Profuse apologies for my utter tardiness in getting down to writing this blogpost...
Placing needles within strawberries is surely about as low as anyone can go. Putting the veritable 'fear of God' into persons one and all, causing undue alarm and terror. And evidently - as has since been discovered following the apprehension of a confessing teenager thereabouts - it was not done, as had long been touted, as a result of a disgruntled former (strawberry-picking or the like) employee exacting his own pound of flesh upon the industry or individual employer who'd supposedly treated him poorly.
Thereby 'repaying' one and all of the innocent and ever longsuffering public-at-large for something that was none of their responsibility or doing. 'Spray and walk away' as we're inclined to refer to such behaviour in God's Own. Except the potential tragic results of the same were anything but able to be quickly or easily resiled from.
No, just a teenage lad up to no good, doing a prank or the like; out for a bit of a good time. Unreal! Welcome to our newfangled world of the witless and wacky, and moreover inadvertently wicked - for such this particular act of sabotage, of home-grown domestic terrorism surely is... .
For once my sympathies/empathy are fully with the Aussies...
Afterthought:
And no, I certainly don't classify my brother's and my frequent snowball-hurling at passing cars in the same category - though with hindsight I hardly can deny the potential awful dangers thereabouts. Whereas those people who - on a number (at least two or three, I believe) of occasions, evidently - have dropped large concrete piles or the like upon Auckland motorway drivers - and evidently, according to my Stepmum, in recent times 'succeeded' in killing someone - should, if apprehended, be tried (frankly hung, drawn and quartered), and no, not for manslaughter!
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