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by Jose Schorr (Source unknown. From George W. Harper Collection)
Juan enlivened his dull job of road repairing by wooing the wives who lived along the road. One day when Juan was whistling while he worked, an irate husband shot him. Juan later sued his boss for a workmen’s compensation award to pay for his wounds.
“If the boss hadn’t put me to repairing a road where all the women go past smiling,” Juan argued, “I never would have been shot for smiling back at one of them.”
“The shooting had nothing to do with Juan’s job,” the boss replied. “He was chasing after another man’s wife, and got what was coming to him. Is a wrongdoer to be protected at his employer’s expense?”