Improbable is Sometimes Reality

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Sometimes real life incidents seem completely improbable.

Consider the recent rescue of a number of high profile kidnap victims held by Colombian Rebel/Narcotics Cartel FARC.

The story goes that the Colombian intelligence agency, capitalizing on the death of FARC's founding leader and lots of recent heavy casualties among its other leadership, sent a message from one new leader to another. This was possible because the two new leaders had never met. The message instructed the junior of the two leaders to take the prisoners to a location and place them on helicopters to be flown to a new secure site.

The order was obeyed, and after the helicopters were boarded, the guards of the prisoners found themselves prisoners of Colombian security troops.

It will make a neat movie sometime, no matter how improbable it will seem.