Lucky You (1958)

[Music] nowhere will you see anything to compare with this The Greatest Show on Earth he h Hur Hur step right up and see the most unusual injury defying death defying creatures in the universe hey hurry hurry hurry that the amazing sensation the scientific wonder the one and only shoot of Us come and see come and see the Babas fying wonder of the world let right up ladies and gentlemen see the hurdling hurdling huz the unheard hindrance to Highway happiness hey hurry hurry hurry and learn the secret of the tantalizing tent of mystery step right up ladies and gentlemen the show is about to begin well you'll certainly have to admit this is a strange assortment of uh well they are creatures look at that crazy cabus not even scratched sure but look closer steel for skin no one wonder it doesn't have to worry about getting cut by open Jack knives or Jagged metal but take a human being's skin soft flexible than tissue paper that's why a human being has to play it safe always cuts away from himself if the knife slips no damage is done he keeps his fingers well away from the edge of a knife behind the blade behind the business end or edge of any sharp tool and he knows there's no better place for a Sharp tool when it's not being used than in a rack up and out of the way and what's good for tools in a workshop is also good for knives in kitchens in fact for anything sharp or pointed use properly store properly that's the way to protect tissue paper skin lucky cut ofus no cuts no punctures no need to remember safety rules about the use of knives [Music] [Applause] uhoh well what do you know no better than that old Cracked Egg Humpty Dumpty now when it comes to Falling there's no luckier creature than this old windbag the fall of us he's light and he's bouncy and he's supposed to have a built-in gravity resistor gravity resistors we know nothing about gravity we do take a boy up in a tree oh about 20 ft about as high as an upstairs window of a home falling from this height he'd land at a speed of 25 M an hour why gravity that'd be just like going as fast as he could on his bike and then crashing into a solid brick wall and funny thing sometimes a one foot fall can be just as bad as a 20ft fall ah so what and so why care says our flouncing friend it can well feel this way about falling it can bounce so it never gives a single thought to the dangers of standing on a wobbly rocking chair or climbing up on rickety boxes or using a step ladder with a broken step or stepping on a dead Branch yes lucky fall of us it can float in air but we can't we have weight another thing we have bones about 200 all shapes and sizes treat them rough and they crack or break no one a human being is careful about climbing whether a few feet off the floor or quite a few feet off the ground what he stands on has to be sturdy and no chance of it slipping for instance a ladder is safe for climbing only when the feet are firmly anchored or when someone holds the ladder sure it's simple what safety rule isn't then there's this tricky thing called balance just a matter of keeping weight evenly distributed now as long as this boy stands straight he's safe now he's slightly off balance and he'd better be careful leans way out and he's in trouble he's topheavy he loses his balance one Crash Landing so instead of reaching way out a human being moves the ladder to a new spot and leaves flying through the air to the bird but this business of keeping one's balance is just as important on the ground as it is off the ground that's why this sort of thing spells danger in capital letters same here yes big things as well as small things same with school books a toy truck a baseball bat one of dad's garden tools whatever it is if it's lying around where people walk it's dangerous of course all this is a bunch of nonsense to the fibus who has never tripped over anything in its life couldn't if it [Music] tried lucky well not entirely but now take the shoot of us things that shoot don't seem to bother it at all but why should they this creature with cross ventilation is already 72% nothing a few more holes he should worry now as we all know shooting things pack a lot of [Music] power this kind of power can be Mighty rough when it lands on human beings who are made up of complicated and delicate organs tubes and tissues that's why human beings make such a to-do over handling and using Firearms the safe way that's why before using a gun this fellow learns from someone who really knows the right way to handle it same with loading aiming all the safety rules every good Sportsman should know he shoots only at Targets except when hunting and only when and where no other people are around that gun is always loaded as far as he is concerned and that one rule alone can save a lot of embarrassment and possible injuries fool with someone else else's guns without permission m not even just to show a friend yes to be safe a human being has to remember a lot of rules while our air conditioned friend doesn't have to remember a single one but while guns can't hurt it look what heat does nothing left but the holes let's move on to the the babus heat leaves it absolutely cold well cool anyway it's made of asbestos fuzzy but it