jingl This wasn't the first time I had reported an occasional faint smell of gas in the house but this was the first time it had been located as coming up through drains in the cellar, which meant it was a mains leakage.
But putting aside the my public service. It was seeing the utter chaos outside, hearing all the reports on the radio and the talk on the buses and in the street for weeks after and nursing in my bosom the knowledge that my phone call had been the catalyst for the chaos. I could have rung my local radio station, told them the part I played in the event, got my photo in the papers, but I didn't, I just kept quiet and gave a secret smile every time someone mentioned all the problems they had had and described the chaos. The sense of power it engendered in me, as I said, quite horrified me.
I suspect that is this secret sense of power that impells these trolls. None of them want to come out and talk big when they are discovered.