest sugar
refineries in the country. One night a
workman discharged for laziness man.
aged to get into the works and turned on
all the taps of the reservoirs filled with
molasses. The loss was very heavy, but
the worst of it was that the whole place
was flooded with thousands of gallons
/ of treacle and It was days before the
awful mess could be vfeared up
| More recently an ornamental lake in
| Shropshire was emptied by raising the
| water gate, and a great number of fine
| trout washed away into the river or de-
| stroyed. This. again, was a cruel and
mischievous act of revenge