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forklifts_stop.mdwn
 1  INT. HUGE WAREHOUSE - DAY
 2  =========================
 3  
 4  Inside a huge central warehouse with packaged foodstuffs, everything
 5  from flour and sugar to tins of SPAM and bottles of soda, on big crates
 6  piled on shelves, up to thirty feet high, several dozen forklifts are
 7  busily moving things around.
 8  
 9  At the strike of noon, the forklifts stop, all within a few seconds.
10  Some crash against a shelf, or a wall, a couple against each other.
11  
12  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1
13  >> What the heck?
14  
15  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 2
16  >> Hey, what's going on?
17  
18  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1
19  >> My forklift won't start.
20  
21  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 2
22  >> Mine either. They can't all be broken, can they?
23  
24  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1
25  > <br> (Shouting to people some distance away)
26  >> Hey, do you know what's wrong? Why did all forklifts stop at the same
27  >> time?
28  
29  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
30  > <br> (Shouting back)
31  >> We don't know either. I'll go call the supervisor.
32  
33  FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 runs a short distance to a wall phone, and dials a
34  number. The call is soon answered.
35  
36  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
37  >> Hey Mike, our forklifts stopped and won't start again.
38  
39  > SUPERVISOR
40  >> What do you mean?
41  
42  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
43  > <br> (Slowly)
44  >> Every forklift has stopped. They do not start again.
45  
46  > SUPERVISOR
47  >> Stopped? What do you mean they stopped? What did you do?
48  
49  > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3
50  >> We didn't do nothing, OK. They just stopped. Come look for yourself.