The town's only IT expert--that is, the only man who could operate anything more complicated than a '69 Chevy pick-up--sat alone in his home amidst a forest of dishes, antennae, wires, towers and blinking, flashing lights. Piled up beside him was a 'Dummies guide...' to every operating system and every code language ever invented by man.
He sucked the orange stain of cheese-its off his fingers before he set to typing.
=IF[find_saucer],sendcomm[shutdown[9}76],restart]
he hit enter and simply sat back and waited as the various wireless devices broadcast a tsunami of radio signals telling any alien saucers to shut down. He'd already sent the code in UNIX, Solaris, BSD and a whole host of other languages, the fact that extraterrestrials from beyond the stars might be using their own programming language hadn't even occurred to him, he was still reeling from the discovery that the saucers didn't use Linux.
What would shock him more was not that the alien ship really DID use one of the codes he knew, but the sheer coincidence that 'shutdown' was the word in the alien language for 'abduct.'
The hapless aliens found their ship acting on its own and firing the transmat beam directly onto the house of Vindictus, taking with him, his range of ICT equipment.
***
The aliens abducted Vindictus last night.
It is now daytime until 1800 tomorrow
There are 10 humans and 4 aliens, if you fail to catch an alien today then the next abduction will be the last (Unless they abduct the gun-nut)
Make it count, people!
You have until 1800 tomorrow to secure 8 votes.