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*'''Animal cruelty''': A dog bite, some unpleasant medicine and redistribution of Frederick’s pudding to victim dog.
*'''Animal cruelty''': A dog bite, some unpleasant medicine and redistribution of Frederick’s pudding to victim dog.
*'''Playing with matches''': Death (human combustion).
*'''Playing with matches''': '''Death''' (non-spontaneous human combustion).
*'''Casual racism''': Being compulsorily dyed black by a bearded giant.
*'''Casual racism''': Being compulsorily dyed black by a bearded giant.


*'''Hunting''': Your quarry turns the tables and you find yourself, your spouse and her coffee cup being shot at by a bespectacled rabbit. (Rabbit's own child suffers collateral damage being scalded by falling coffee). In fairness fairly credulous hunter allowing himself to be overpowered and outfoxed by a rabbit. No-one emerges out of this tale with much credit.
*'''Hunting''': Your quarry turns the tables and you find yourself, your spouse and her coffee cup being shot at by a bespectacled rabbit. (Rabbit’s own child suffers collateral damage being scalded by falling coffee). In fairness fairly credulous hunter allowing himself to be overpowered and outfoxed by a rabbit. No-one emerges out of this tale with much credit.
*'''Thumb sucking''': Forcible amputation of thumbs by large man in red trousers with giant shears.
*'''Thumb sucking''': Forcible amputation of thumbs by large man in red trousers with giant shears.
*'''Not eating soup''': Death (starvartion)
*'''Not eating soup''': '''Death''' (starvartion)
*'''Fidgeting''': Having the dining room table collapse on you and incurring wrath of your parents.
*'''Fidgeting''': Having the dining room table collapse on you and incurring wrath of your parents.
*'''Walking vacantly''': Near-drowning. Loss of schoolbook. Mirth of fish.
*'''Walking vacantly''': Near-drowning. Loss of schoolbook. Mirth of fish.
*'''Playing with umbrella in a storm''': Death (cause of death not articulated; body never recovered).
*'''Playing with umbrella in a storm''': '''Death''' (presumed: cause of death not articulated; body never recovered).


Never did [[me]] any harm, though.
Never did [[me]] any harm, though.