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COLUMBA / TRANSMISSION 01 / 0:58
The bird was a budget line
17 accounts. 16 pigeons. The discrepancy is the beginning.
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KEEP THE SOURCE ATTACHED / FILE 01
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The first document did not
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say surveillance.
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It said external surface
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renewal.
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Seventeen units.
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A useful-life adjustment.
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I assumed street furniture.
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Then I opened the attachment.
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The drawing had wings.
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Not a camera attached to
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a pigeon.
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The entire pigeon had a
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replacement schedule.
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The public inventory called it
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wildlife.
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The contractor called it an
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asset.
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And the technician could find
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only sixteen bodies for
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seventeen active accounts.
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The missing unit was still
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available, according to the
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report.
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Think about that sentence.
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The pigeon was absent.
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The service was successful.
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Somebody had replaced a missing
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machine with a very convincing
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paragraph.
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Before we ask who benefits,
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ask what, exactly, they were
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buying.
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