Once obtaining the ledger, he purchased a box of cigars and headed straight for Cape Kennedy where he knew Spacex was preparing to send a capsule to Mars and one of the crew was female. He knew he would be able to convince them to let him join the crew and besides, this was the only opportunity he would ever have to get away from ......
all those that treat him a doofus!! This was going to be his only chance to.........
Wake up. BAM! WAKE UP! BAM! WAKE UP! BAM! "I'm awake," he thought as he (BAM!) came back to consciousness. BAM! Suddenly he realized (BAM!) it was still 1990, and (BAM!) there were AT&T corporate police (BAM!) busting down his door. "Hmm (BAM!) maybe spending all night (BAM!) trying to crack AT&T System 4 (BAM!) wasn't such a good idea." (BAM!)
End of Story!!
End of the "Dream" story that is, All that BANGING had awakened him and now he had to deal with reality. Someone was banging on the door. He jumped out of bed, put on his robe, grabbed a cigar, ran to the door and when he opened it, standing there was . . . . . . .
On 10/20/2022 8:01 PM, ABLE1 wrote: > On 10/20/2022 9:26 PM, Jim Davis wrote: >> On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 5:39:44 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote: >>> On 10/19/2022 3:55 PM, ABLE1 wrote: >>>> On 10/19/2022 3:15 PM, Jim Davis wrote: >>>>> On Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 12:58:40 PM UTC-4, RTS wrote: >>>>>> On 10/18/2022 9:08 PM, ABLE1 wrote: >>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 9:15 PM, Jim Davis wrote: >>>>>>>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 8:27:54 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 12:06 PM, Jim Davis wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 11:19:12 AM UTC-4, Bob La Londe >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 5:27 AM, ABLE1 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/17/2022 10:54 PM, Jim Davis wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 10:29:49 PM UTC-4, Jim Davis >>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 3:28:15 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe >>>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/17/2022 11:45 AM, ABLE1 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/17/2022 11:34 AM, RTS wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
... hold all of earth for ransom with his giant space laser of doom.
.. was his trusty steed. An old shovel head with drag pipes. Not the most inconspicuous escape vehicle but fast enough and decent in the turns with its sticky sport bike tires. He grabbed his saddlebags preloaded with VHS tapes, compact VCR, and acoustic modem as he headed out the door to ...
get in his getaway vehicle. He was however, wondering how the hell did his vehicle knock at the door? But ---- O well, He was now on a quest to bring his VHS technology to sell it to Elon Musk for use in Tesla automobiles, Little did he know that Elon didn't vote for him and also he hated him for what he did to his cousin Monica. Consequently, as he pulled up to the gate at the Tesla headquarters - - -
He realized that he forgot to bring along his security ID. As he approached the gate he decided it would be best to go back and get it. So it did a quick 180!! And as luck would have it......
There was a demonstration occurring outside the gate by southern border immigrants who were protesting against not being employed at the Tesla factory at high wage levels that would compensate them for being immigrants. They pulled him out of his car and began crowd surfing him from one side of the crowd to the other until finally
... he spotted a drop box for Epic Video rentals. What better place to quickly hide...
That is when he then realized he must be in Arizona. But, he thinks, if I am in Arizona, then that must mean that.........
Danger Mouse was happy to have just watched the Cowboys beat the Bills
52-17, but he was tiring of the after game wrap up pundits flapping their jaws so he popped in a video he'd picked up from Epic Video earlier in the day. He was pissed when he realized the tape just played noise... "Wait a minute. That kinda sounds like an old acoustic modem." He fast forwarded. There was hours of it. "I wonder..." he thought. He kept blipping ahead until near the end of the tape he found a short video recording."Hi, My name is John. If you are seeing this video AT&T Corporate Police or the Secret Service probably got me. Please read the data on this tape and share it with the world. Its a simple 300 baud 8+1 ASCII recorded using my acoustic modem. Its a copy of..." KZZZRKT and then there was ordinary white noise to the end of the tape.
