It was 11:30 p.m. on a dark autumn night. John and Rachel were just returning home from a night out at the theatre. On turning a sharp bend in the road, they saw car headlight shinning upwards at a crazy angle somewhere just off the road to the right of them. Then, they noticed a fresh gap in the wooden fence. John stopped the car, put on his hazard flashers, and rushed through the gap in the fence and across a ploughed field, with Rachel in pursuit.