Via the tortuous winding passages of the incident management system of a certain large company comes this cool story.

In at least one small airport in Brazil, the refuelling process works like this: the plane lands, the fuel companies’ representatives get on little scooters, race across the field to the plane door, and the first one there negotiates a deal with the pilot for refuelling. This is the astonishing, unadorned truth. Although the airfield is small, the fuel companies are actually 2 of the super-majors, and Petrobras, the Brazillian oil company.

The incident was surely just waiting to happen. The 3 fuel companies compete with each other in the purest sense: a bike race! Survival of the fittest! Beautiful and terrible anarcho-capitalism at work! Anyway, one of the biker-capitalists fell of his scooter and hurt himself. That was the incident. I just thought it was amazing that big companies engage in stuff like this.