Road wash

I thought blessing grit was about as odd as road related things could get but it looks like I was wrong.

Yesterday a special police convoy carrying Maori elders sprayed 10,000 litres of Waikato River water on SH1 and SH2 in a bid to free the spirits of crash victims.

Which has me wondering how they were trapped (or, indeed, what evidence there is for there been "spirits" in the first place).

Dick Waihi, iwi liaison officer for the Counties-Manukau police district, today said the operation had been successful.

I wonder how you measure how many spirits were released?