Clock - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:29:57 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Clock - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Church clocks can be dangerous https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/11/15/giant-hand-falls-church-clock-tower/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:20:20 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=89280 It is a well known fact that you shouldn't walk under a ladder. Now it seems you should not loiter under church towers. A 20-kilogram minute hand has fallen off a clock on a Hamburg' St Katharinen church tower, plunging 130 feet onto the footpath. No one was hurt. Fire officials checked the remaining hour Read more

Church clocks can be dangerous... Read more]]> It is a well known fact that you shouldn't walk under a ladder. Now it seems you should not loiter under church towers.

A 20-kilogram minute hand has fallen off a clock on a Hamburg' St Katharinen church tower, plunging 130 feet onto the footpath.

No one was hurt. Fire officials checked the remaining hour hand on the clock and determined that it was firmly in place. Source

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