Thirst for Death
Thirst for Death
| (18 January 2001, New Zealand) The west coast of
New Zealand is threaded with narrow, windy roads that climb and
descend the hills at improbable angles. A Christ church driver with
little patience for those dangerous curves was preparing a hot cup
of tea in her car when she learned one last lesson about respect for
the road.
Nothing, but nothing, could keep her from her afternoon tea that day. Well all right, one thing could keep her from her tea. Karma. While she was trying to brew a cuppa, her car plunged over a precipice and into a creek. The woman was found dead three days later, still holding a box of teabags, with a mug wedged against the steering wheel and a thermos of hot water beneath her feet. There were no brake marks on the road. |