NYSE Security - The Real Deal !

This email - sent to me by a friend of a friend who works at the NYSE - is just too funny to keep to myself.

-----Original Message-----
From: curtis swain [mailto: xxx]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:45 PM
To: friends
Subject: hello from the number one target in the good ole' U S of A
!!!!!

Hey everybody!!!

Its me, your friend in arms, Curtis Bey/Swain.

Just figured i'd drop everyone a line since i can't walk outside of my building without several dozen news crew cameras zooming in on me picking my nose. Yeah, yeah, yeah...i heard the talk about how the terrorists desire to destroy the NYSE...and yes its true, i am hunkered down in the middle of it all, so let me school you to what i see here.

After sep 11...the NYSE took total control of the streets surounding the building two to thre blocks in every direction. Currently, these streets no longer allow cars to travel on. so the truck bomb idea, nice, but i cant see it happening. I watched as the NYSE spent 30 million doing a James Bond number to the streets that are close to the building. James Bond you say? Check this out....

At the corner of Broadway and wall st. the street was ripped up and work was done...took about a month...watched them place tubes and platforms in the ground....run cables and even build a little hut...finally i had ot ask..so i did, and found out: At the top of the block (wall and b'way)..they have five tubes placed
inot the sidewalk....if desired a button is pushed these rise up to fast for me to explain...the are designed to do two things....if you are driving on top of them, your car will be flipped over. if you drive inot them..your car will be totalled...(coooool!!!!!)

okay, lets say you get past them....they have a plate placed intothe street damn near the width of the street. this has only one job.....it pops up faster than the desire
that you have for someone leaves when you see they have the nastiest feet...anyway...this plate will stop a 30 ton...(thats right 30 tons) truck traveling at 70 miles an hour (now thats real cool).....

also the NYSE has its own version of a private police force....9mm, and flack jackets....and they have so many and they are here so long, that they have barracks here in the building. Now since that isnt enough to have you rown police force, they also have two more security teams in place....the bulk of which are strapped....the NYSE also knows how to deal w/the city of NY and offers free lunch to all police
officers....so the building is ful off real hungry cops...24 hours a day...and you know as well as i, one of the only things that excites an officer more than a person of color on the new jersey turnpike in a late model car.....is a free meal.....yeah, i know what your thinking, "Curtis, when guilani was in office they wound up punishing cops that took free gifts including food".....yeah true....but the last head of the exchange also walked off with a retierment package of 100million....thats wrong..it was a couple buks over that...but hey, once you have a hundred' mill in the bank..who exact do you need to be? the point is money alters rules...so free food for everybody....just carry a gun on your hip.

also, for the record....if you are within a three block area in any direction of this building....trust me, you are on camera.....and not those 7-11 joints..where the police show up to get hte tape and the vcr's been in the back broke for six years....naw, kid...state of the art!!!! bootleggers quality!!! ya heard me!!!????

between the 2 ton planters randomly placed in the streets and sidewalks...and various other do-hickies.....no way are you gettng a car bomb near the building...(next time ill tell you about the 24 hour a day .three car two motorcycle random stop on "BROADWAY")so relax.....besides.....i'm too deep in debt for anythig to happen...america express will be livid if they dont get there money.

You think they are going to just let that happen???