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A favorite Social Engineering tactic of High School Hustlers and MacGyver-like characters is to get what you need done (or just confuse the hell out of people) by shouting that it's an emergency and enlisting them in your Stone Soup or Fence Painting project. In some series, all you need to do is look like you're in charge and know what you're doing. It's for a Book is often a subtrope of this. May involve deploying the Clipboard of Authority. The Trope Namer is The Illuminatus Trilogy, in which the ploy is used as a metaphor for how the Bavarian Illuminati maintain their power.

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  • Bavarian Fire Drill
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  • A favorite Social Engineering tactic of High School Hustlers and MacGyver-like characters is to get what you need done (or just confuse the hell out of people) by shouting that it's an emergency and enlisting them in your Stone Soup or Fence Painting project. In some series, all you need to do is look like you're in charge and know what you're doing. It's for a Book is often a subtrope of this. May involve deploying the Clipboard of Authority. The Trope Namer is The Illuminatus Trilogy, in which the ploy is used as a metaphor for how the Bavarian Illuminati maintain their power.
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  • A favorite Social Engineering tactic of High School Hustlers and MacGyver-like characters is to get what you need done (or just confuse the hell out of people) by shouting that it's an emergency and enlisting them in your Stone Soup or Fence Painting project. In some series, all you need to do is look like you're in charge and know what you're doing. Commonly used to criticize modern culture as overly sheeplike, and/or show the main character as cool, intelligent, and rebellious. The idea is, if you push the Authority Button on the drones, they'll do whatever you tell them to, no matter how absurd. Of course, it is also possible that random strangers might be going along with something because it is absurd and they are so bored with their daily routine they will seek any kind of diversion from it; think back to fire drills breaking up your most boring elementary class for an example of this. It's for a Book is often a subtrope of this. May involve deploying the Clipboard of Authority. The Trope Namer is The Illuminatus Trilogy, in which the ploy is used as a metaphor for how the Bavarian Illuminati maintain their power. Related tropes include Trojan Prisoner, where the emphasis is on the disguise rather than the bluff; The Guards Must Be Crazy, which is often how people fall for this; and Refuge in Audacity, which is often how it's pulled off. Often Truth in Television. Examples of Bavarian Fire Drill include:
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