After watching the video he started to laugh and laugh and laugh....... He could not stop. The laugh was uncontrollable, tears started to form in his eyes but the laughing could not be stopped!! He decided to try and think of sad moment but the laughing just continued. It kept up for hours and hours. He tried to figure what he saw on the video was so funny, but could not!!! Then he tried to.......
... stop this excruciating pain in his chest. As he collapsed to the floor the last thought through his mind before all function ceased was, "I bet that guy was for real."
Weeks later when somebody finally found his body surrounded by old pizza boxes and empty Jolt cola cans the local cop who got stuck with rotting corpse detail couldn't help but wonder why in the hell a secret service agent was poking around in his investigation, and "who the hell are those guys sitting out in the AT&T van?"
It was finally decided by the local cop that there were more important things to do. So he closed the file and placed it in the archives bin.
End of The Story!!
For Danger Mouse it certainly was. With a lazy cop putting away a case with obvious headache factors it resulted in a closed file for a "death by natural causes." The corner didn't even give it a second look. Not only did he not find the chemical remnants of Digitalis he never even looked. Of course if he hadn't been in a big rush to get off to lunch he might have noticed the small pin prick on the neck of his patient.
... is it truly over? What was the big deal about System 4? What was on the tape? Who killed Danger Mouse? Where is the tape? What about the other tapes John had? WHERE IS JOHN?
... maybe we will never know, and maybe somebody else will pick up the trail. Stay tuned until next week at the same Bat Time on the same Bat Station.
In spite of the fact that the local police dropped the ball in the investigation of this event, as the secret service took over the investigation, they came across the video tape in the VHS player that the local police had missed, Even though the machine was off, they saw that the recorder was set to continuous play. Sending the tape to the lab for examination it showed nothing but a screen with hish-hash and audio static. It was puzzling - - - - why would someone put a tape with nothing on it in a VCR and have it play continuously? After weeks of testing, someone had the idea to play the tape backwards and much to their surprise it was a video of a SUV riding down a street in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background. As the SUV came past the camera, it picked up speed and as it ran into the Glass Pyramid of the Louve, it exploded into a great ball of fire completely destroying the dome.. Unnoticed by the investigators, off to the side of the video picture, a lone figure dressed in black was standing off to the side watching the whole event while talking on a cell phone (which unknown to them was a AT&T cellphone). . He slowly turned and walked towards and entered a awaiting Bentley limousine which headed in the direction of
On 10/29/2022 11:08 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
the Pont du Carrousel bridge across the Seine River. The Secret Service then pulled up a map of Paris and notice that this was in the direction of the Latin Quarter. They also realized that this was the one time that Castro was on vacation in Paris and was staying in a hotel in the Latin Quarter. The hotel was one of the best, the Les Rives de Notre-Dame. They then contacted Interpol and inquired about cameras that would be located near the hotel. They then got access and found a camera located at the alley next to the Les Rives de Notre-Dame Hotel. They found the approximate time stamp and observed the same Bentley limousine pulling in at the main entrance. The man observed at the Louvre got out of the car but due to the poor lighting from the IR on the camera is was not possible to make out a face. However, it did walk with a noticeable limp. He was meet at the door by what appeared to be a rather large male also wearing dark clothing. The two entered the building. The Secret Service officers then looked at the Bentley and tried to view the license plate number. But again the lighting was very poor. All the could determine was that it was a custom plate not the standard issue. As best they could guess the first letter was a "V" and the last letter "D". With all the magic technology they had they could not get it any clearer. They were totally frustrated. What to do, what to do...............
Slowly as if a fog was lifting from his brain Agent Bean had an odd thought, "What manner of VooDoo or witchcraft is this? VHS is analog. How would playing it backward show any different than a reverse of playing it forward." It was like falling in a dream or dreaming about a fight were the reality is so intense you physically strike out. He snapped awake and thought, "I really should review that tape."
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