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This installment is called Protest.

We dressed up in business garb, so we looked like developers who were coming to bid on properties at the auction.

And we had prepared these special envelopes. They just looked like padded mailing envelopes, but we had these

little special mesh screens to allow ventilation and each of us had a thousand crickets in them. The auction was held in the auditorium at one

police plaza and in the police headquarters and we had gone, so we had gone down a couple of us first to check and see if the exoskeleton showed up on the x-ray machine.

And we went down and we went through the security and it was fine, you know, it didn't show up on the x-ray but

then on the train coming back the crickets got out and they started crawling up my

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