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While they wait for the ambulance they check the house and they find lots of herbs, and also a whole pile of nip for tea.
“Take samples, Inspector Spuren, and let’s see if this is the poisonous nip.
"It is strange though” Detective Klug wonders “that the Herbal Lady would poison herself. Let’s see if we can find out where she actually got the nip.”
But the old lady is in no condition to speak, so the CCSI team decides to take a look around and see if they can figure it out for themselves.
“Look Detective” says Inspector Spuren “here are her walking shoes. They have a very distinctive sole pattern and there is a lot of clay in the crevices. We can just follow the trail from her house. Maybe it will lead us to the nip!”
And so they do. They follow the narrow trail from the herb lady's house into the forest and sure enough, after only ten minutes they come to a clearing which is covered with nip.
“That must be it” says Detective Klug. “So where does the poison come in?”
“I might have an answer to that” explains Inspector Spuren. “The lab just called, they found the manufacturer of the specific pesticide that poisoned Dr. Kroesus and most probably the old Herbal Lady too then checked their client list. The only big sale in the last several months went to the local government here.”
“So” says the Detective “let’s give them a call!”
And wouldn’t you know it, the government admitted that they were worried about some little weed upshots in their local forest and decided to just root them out. They ordered massive amounts of pesticides and sprayed the whole forest with it. Without telling anybody because they thought no one lived there, so everything would be fine.
They agreed to pay for all the medical bills for Mr. Kroesus and the old Herbal Lady who are both to be expected to recover. They will also issue a public apology and create a department for non-toxic environment management. Mr. Kroesus donated the start-up money for that. The CCSI team was honorably awarded the first of the newly created “Fighter for a Non-Toxic Environment Award”.
ENDE GUT, ALLES GUT (End Good All Good)
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Whereas this story was inspired by a true event all characters are strictly fictional and any resemblance to existing entities is totally coincidental. The ending alone is proof that this story is entirely a work of fiction! by Karl
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Mr. Paul Kroesus - Tybalt
Mrs. Kroesus - Queen Snickers
Dr. Quaksalber - Aniwa
Detective Klug - Goldie
Inspector Spuren - Billy
Paul Junior - Tintin
Eva Maria - Ayla
Maid - Sukie
Herbal Lady - Xing Lu
Cameo - Sassy
Executive Producer, Casting & Graphic Design - Sassy
Producer, Director, Graphic Design - Opus
Writer, Graphic Design, Set Designer - Karl
Graphic Design - Ruis
Advertising & Marketing Director - Momo
Costume & Fashion Designer - Asta
Kitten Control Specialist - Mrs. Oz
Repurrorter - Samatha
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