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Man survives horrendous accident with help from his faithful canines

BY SCOT ANDREW PITZER
Times Staff Writer
Published: Monday, October 6, 2008 7:48 AM EDT

Dogs, according to an old adage, are man’s best friend.

Marlin Shorb, a 64-year-old Freedom Township resident, spent a long four hours with his best friends on a blustery April afternoon following a tragic accident.

Shorb, a veteran staffer of the Gettysburg Times mail room, was cutting trees at his 56-acre farm along the 1200 block of Bullfrog Road, when the project suddenly went awry. Limbs from a 30-foot tree fell onto Shorb, knocking him to the ground shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 20.

“I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t know what was going to happen,” says Shorb, who was not carrying a cellular phone. “By daybreak, I could have been dead.” Continue reading here.


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