Part 3
Unforeseen Consequences
Strangely the mystery of the ‘flying video’ was never solved, not even by the Flying Squad who were unable to come to a conclusion despite spending two days studying the material very thoroughly.
But just as a stone thrown into a pond sends out ripples, so that simple gift from James Peabody had set off a chain reaction that altered people’s lives forever.
Prunella Attrill was surprised but pleased when Dr Attrill strode manfully home that night carrying a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs.
Miss Witherspoon was inspired to write fantasy novels (under a pseudonym) and married her publisher who found her most refreshing and said how disillusioned he had become producing such books as ‘How to create a cardboard Zen garden in suburbia’.
The vicar and his wife became more adventurous and nine months after ‘The Day of the Flying Video’ as it became known in the village, their seventh child was born. Tongues wagged and the butcher was heard to mutter “If you ask me he has done more than his fair share of begetting already.”
Constable Ardent though was arrested for copying material likely to cause a breach of the peace and was used as an example of police corruption to new members of the force. After they had reviewed the evidence. Several times of course.