A Foolproof Plan With Fatal Flaws (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: January 30, 1999

Rain at All the Right Times

Rain it seems has come at all the right times this forwarding year. Sunshine has not been too harsh on days wher’t thought so. Tonight it rains and it rains profusely but it could have not seemed more tranquil a sight and it could not have come at a better time. This rain, that would usually ruin a night done nothing of the sorts. Even when I headed out for my first interview this year in Campbelltown and it was raining it felt so in place.

Normally rain on another day a year ago would have stressed me and pissed me off having me wish the sun come back out again. Ever since this new Summer of 99 has started every single day has been perfect, no matter if rain or shine. Each day seemed to be a perfect form of itself and each day I reaped the most reward regardless of the elements.

Now, getting back to the text I was writing in my last Diary entry and tonight to hopefully finish off my chronology, let’s speak of the rest of Thursday. You know, ever so slowly I am gaining day per day upon my chronology and now I am only a day and a half behind. Once this half a day is finished I have only the most recent day to speak of and there shouldn’t be much there to tie me back, that’s the truth…

Home After the Petrol Station

Now I was speaking about being at Burmah Petrol Station visiting Imad and being near the end of that whole event I’ll move on now. Ralf, Keith and I jumped back into Ralf’s car and from there we basically headed back home. Keith’s car was at my house so the both of us were dropped off there. Saying goodbye to Ralf around 10:30 p.m. both Keith and I headed into my house because he didn’t want to end the night.

While I had myself something to eat that my mum had cooked up for me previously Keith watched television. When I had eaten all up I was geared to go but Keith wanted to watch part of Sports Tonight before we left. Giving him the benefit of the doubt up to one commercial he told me how it has been months since he’s watched this show. Watching the Cricket scandal I turned the television off and bringing my old puff daddy CD single with me we headed out.

A Call From Phoenix

Our destination for the rest of Thursday night was not certain but as we were driving Keith received a call by Phoenix. Now, remember I noted that Keith pranked Phoenix one or more hours beforehand and tonight I found out from both Ralf and Shawn that everyone knows Phoenix calls someone back who pranks them. Keith knew what game he was playing at when he pranked Phoenix and he wanted her to call back.

While they talked Keith found out the whole story from her point of view on what happened. Basically they were lying in the same bed together and then all of a sudden Simon opened up his mouth and said “I want to fuck you.” Phoenix didn’t know what to do as he touched her body so she just walked out and asked Lucas for a lift home.

Keith also chatted about her ignoring both him and Noah and invited her up to see Noah in April if she wanted to go along. On top of that Keith invited Phoenix out with all of them whenever she wanted to give them a call so basically, he was sucking up her ass for a root. When will Keith ever learn that what he’s doing is wrong. Will Keith get married to Tamsen and keep fucking Phoenix on the side, it’s a possibility…

A Night Drive to Liverpool

Picking up Shawn after midnight but having called him from my house we knew that he would be out the front waiting. Letting him sit in the back seat we all asked each other for ideas on what to do for the night. Nothing came up but I announced that I didn’t want to head out to ‘Subway’ because it was becoming too frequent of a hangout. Instead, I suggested something out of Campbelltown, something like Liverpool where we could explore and find something new. Keith seemed to agree with my idea and he informed us that he would only go as far as Liverpool and that was it.

The trip to Liverpool was fairly conversation orientated and it didn’t fare much different in Liverpool as there was no place to stop or attract our eyes. Liverpool we found was more dead than Campbelltown and after a huge circle of Liverpool we headed back to Campbelltown, the scenic route. Unfortunately we headed towards Subway but to our surprise it was closed at 1:30 a.m. Because of that we headed to the Road Pantry at Leumeah as Keith wanted to buy some small Pizzas from there.

Road Pantry and an Old Rival

While he was inside ordering this dick head Lebanese guy that looked like a smart ass jumped into his falcon and while driving past us said “I’m going to steal those mags, I’m going to take them.” Shawn and I just stood around not really paying attention to him but as he was leaving I said to him “I’m going to steal your mum.” He didn’t do shit about that but then again was I loud enough to hear, well yes.

Keith brought out the Pizzas and we delved into them, my hunger was gone. While eating our Pizza we heard a loud backfire and seeing the car pass us we noticed it was Ali in his RX7. Having a good little laugh we thought it was funnier when his car sounded like a silenced lawn mower. It was in this span of time very early in the morning that we started devising a fool proof plan to cheat the system.

A Foolproof Plan on Paper

It started when Shawn informed us he was looking into barcodes and he was trying to figure out the code in which they work to one day be able to freak with them and use them to his benefit. The plan now we understand will not work but in the heart of the conversation that night we were bent on the plan working, it was fool proof. Basically it revolved around Keith printing out key details of Credit Cards that enter his hands when he is working with Eftpos.

With those details we were going to open an account under a dummy name and then with all details at hand, have money transferred from a Credit Card account to our dummy account. Keith informed me that you could get a statement account from Commonwealth Bank through the mail without even having to send identification. Hopefully with good luck we could get that statement account changed to a keycard account where the real transactions can begin. This way we only get seen by cameras outside for which we can easily disguise ourselves. We would use the phone banking system to transfer funds from one account to another but we came upon our first drawback and last trial there.

We drove to my house with these hopes in our minds that we could divert money from Keith’s Credit Card to my keycard account. If that could be done then Keith certainly could get accounts done from over his counter. The first problem became evident when we realized you need a password for the account you are taking money out of to use it. The second problem was that you couldn’t transfer funds from one person’s account to another but only from your own accounts to each other.

So that was our hopes quashed of gaining easy money. The funny thing about it was that Keith was already trying to work out where his money would go. “This would be great if it works” he boasted, “I could pay off my Credit Card, buy my new car system and save a couple of grand.” That’s when I set Keith straight in saying “Firstly, if we’re going to do this we’re not to rush into it so the bills you have to pay off now won’t matter.

These bills would have been long paid before we start paying these fake accounts and by then you will have new bills to pay.” Get rich schemes are getting harder to find and corrupting the system is equally as hard. Every month we come up with something new and I hope that one day these plans will come alive for us to cheat the system big without getting caught.

Old Prank Tapes at Dawn

For the rest of the time at my house I started showing Shawn the radio pranks we had done a night or two beforehand, he thought they were excellent. Showing them also the computer edit we put together when we rang Phoenix’s house and got her brother. On top of that we showed the Lebanese voice I said then sped up. Keith started to get hyped up with all these funny things he was hearing and wanted to do some early morning pranks.

The time was 4:00 a.m. and I knew that I definitely didn’t want to be using the phone to wake up my parents. Therefor I informed them that I had a tape of me and Jett from ages ago doing funny shit on cassette tape. This tape must have been at least seven or so years old, it was very old and funny. Shawn was finding it funnier than Keith but they soon because a little bored as you could see it in Keith’s face and you could see it while Shawn was playing ‘Patience’ with himself.

Before Keith left and while we were still talking about taking advantage of the system Keith informed me of how he took out almost $1000 from that Eftpos machine at work that he was going to get $50 out for me. Since then they have fixed the machine because it was getting on Keith’s conscience, he didn’t want to get fired again for being an idiot.