Hard Labor

82 Year Old Amish man dies from fall in Lancaster, PA.
82-year-old Oliver Yoder died Thursday night during what Pennsylvania State Police have termed a ‘typical child's game of tag’. Mr. Yoder had finished bedding his plowing oxen for the evening just an hour earlier, and had gone upstairs to go to bed. Apparently 5 to 7 Amish boys were playing a game of tag in a nearby field, when one of the boys yelled ‘Ollie, Ollie, oxen free’. In what appears to have been an unwarranted attempt to capture his ox Levi, Mr. Yoder fell approximately 15 feet from the top of his staircase, fracturing his skull on impact. He was transferred to Lancaster Memorial Hospital, but died a short time later. The boys involved, all relatives of Mr. Yoder, under Amish Law, could be sentenced to a life of hard labor.