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Article: Trapped in mall - send help
- Article from:
- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- December 27, 2008
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The caving rescue squad was one digit away from a callout. I had
groped my way along a cavernous passageway in an Auckland shopping
mall, towards what appeared to be a shaft of natural light, when it
came to an abrupt end in the garish sparkle of a discount jewellery
store.
I was exhausted, bruised, claustrophobic and more than a little
frightened by an eerie noise welling up behind me. A sound as though
the very earth had wrenched an arthritic joint. A sound that rasped
through eardrums like jagged glass. A sound no mortal should hear
unsedated.
Then I recognise it as the screech of violins being tortured by
young buskers playing Christmas carols.
That's when I pulled out the cellphone ...