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.

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

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

>paid people to slash them so they’d get more business

Charlie Chaplin did it first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqhtBPd4VQ

My "favorite" story: BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes' <https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...>

You use the term “favorite” (with scare quotes) a lot in your comments. What do you mean by that term exactly? You also said that people thinking Trump Jr. was a co-conspirator in the riots was your “favorite”. You also said that the “world is healing” in response to WaPo removing their “democracy dies in darkness” tagline. Do you oppose democracy?

Those appear to be sarcastic quotes, not scare quotes.

I thought scare quotes are sarcastic quotes?

Eat a curb, fashie

Fun fact: Michael Healy in the second photo lives in Larry Ellison’s old house in Oakland. He also has a book on Amazon.