Suspicious Activity Report - SAR
Categories: Ethics/Morals, Tech
A 6-foot-tall squid (who could walk) was trundling past the Starbucks at the airport. It left a slippery slime behind it. And as the cameras traced it leaving a box in the middle of the floor near the boarding gate line, right in the middle of hundreds of passengers...that box ticked. So it kept sliming along, and then the security guard could see that one of its tentacles was being used to shoplft a People Magazine. That was it; the guard hit the buzzer for a suspicious activity report and called in his brethren on their segways to glide over there and get that squid to pay for his People.
The paperwork behind it? Yes, a suspicious activity report. And those happen on Wall Street all the time. The week before 9/11, loads and loads of shares behind all of the travel stocks were shorted aggressively. They were done by overseas accounts, many in Switzerland, and the terrorists made bank, knowing that stocks like Carnival and Viking and others would be crushed in a world afraid to travel. So they covered when the market reopened, and had reacted around 9/20 or so. And bad things happened.
