Hal often claimed that the reason for the long wait for orders was because he was busy with work for orders from the Middle East and Africa, he also claimed to have been a guest of rich people in those countries in relation to his work.
One time he said he was a guest and while being escorted around a large building, they came to a courtyard where a woman was stood upright and still. When they came back the same way some time later, the woman was still there. When Hal asked what she was doing, his host walked over to her, and lifted up her burka to show that there was a pole attached to the ground, the top of which was attached to a vaginal plug, holding her fast.
There was another story about a device they used, he said he'd forgotten the Arabic name for it but that it translated as 'The Book'. What he described sounded sort of like a very robust spreader bar that folded double, there were shackled on it that attached to the woman's ankles, and then when the book was 'opened' it pushed her legs apart and made her keep them there.
Hal also claimed that he had a number of women who he was keyholder for, some who wore collars and some belts.
While it's entirely possible that Hal did sell some orders to other countries, what I heard from Richard and what was also confirmed by his sometime machinist Mike was that the long waits for orders was due to inadequate tooling; the capacity was never there to be inundated with orders from Saudi.
Richard also confirmed that there wasn't a collection of keys that Hal was holding for numerous women... or perhaps we can believe that they got lost and all of the poor women had to get themselves cut out, or are still collared and belted to this day.
Does anyone else have any good stories of Hal's tall tales?
