There is a story about a man who drinks a beer called Apple Dew. He gets a sore jaw and it gets worse with every can. He starts getting angry with the new QR code parking system. He never pays. He spits in his dog's water and he sees the dog gets rabid, wild angry, shaking his head all day. He goes to the hotel but refuses to pay except the amount for one day but refuses to leave. He is arrested and charged for terrorist trespass, is given 60 days notice to make payment but still refuses to pay the associated fine. He drinks some super Polish vodka and finds some relief from his pain that is not just a sore jaw and shaky gums but a virus. He kisses his girlfriend when she comes over and the pain comes back because she has the Apple Dew in her fridge also and drinks it. He sees a correlation in behavior with other people who drink the Apple Dew beer. They say they would rather be dead than pay. They see their national insurance number isn't cancelled when they didn't pay within 60 days. They are told it can be reinstated if they pay, but they still don't pay. The bank warns them that there is concern that they have no national ID and that their access could be suspended at any time. He eventually sees a movie that makes him think, the movie called Contagion and he wants to know if the phone everyone is using, I mean the beer, is the cause or source since he is not acting like the aspiring State Trooper who would usually pay his parking tickets right away. He is acting resistant but almost excited about it; the adulated and excited resistance. He knows he should but there is an English King again and maybe if we don't pay, we can see that we are leading him instead of him leading us. The Muslims pay their tickets and the Jews although they were also kind of hesitant and God knows why. So, the idea now is to pay or to just leave the country and then you see the system is the same over there also and if you don't pay, eventually you are fined and if you continue to refuse you are in the same problem as you were at home. If you wanted to drive a bus or be a McDonalds manager wouldn't you pay? You would agree and pay. Then, you are in your house, your mortgage was cancelled and you were only asked to pay someone $5.00 per day or make an arrangement or agreement. You are not hoping that person to just pass on; are you? You have no national ID. You can't drive because you don't have insurance and you can't keep threatening the law over $5.00. Being the church going country folk is no defense to a parking ticket or any offence for Driving Without Insurance. Couldn't they just take the cash out of the account, pay the person and take an extra $20,000.00 processing fee, a mortgage discharge fee? So, we decide to be happy and pay the money; just as we notice that there is a police truck parked near by the church every Sunday; looking for the 9 people in the congregation identified as terrorist trespass convicts. You look out the window and see that police have knocked on your neighbor's door across the road and he was told he doe not have to worry but they will be back later so you can pay something; any amount. The idea is you keep paying something since that was a big gift; the mortgage right off. You are covered if you do. He does not pay The house is cleared when they return. The children are exempt and so they are adopted by Schneider's Wieners. In fact, the local church takes them and the government starts their benefits early with a bank account opened jointly with the local church. Its probably the phone making people act this way or its some kind of repeating, resistant anthropology. This story reads like a thriller blended with a cautionary tale about "social contagion." To understand this man, we have to look at the intersection of his physical symptoms, his sudden personality shift, and the external symbols (the beer and the movie) that he’s using to make sense of his life. Click here.