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Friday, 03 September 2010

Daily Installment of Coffee Joe, by Jim O'Connor

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So we are sneaking all kinds of illegal goods right under Verizon's and GEICO's watchful eye. What kind of 'big-brother' idiots at Verizon and GEICO would miss such a large target of contraband? Doesn't the Verizon and GEICO submergible robots catch the movement? She told me "not so far". She went on to say she didn't think the Verizon and GEICO robots were very smart technology. This was quite a story. I asked her why did someone on the Nevada side of the lake take it upon them self to install this massive cable. I would think that would have been very expensive. Ahsu said, "I really don't know for sure, but I think it simply had something to do with Americans helping Americans. Besides they make a pretty good profit off the stuff they sell." "So how are the goods normally transported from the lake to here?" I asked. "Well first off, some stuff in put into fake containers. For example, if coffee would be put into a can that would normally contain decaffeinated coffee. However, they purposely damage the can so that it can be identified by anyone in the chain. These types of items can be directly delivered to anyone, because they are so well hidden. If you try to get too much stuff through this way, someone will catch on. Besides that, with items such as fresh meat, you wouldn't be able to put them any real kind of fake container. So, this stuff is trucked directly here from Lake Tahoe. The cover here is the person in Tahoe makes a run to San Francisco every couple of weeks. We used to schedule this to time it for when our street cameras were out for maintenance, so the truck could make a quick stop here without being detected, then continue on to the bay area. The way we made our deliveries around the city was pretty much the same. Deliver at a time when the cameras are out, so no one ever detects a pattern of our deliveries." I was pretty amazed by the whole thing. Especially the cable running under the Lake. I guess most inventions were born out of need, and this was no exception. I could see how the operation was messed up by not having the maintenance schedule, but that just made me real curious to know how did they get it before and why they couldn't get it anymore? Ahsu told me that someone got careless. The person I replaced got caught hacking into the Central Computer and is now at Folsom Prison. "Oh, great!" I told her. "Why didn't you tell me that before?" She just said that it didn't matter anyway because he was caught trying to hack into the system from his home. The officials had no idea what he was using the schedule for. "And while we're talking about such things, when you get time, I want you to get him out of prison." I laughed. "I'm serious as a heart attack!" she said.