Alf has been shaken not by an earthquake but by the realisation that earthquakes may be caused by nudity and piddling in places other than dunnies.
He has been alerted to this phenomenon in a troubling report from Petaling Jaya, a city not far from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
The headline grimly advises readers…
Sabah quake: Mount Kinablu may be “angry” with nudists, say locals
Then there’s this dismaying first para:
The 7.17am earthquake in Ranau may have been caused by aki (mountain protectors) angered over tourists who stripped and urinated at Mount Kinabalu.
These mountain protectors, Alf imagines, are akin to our taniwha.
This being so he will be showing much greater respect than previously, next time he meets a taniwha.