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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.


The profit motive always incentiveses this sort of innovation and efficiency when it comes to making more profit.


Under $50 per cushion repair in today’s money seems super cheap!


Genius Business Plan. Make repairs too cheap for competitors to be interested and drive up volume with criminal conspiracy


Big Cushion would defeat you at every step




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