so she thought about it-after of course she 'd loaded the coil of stamps into her mg and drove off-and then she phoned up more of those rip-off freaks she works with and had them drive over with a jackhammer of some kind , water-cooled and water-silenced , a real kinky special one which , christ , they ripped off , too , and they dug the stamp machine loose from the concrete in the middle of the night and carried it to her place in the back of a ford ranchero .