at least have the niceties to say, like, this is a robbery.

No, they felt fully empowered, you know.

And so they ended up paying inflated payments to their own services.

So fire and medical and the county services all got paid.

And all of that was overkill for our event.

They had too many people, too much equipment.

It was all inflated.

But the basics of it is still there.