A young man looked out his lounge room window in Melbourne’s outer suburb of Broadmeadows, and stared in disbelief at snow. Switching on the TV, he heard the panicked broadcasters and panicked himself. Racing to get in his worked-up car, he slid on iced steps and fell, landing head first and knocking himself unconscious. A neighbor, seeing what happened, slowly and carefully moved to check on him. Taking the keys from the young man’s hand, the neighbor helped himself to the car. Having moved carefully on foot, he now forgot everything but leaving. Backing out the driveway at speed and without looking, he got t-boned by a truck racing up the street, by a driver desperate to get home and check on his family. Shunting the car out of the way, the truck kept going. On the footpath, the young man froze to death. In the car, the neighbor was killed instantly on impact. The truck driver drove on, oblivious to everything but the need to get home. But at the speeds he was driving, he had no chance, steering around a corner and sliding straight forwards, crashing into the service station on the corner, plowing over petrol bowsers and spewing petrol across the freezing ground. amazon/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=frozen+below&sprefix=frozen+below%2Caps%2C1834
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:55:46 +0000