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Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'
Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'
Cueball wrote a script that searches online shopping sites for items that cost US$1 with free shipping. Because the script is programmed to use an account with a $365 balance, this script will buy one random item per day for a full year. Megan comments that Cueball might just end up with "lots of crap" but he replies that he might get something interesting.
Over five days the script orders a length of rubber hose, a ski mask, a bear trap, a map of The Pentagon and "lube" (sexual lubrication). This pattern prompts Cueball to stop the script out of fear of being placed on a FBI watch list; to a paranoid passerby, the purchased items make Cueball look like a terrorist who plans to kidnap and torture federal employees. And also a pervert.
In the title text a sixth item is sent, a bobcat. This is a reference to 325: A-Minus-Minus where Black Hat delivered a bobcat instead of a chair.
"Every FBI watch list ever" was also referenced in the Expensive Shoe Box chapter of What If? 2.