So there was this wine bottle

brought home to the US from WW2. The vet stored it in a closet and forgot about it. Sometime in the early 1970s he learned more about it and was happy he hadn't drank any of it. It had been bottled by slave laborers from the camps and allegedly many of those bottles had been poisoned with some variety of Agua Tofina as a last act of revenge against their SS executioners. Some authorities were made aware of the existence of the bottle and at least one government in the 70s made an immediate offer to purchase the bottle for a museum, if it was unopened with the seal intact. A really good price.

The vet declined and instead years later his child inherited that and other old wines and brandies. They were moved from the storage location and placed in a key locked cabinet purchased explicitly for them in another place.

Decades later the vet's child had a grown house guest. Yhe house guest was shown the cabinet and explicitly told, do not under any circumstances unlock this cabinet or drink any of these. The now grown child of the veteran did not know the house guest was an alcoholic. A month later the vet's child needed a cork screw and remembered there was one in the cabinet.

A search of the key rings did not locate the key. Instead the once locked cabinet was found to be full of empty bottles. Calling the house guest who had left a week earlier disclosed both the new location of the (worthless) key and also obtained an admission the house guest had taken the key and drank everything while the veteran's child was at work.

The police were contacted but advised because the house guest had run of the house, it could be argued this was not a theft. Since then all sorts of medical problems have beset the one time guest.

The pancreas has failed and been removed. So too her gall bladder. She vomits strange colors and blood. Cysts have been removed from her liver and her lungs. Her menstrual blood turned orange and the ovaries were removed too. Currently although still in her 30s and unable to eat much uric acid crystals have built up in her joints and gout too has been diagnosed. Every day is pain.

The child of the veteran feels bad about it, but notes great economic harm was done by the thefts. The child of the veteran is also of the opinion that a key locked cabinet along with an order to not touch those bottles was all common sense should have required to prevent the consumption. Her opinion is whichever poison was in the bottle has already been metabolized and although testing has not shown anything clearly something still poisoned 70 years later.

The wages of sin are said to be death. This may be a clear example of this. My thought is when the host says do not touch or consume this, and even key locks the cabinet, the ignoring of the instruction was simply an act of great stupidity.