MapleSAP News
Nov 5-12 Edition

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‘ZAKUM SQUAD SYSTEM- A TOTAL SHAME’
Good times don’t last, or so thousands of Zakum-goers feel. As far as many are concerned, their Zakum days are over.
For the few hundred people new to the whole Zakum thing every year, their chances of getting in are 0%, probably less than zero.
Why? They told us why: Super high leveled men and women have taken advantage and set up a business: The Zakum Service; an illegal operation that rakes in hundreds of billions of mesos a year, according to surveys conducted by several parties.
Fighting the Allmighty Zakum race has been a sport tradition for thousands of years, one the dying fairies left to us; and the teams of Yetis and Lycanthropes constantly going in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Up until a few months ago, when super high levelled people first began to appear, the Zakum arena was a first come-first served kind of deal.
Now, the ‘Elite,’ as they are called have taken over, and have organized. They set up at every entrance to the arena, and guard the gates, while their buddies form teams of high level men and women (11X min) and go in.
Everybody presumably Level 105 and lower is referred to a ‘low level’ and denied access…unless they fork over 100 million mesos, double the price if you lower than 105. Even after you have paid, the squad leader will still expell you without a second’s hesitation if he or she can replace you with someone of a higher level.
‘Who the hell are these GMAs?” is constantly asked by disgruntled pissed off 9X people.
GMs?
Unfortunately yes. They are GMs. or GMA’s. Same thing apparently. KCP inspector Dennis Cheng, stationed in Kerning City’s Bukit Hills district, visited the backside of Mt. Popapulous last month during his vacation. Despite he was on his vacation time, Inspector Cheng went undercover to the eastern Dead Mines and conducted several surveys of the disgruntled crowds. During his 3-week stay at the Zakum Arena, Cheng confirmed the GMA’s are federally licensed SEA Land GMs, all graduates from the Law Enforcement Academy at Johoor Town.
It turns out that these lazy, corrupt GMA’s don’t lift an ass-cheek to do anything about this illegal and descriminatory operation here. People are constantly calling and mailing letters, but never once do they recieve a reply.
One mapler, a level 92 sindit told MapleSAP’s journalist Jim Fartes, “”Thank you for the input. Please note that we’ll send this to the respective GMs for further inspection. It makes more sense if you could inform the local GMA during the incident in order to catch the suspects red-handed.””
The sindit said she was infuriated by such a response because she made several attempts to contact the local GMA’s, and they simply ignored her or had their messengers shut off. As far as everyone sees; all these lazy cops do is sit around, picking their nuts while the Elite break the laws in their faces.
The humans are not alone. Every Yeti and Lycanthrope who comes down to the gates to enter is turned away outright.

Summarized: The Zakum Squad System (ZSS) has been monoploized and privatized and is being used by those who are in their newfound power. Until a huge crackdown happens, don’t expect anything to change at Zakum. Leave and find something else to to..like gathering evidence and personally delivering it to the GMA office in Singapura or El Nath.
— STAMP (Kerning City Branch), October 25, 2K7

KLON LAWSUIT STALLED OVER DEFENCE.
This week’s hearings were constantly delayed by the judge concering the defendants and their attorney, Mr. Hoikensan, who KLON’s lawyers tried to get canned over his dangerous driving charge. The judge ordered Hoikenson’s own case to be ‘frozen’ until this legal battle between KLON and STAMP finishes up.
Shocking proof over the defendants health led to the delay this Monday; He found out that the 15 STAMP employees arrested in late October were being held in Naples Jail’s maximum security wing; locked separately in cells with dangerous inmates. The judge declared in court today that the case will not proceed until the defendants themselves are brought to Orbis and appear in court–ONS

Despite the judge’s order, activists and supporters here at home [Kerning] disagree, calling the whole thing wrong.
One activist, a pro-free-speech lobbyist Zim Hung Zang from Tai-Wan claimed the 15 men and women, who are currently
in ‘under-trial’ status were deliberatly placed in Victoria’s most dangerous jail to convince courts to move them to Orbis.
The STAMP crew were locked in cells, and forbidden to communicate with anyone other than KLON and legal interrogators. No doubt a tactic being used by KLON’s lawyers.–Kerning Community College newspaper.

PQ UNION THREATENS STRIKE
The Party Quest Union’s few hundred members voted 71% to go on strike starting November 12 at 11:59PM ORbis Time. The PQWU’s eight Southern locals agreed in yesterday’s meeting that they are fed up with the conditions at almost every PQ site in the southern territories. The PQWU admitted the workers maintaining the Zakum arena, members of both El Nath Local 9, and Singapura Local 35, walked off the job last week after a major confrontation with elite PQers. Their wages fell horribly while those who rigged the ZSS rake in almost 2 billion a day. They also said they faced abuse by the GMA’s present. Local 9 demands GM action while the group from Local 31 went back to Singapura to demand transfer to other PQ sites in the SEA Lands.
The general strike will start this coming Tuesday and every PQ site except the Zakum arena will be shut down.

KC COUNCIL DENIES TO ASSIST
Kerning City mayor Jack Brodie held a press conference where he said that the city council would not get involved with the KLON-STAMP case. “Those kids got themselves into trouble. If they lose, of course they can’t pull 500 billion mesos out of their pockets, so they either face life in prison, or death; its as simple as that. I am not going to sacrifice my city to save a bunch of brats who tried to take a shot at the big dogs,”
The courts suggested Kerning’s council jump on the defence’s bandwagon and help pay out the 500 bil if they lose.
The judges said that while the STAMP kids will have to pay upright or face the punishment, the city can negotiate a flex-pay arrangement that won’t cripple Kerning’s economy. STAMP reps from Singapura were not available for comment.

THUNDERCOCKS’ JOCK CANNED FOR STEROIDS
The ThunderCocks football team were stripped of the Victoria Championship trophy when offenceman Russ MckGee tested positive for steroid use. The 22 year old ape like football jock’s sports achievments are now all in question, and he was arrested at the clinic. Players from other teams like the Kerning City Swampers, the Crocks, Henesys Hawks, and Ellinia Magic were questioning MckGee’s performance out on the field. He;s had numerous fouls from crashing into other players and causing injuries; ending the season for three Crocks players already.
In the last five games, MckGee was fouled numerous times, and in the third to last game, he beat the crap out of H-Hawks player Rod Smith after smith punched him for calling him a Justice Arrow zealot. Smith spent a few days in Kerning General with a shattered face plate, and missing teeth. Hawks coach Don Mills protested MckGee’s comment, saying that ‘When we go on the field, we place all our hostile feelings to the side. My players go out there in a clean and happy state They just want to have a good game.”