{"id":173506,"date":"2024-11-20T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=173506"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:36","slug":"good-place-to-bury-a-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/11\/20\/good-place-to-bury-a-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Good place to bury a corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that my exchange is over, I am doing a tour of Tasmania. There are thirteen of us on a bus. The tour guide says that some social mixing will make the trip even more fun. I ask a German lady next to me if she has seen a lot of wildlife in Australia. She tells me she saw snakes in the wild and also in the zoo.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI did feel more comfortable in the zoo than when I saw that wild snake, because in the zoo there was glass between me and the venomous snake and therefore, he could not pose an immediate threat. In the wild, that glass is not there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, right, indeed\u201d, I respond.<\/p>\n

The Indian boy behind me tells about life in India: \u201cI only know a few recipes, other than that I can\u2019t really cook. But that\u2019s because it\u2019s so normal to hire cooks. In India everyone has a cook and a cleaner.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a brief silence, I respond: \u201cExcept for the people who are hired as cooks or cleaners it seems to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy thinks for a moment. \u201cNo, they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

We arrive at large sand dunes. At the top, we have a view of the sea. \u201cWho knows where you\u2019ll end up if you swim in a straight line from here? I\u2019ll give you a hint, you\u2019ll go under South Africa!\u201d The group\u2019s unanimous guess is New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s Brazil!\u201d, the tour guide says.<\/p>\n

After briefly checking Google Maps, I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s Argentina. I show the map to the tour guide. After inspecting it carefully, he says, \u201cI don\u2019t know if what you say is correct though, it could also be Chile.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tour guide says several times that these dunes are a pretty good place to bury a corpse. I tell him about a good method to hide a dead body. \u201cYou dig a deep hole. That\u2019s where you dump the body. Above that you then bury a fairly large dead animal. When search dogs find the body, the police dig up a dead animal and they continue the search.\u201d<\/p>\n

A little later on the bus, he asks passengers for their attention through a microphone. \u201cOnno just told us about a very interesting way to hide a dead body!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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