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:
“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)
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)