Re: How to delay a moving van?
- From: Bill Swears <wswears@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:16:40 -0900
Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
She arrives in LA and is told by the landlady that the moving
company called; something has happened to the van and it won't be
able to arrive till spring. (It's now about November.) I'd
originally thought "excessive snowfall in Donner Pass or
somewhere," but Hal insists that that wouldn't work, that the
Highway Patrol does not allow major routes across the mountains to
be closed all winter (barring avalanches et cetera), and that
anyway there are alternate routes. His initial remark was, "Do
you want the driver to survive?" When I said "Yes," he said,
"Then it can't be done."
The truck was seized by DEA/Homeland security because of somebody else's cargo. During the unpacking, a portion of the goods proved to be unlabeled, so the entire shipment was seized. DEA/Homeland security is real sorry, but their contractor who separates these sorts of things is swamped, and won't be able to access the shipment until the end of January, oops, February, oops, May. Whatever. In the meantime, the goods are sitting in a security shipping warehouse in Gulfport, Florida. Nobody but a designated security service authorized to maintain a chain of custody is allowed any access for fear of contaminating the illicit cargo. When she finally gets the boxes, several of them have been sitting, wet, in a warehouse for all those months, and have grown blue mold with hairlike tendrils. (don't ask).
Bill
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