Accidents
There are sometimes accidents, also at unused fountains:
- 10 June 1981: Alfredo Rampi, Italy
- 14 October 1987: Jessica McClure, Texas
- 5 June 2006: two children in Gravina, South Italy, the father is accused of causing this incident
- 28 December 2007: Felix von Quistorp, a boy drowned in a castle's fountain in Oberbayern, Germany
- August 2011: two deaths in Magdeburg, Germany, when repairing a fountain
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)
“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)