Abby, Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 16
My day is done ... thank you very much. I followed the armored truck over Bowen’s Hill. Sunny Corner Road.
Sunny Corner Road is a loop. Left comes out on the A-32. Right does too, but kilometers farther west. The armored truck picked up their escort, a Tiger ARH (Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter) and turned left, I turned right ... Bathurst, here I come. What ever shall I do?
Oh ... the escort.
A ‘suggestion’ from the queen... ‘for the safety of the personnel’ she is reported to have said. The Army claims it’s a ‘training exercise’ ... so the pilots can ‘keep their hand in.’ The Army gets the credit, the reserve pilots practice flying. All three of them are college graduates ... and women. This is probably the closest they’ll ever get to combat.
I pay the fuel bill. I usually watch them on their way. Another $25 thousand out of my pocket. Only twice a month though. The mine could handle a shipment everyday ... If ... big if ... I worked the crews to capacity. I won’t. I pay well and they are glad I’m back.
The State Police finally reached the bottom of the hole. Two politicians, a ‘representative’ and an elected judge were found guilty of collusion and graft. The judge had been keeping the ‘representative’ out of the public eye and the ‘representative’ was paying him. That little fiasco had cost three years production in the few weeks they were ‘in control.’
The difficulty in prosecution was caused by ‘just following orders.’ The minions got away scot free. “They didn’t Know,” said the federal judge.
When it’s me that ‘didn’t know,’ it’s ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ When it’s the government that ‘didn’t know’ ... that’s different. We should make allowances for poorly led minions.
The ‘funds’ disappeared into federal coffers ... I didn’t see a dime ... and paid court costs.
Wonderful.
All together it was Australia ... the second most corrupt country in the world. Or so I have been informed.
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