The A.F.R. mirror-attacks and Tine's anti-drowsy-driving PSA blunder

texture · ~YW-YTMP (2002-03)

• When: the mirror-attack campaign runs "well into the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad" (YTMP, 2003); Tine is already "Chief of the new United States Office of Unspecified Services" (post-O.N.A.N. onset)
• What: As the anti-O.N.A.N. Québecois terror cells (the not-yet-identified A.F.R.) begin dragging mirrors across I-87 in the Adirondacks to run U.S. motorists off the road, the new intelligence chief misreads the pattern: Tine "pressed, to his later embarrassment, for a series of anti-drowsy-driving Public Service spots" for upstate New New York, treating the diabolical-cell fatalities as sleepiness at the wheel — until a genuine would-be suicide "SMASHED THE ILLUSION" and exposed the anti-O.N.A.N. campaign. A rare narrated instance of Tine's intelligence apparatus getting it wrong.