“You scratch
my back, I'll scratch yours.”
Edward
Scissorhands* #quote
Today played
some video games and managed to not make anything explode. Anyway
onto the flash fiction!
Profiting
from Unnatural Disasters
“I'm simply
genius in more ways than one...” the mad scientist chuckled. His
black rubber gloves held stacks of money and ruffled through him. It
was his split from the latest scheme. “I'm so brilliant. I'm so
brilliant! I'M SO BRILLIANT!!!” The mad scientist laughed, the sound vibrating through the evil laboratory.
One of the ten
co-conspirators of the mad scientist rolled her eyes. And another
groaned but muffled it so the mad scientist couldn't hear him. The
co-conspirators didn't complain though. All they had to do was buy
properties and insurance and take the money.
The mad
scientist was evil, crazy and uncaring, but still able to be sane
enough in some areas to hatch a scheme. He needed ten realtor
investors to leave less of a pattern and money trail in his insurance
fraud scam. Most mad scientists may use a weather control device in a
plan to take over the world. But he chose to make money. Granted
there was collateral damage. But his co-conspirators were the worse,
greediest men and women in the buying business that they wouldn't
mind being in on a money making scheme that involved a tornado or
two.
A few knocks at
the door.
“Police, open
up, we have a warrant!”
The mad
scientist's jaw dropped. “What are the police doing here? If they
investigate here they'll find my equipment! My plan was perfect, how
did you screw it up?”
All of them
looked at each other. The married couple among the buyers looked the
most afraid. The wife spoke up. “We may have a habit of tax dodging
and smuggling. They may be thinking we're hiding things here.”
“They're here
investigating you? You fools! Tax dodging and smuggling? You've
brought the I.R.S. upon me? You'll pay for this!”
Since no one
opened the door the police broke it down. The mad scientist chose to
do crime and consort with criminals and it backfired. He is now
serving life in prison due to all the deaths from his machine.
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