When the economy collapsed, the
Ghostbusters found they could no longer afford the “lavish”
working conditions they'd grown accustomed to. As it turned out, the
storage vault required staggering amounts of electricity to maintain,
the proton packs and traps required expensive charges and maintenance
after every half hour of actual use, and the city of New York no
longer allowed nuclear accelerators to go unlicensed, which itself
cost tens of thousands of dollars per year per accelerator “to
discourage untrained amateurs.” Insurance premiums were
astronomical. Ecto needed new struts twice a year due to the added
weight of the portable storage unit and trap recharger. Plus there
was the fact that all of these expenses paled in comparison to the
cost of renting a corner location three story firehouse in central
New York City.
Facing a seemingly endless stream of
expenses, the Ghostbusters were forced to cut back and go low tech.
In the current economic climate, their primary method of ghost
busting had reverted more and more until finally they were left with
putting a card board box on a table and asking the offending ghost
very nicely if he wouldn't mind sitting in it for a while.
- Originally mailed to C. Merritt from Juneau, Alaska
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