The dateline was Sydney, Australia in the N.Y. Times July 23. A 20 foot shipping container holding 462 cases of expensive Shiraz wine toppled from a fork lift and shattered on a warehouse floor. The winemaker, Sparky Marquis, of Mollydooker Wines in South Australia was quoted "When they opened up the container, they said it was like a murder scene - there was red everywhere." Curiously, both Sparky and his wife Sarah are both left-handed and the word "Mollydooker" is Australian slang for "lefty". Amid the sea of shiraz and broken glass, there was one tantalizing consolation - "It smelled phenomenal" said Sparky. Somebody should remind him that it's a right handed world - but certainly not sinister.
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