There is a story that the first gulf war was picked up on by media due to after 5pm pizza deliveries.
For context if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030106
For context if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030106
I was a pizza delivery guy around then, and I remember delivering pizzas to the local base. Mostly barracks, sometimes the Officers' quarters. One time, we had an order that went to a more secured location -- Got buzzed through the fence, around the side, up to the door, and into the man-trap inside the building.
That was past a bunch of signs saying I wasn't supposed to be there. The drivers always joked about 'Top Secret, Pizza Delivery clearance'. We had maps of the base, all the building numbers and everything.
That was all pre 9-11, It's a closed base now.
So for approximately the cost of a fully loaded laptop you, too, can set off the "pizza meter" and get people talking.