just won't burn but there's nothing unburnable about human beings we can get burned and badly from anything as hot as 140° in fact this is just a little hotter than water out of most hot water faucets 140° yet Steam runs around 212° cooking grease gets up to 400° a lighted match up to 2100 de burning clothing as high as 2,000 de and only 140° heat can burn skin seriously so pots and pans are always turned so handles won't get bumped that way the Hot Stuff stays in the pans you take hot pads great little inventions the right thing to use for handling hot dishes and pans so the rule for any tool or Implement using heat is simply treat with respect and Handle With Care that goes double when dealing with open fires the only safe fire is one that is completely under control and one that stays where you want it to stay say the only good matches to carry are safety matches or matches kept in a closed metal container small campfires are better than big ones better to cook over take less wood and a lot easier to put out now as every Scout knows if you break a match in two before throwing it away you can be sure it's out and just as with matches the only kind of campfire to go off and leave is one that is out completely out yes the babus is fuzzy but lucky can't gets scalded can't get burned but my oh my does it go to Pieces fast when it gets in front of a moving car or truck now this cocky clangy creature continually makes connction ctions with conveyances and no cause for concern lucky hius with its spring protector this human beings don't have so keeping a sharp lookout for cars is the number one safety rule for pedestrians look at it this way it takes a pretty good track man to run a 100 yards in anything close to 10 seconds yet most human beings can cover a short distance like this in a second or two same with this distance now 2 seconds doesn't give much time to look out for approaching cars and not much time either for a driver to Screech his car to a stop so rather than try to beat a signal light as it's changing smart human beings wait for the green and then cross the street and even when the light is green it's safer to walk rather than run particularly on Corners where there are no traffic lights you can keep a better lookout for any car that may zip around the corner and walking is a good idea on crowded sidewalks too same with going through special playgrounds for small children the safe rule is walk don't run and no matter how many runs score the smart ball player stops and looks both ways before shagging a ball with none of these rules to remember the hbus can be carefree and careless in a way it's pretty lucky and in a way it isn't no for luck to really count it's got to be all the way it's got to be 100% and not a single one of these creatures can claim that certainly not the cutab US fall of us either shoab us mm- babus hardly hius no sure they all had a little luck but a little luck doesn't go very far actually there is only one kind of creature who can be completely safe and that creature is you yes lucky you you are cutable breakable puncturable burnable htable drown yet you can be 100% lucky because you can think and stopping to think can prevent accidents for instance say you're about to take a dive off a strange Dock and you're not sure about how deep the water is or what's on the bottom when you stop to think you don't take that dive the same with Deep Water Swimming if you're a rookie or even a fair swimmer when you stop to think you stay in safe water with your buddy say you get the notion to fool around in a canoe or a boat maybe feel like switching places when you stop and think you change your mind and stay put until you get back to the dock or Shore and this business of pulling up close behind a truck what if the truck stops suddenly or slows down fast to turn a corner when you ask yourself these questions you always keep a good distance back one out of every four pedestrian injuries is caused by people crossing streets between intersections whenever you stop to think of this you change your mind and go down to the next corner to cross funny the better you're dressed the more tempting it can be to climb around on buildings under construction but whether in Sunday or old clothes the speed with which you hit the ground is the same when you stop and think you always change your mind about climbing and move on and this silly business of taking a dare when you stop and think of who stands to get hurt you always figure it's not worth the risk anyway what sports star ever takes a dare all of a sudden it may seem like a good idea to to throw something say a rock where will it land how can you be sure or even big league pitchers throw wild once in a while when you think about it a second you drop the Rock and go on your way take aiming a gun at someone in fun when you stop and think of the accidents that have happened just this way you always kick that silly idea out of your mind fast it boils down to this whenever you stop to think you always prevent an accident and unlike the cabus the fibus the shabus the babus and the hbus who are only Lucky in a very small way and who never think you can be completely lucky and all because you can think [Music] [Applause]