Crimes
Many crimes in Mega-City One are controlled by flamboyant mob bosses:
- Blitzers: hitmen with self-destruct bombs implanted inside them which detonate if they surrender when apprehended.
- Body-sharking: loaning money to people willing to put a loved one into cryonic storage for collateral.
- Chump-dumping: conning aliens into believing Earth is a paradise, taking their money, and then dumping them into space.
- Face changing crimes: the illicit use of face changing machines to commit crimes and fraud.
- Futsies: People who can no longer handle the fast pace of life begin to suffer from "Future Shock," become psychotic and begin to commit crimes.
- Numbers racket: buying computer passcodes for industrial theft.
- Organ leggers: those who cut up citizens and sell their organs on the black market.
- Perp running: transporting felons off-world.
- Psycos: telepathic protection rackets.
- Stookie glanding: butchering Stookies, an intelligent alien race, for the anti-aging drug they produce.
- Umpty-baggers: pushers of umpty, a candy that tastes so good it forms an instant psychological addiction.
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