Ah, life at One Infinite Loop: never a dull moment. At least, that's the way we imagine it: Apple employees constantly embroiled in a neverending series of high-speed car chases, daring archaeological raids on ancient temples for hidden Aztec gold, illicit office romances with the danger of discovery (and death) hovering over every stolen kiss... you know, typical corporate cubicle life, only with a little more emphasis on crocodile-wrestling to save the forgotten princess from being sacrificed to the volcano god and a little less on figuring out how to clear a paper jam in the Xerox machine.

The thing is, from time to time we experience fleeting moments of doubt during which we start to question whether working at Apple is really any more dramatic than working at any other large corporate headquarters; what if the developers in the Mac OS X department really are just debugging timing errors in Dashboard animations, and not duelling to the death with lightsabers in zero gravity for Anna Kournikova's hand in marriage as, by all rights, they should be? But something always happens to restore our faith in the vision of One Infinite Loop as a take-no-prisoners battleground of nonstop action and adventure. Take, for instance, the campus's recent invasion by representatives of Kids and Pets Against Overtime.

KAPAO, in addition to having a suitably onomatopoeic acronym that'd be right at home onscreen in a '60s episode of Batman (and possibly being the band that had that "Heart and Soul" hit in 1987) has posted a rollicking account of its visit to Apple's headquarters last Saturday. The "KAPAO Car," outfitted with a loudspeaker, drove around Cupertino broadcasting the message "WE ARE KIDS AND PETS AGAINST OVERTIME AND WE ARE HERE TO SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF YOU APPLE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HERE WORKING LONG HOURS AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILIES ON A WEEKEND DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON." According to KAPAO, "the employees of Apple were seen to laugh and cheer" as the car spread its message. Everything was fine-- albeit a little strange-- until KAPAO actually ventured onto Infinite Loop, at which point surprisingly humorless security guards surrounded the car with SUVs, demanded that the KAPAO rep leave, and threatened to call the Santa Clara County Sheriff.

KAPAO left Infinite Loop and instead drove up and down Mariani Avenue-- escorted by four white security SUVs who used their own PAs to continuously remind the KAPAO car to "keep moving," a situation that KAPAO referred to as a "security parade" and a "slow-speed chase." Apparently the security staff was peeved enough to hurl obscenities and make rude gestures; geez, too much overtime, fellas? Apple's other employees reportedly thought the whole thing was a hoot, but then again, KAPAO's telling of the story may not be the most impartial of accounts. Still, no one got hurt.

Okay, so a slow-speed chase ain't exactly Bullitt, but it's probably more exciting than anything that happens at most companies during the work week, let along on the weekends. And by Apple standards, maybe it wasn't quite so surreal as the company's employees being accosted in their cars by a man wearing a turtle costume, but hey, you take what you can get.