The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner

A blind man recounts how he maliciously complied with a government agency's absurd demand to fax medical proof of his disability by sending 512 pages of records.

• •The Social Security 'Continuing Disability Review' required a man blind since birth to provide 'updated medical evidence' that he is still blind
• •When told email was unacceptable and only physical mail or fax would be accepted, he compiled 512 pages of medical records dating back to age five
• •He used an internet faxing service to send all 512 pages with the retry limit set to infinity, ensuring the fax would keep sending regardless of interruptions
• •The office fax machine jammed and ran out of toner after an hour, prompting a panicked call from the compliance officer begging him to stop
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