Conversation in Bar Code

(more mad creative writing!)

Transcript of a conversation, recorded by operatives of MIX, in Bar Code a fashionable cafe in Stockport (if that's not a contradiction in terms). The conversation is between two men. The eldest is Jonathan Swift (believed to be a non de plume) [see FX/22/25/mr/2409] and a younger man known as Max.[FX/25/209/tr/2122]

- The backlash when it started was slow at first. There was only limited and sporadic action by Peds [cyclist's slang for pedestrians] and Moots [motorists]. A few slashed tires or a few tacks scattered on a cycle path, or an occasional punch up or an attempt to run a cyclist off the road. A damned nuisance but nothing that serious. But then with the formation of PAC [Pedestrians Against Cyclists] and MAG [Motorists against Cyclists] groups and then they started working together. It got more serious and injuries to cyclists happened more and more, and bikes began to be trashed on a regular basis. And then there was the first death - Donald Drake - remember him?
- Yes.
- There was no holding them back. After that CAPAM [Cyclists Against Pedestrians and Motorists] was formed and the revenge squads went into action. But, you know, the worse lot were the Dark Cyclists-
- Do they really exists?
- Of course they do. Who do you think it was who torched Ellesmere Port?
- But that was an accident surely?
- No way. An accident was what the authorities wanted us to believe.
- Oh.
- And then there was the bomb-
- Bomb?
- Yes bomb. Come on surely you don't believe everything put out by the BMC [British Media Corporation]?
- No but... who can you believe?
- A good question.
- So do the Dark Cyclists still exist?
- Of course they do - they were one of the 19 [reference to the 19 groups that formed the so called virtual government]
- Oh, I don't remember seeing them listed.
- No of course not they were secretly part of CAPAM.
-Oh.
- Yes oh.
-Fancy another?
- No, I must be off.

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