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Speaking of BART, this story is priceless: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bart-seat-slasher-hurwitz-service-systems-inc-14544785.php https://www.sfgate.

• defrost 2y ago
  I love these kinds of true snippets of general security history: It was estimated that "possibly 85 percent of the more than 7,000 BART train cushions damaged since August 1979" was the work of this company, the Examiner reported at the time. All said and done, BART had paid the company $115,000 for the repairs, a total of about $339,128 in today's money. Always follow the money.
  • gdudeman 2y ago
    Under $50 per cushion repair in today’s money seems super cheap!
    • nasmorn 2y ago
      Genius Business Plan. Make repairs too cheap for competitors to be interested and drive up volume with criminal conspiracy
      • tomcam 2y ago
        Big Cushion would defeat you at every step
  • stuaxo 2y ago
    The profit motive always incentiveses this sort of innovation and efficiency when it comes to making more profit.
• TMWNN 2y ago
  My "favorite" story: BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes' <https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...>
  • marxisttemp 2y ago
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    • TMWNN 2y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSpOrimkMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSpOrimkMY
      • deleted 2y ago
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      • marxisttemp 2y ago
        Eat a curb, fashie
    • zdragnar 2y ago
      Those appear to be sarcastic quotes, not scare quotes.
      • jjj123 2y ago
        I thought scare quotes are sarcastic quotes?
• fsckboy 2y ago
  >paid people to slash them so they’d get more business Charlie Chaplin did it first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqhtBPd4VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqhtBPd4VQ
• diffset 2y ago
  Fun fact: Michael Healy in the second photo lives in Larry Ellison’s old house in Oakland. He also has a book on Amazon.