Posted 7/07/2006 05:40:00 PM by Douglas

This Coke v. Pepsi thing is the weirdest thing I've read in a while. Girl Scout cookie boxes? Really?

Coke officials confirmed the documents were tightly held trade secrets, he said. "Dirk" then requested $10,000 for the initial papers, accompanied by a letter promising to provide further documents on request, Nahmias said.

"I can even provide actual products and packaging of certain products, that no eye has seen, outside of maybe five top execs," the letter states.

"I need to know today, if I have a serious partner or not. If the good faith money is in my account by Monday, that will be an indication of your seriousness."

"Dirk" provided other documents to the FBI for $5,000 and agreed to take $75,000 for a highly confidential product sample from a new Coca-Cola project.

Why is this kind of corporate espionage more interesting than our government lying to us to excuse a fake, made up war? Oh yeah, because the Cola wars have no casualties. Except for these dumbasses:

On June 16, an FBI undercover agent met with Dimson at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Dimson handed over a bag containing documents marked "highly confidential" and a glass bottle with a white label containing a liquid product sample, Nahmias said.

The undercover agent paid Dimson $30,000 in $100 and $50 bills stuffed in a Girl Scout cookie box, he said. The agent also agreed to pay another $45,000 after successful testing of the product sample, he said.

I want $100,000 and a box of Thin Mints. No, don't put the money in a Thin Mint box, I want a box of Thin Mints, bitch!

What the perennially number two Pepsi realizes is how much their creditability has increased in this matter.

A Pepsi spokesman said the company was glad to help.

"We did what any responsible company would do," the spokesman said.

"Competition can be fierce, but it must also be fair and legal."

All I can say is it's a good thing the FBI got to these clowns before Coke did. Otherwise, they'd be sleeping with the fishes.