Based On Real Events

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Fate intervenes.

Every week after church Bob and a group of friends get together under the auspices of going bowling to actually drive to a strip club two hours away. Bob knows the guys from his kid’s school: J. Robert Oppenheimer Academy, a private school in Salt Lake. The friends are total screw up Matt Donaldson, father of one of Bob’s son’s best friends; Steve Chow-White, divorced and beaten down father of twin girls at the school, and the enigmatic Sanj Chopra, IT admin at the school all of the other three’s kids go to, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer Academy.

Bob became friends with as all four had the duty of being the parent to bring the kids to and/or from school. The group would often meet just after drop off or just prior to pick up to talk and quickly found they got along well, and they particularly enjoyed making fun of the other parents. Matt and Steve were also a members of the Mormon church, and the three of them convinced Sanj to join also.

One day while at a patio relaxing, Bob notices Matt has a "white residue" under his nose.  Before the other guys notice, Bob alerts Matt to this, and he wipes himself clean. But now Bob has gotten to thinking about something much, much bigger. 

After that incident, when they had a moment alone, Bob asked Matt about that white residue and Matt said he’d been a recreational coke user for a while. Matt was surprised that Bob had never tried it. Bob said he’d hated drugs, but really hated them since he's known several people who had OD’d on opiates. Matt tells him that coke is WAY safer than opiates, and that if more people were doing coke the world would be a safer place.

This gets Bob’s attention. Bob’s company’s products were environmentally safe wood coatings. While they were very much a liquid coating, there were certain dry ingredients that were an integral part of the formulation. These included Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate (DOT) and Ammonium Polyphosphate (APP).

Both of these ingredients were extremely fine white powders that looked, well, EXACTLY like cocaine.

Bob starts to ask Matt a lot of questions about supply and demand for the product. Matt tells him that his local connection has mentioned a few times that he’s had trouble getting supply, that the DEA had done too good a job in stopping shipments from coming in. Bob asks Matt if he would have some time to meet up at the GWT offices after work, that there was something he wanted to show him.

Bob takes Matt to GWT’s warehouse. They head into the back and Bob shows Matt the powder ingredients they use. Matt immediately comments on how much it looks like Bob has a warehouse full of coke. Bob tells Matt that they ship this stuff around the world and have no issues getting it through customs because of the fact they are now being recognized for their fire retardant products. He tells Matt that they put forty 25 kg bags per pallet, and if they were to, say, swap one out for a different product.

Matt thinks this is a great idea. Like, a really fucking amazing idea. Bob asks him if he would set up a meeting with his dealer so they could find out how to get this idea to the right people, and Matt immediately agrees, says he’ll do it right away.

And the fun - and fear - begins.