[Intrigued]

Wait a minute...that was a real-live EMISSIONS test station? Why in the world didn't you just have them run the thing in and try to hook it up??? They could have just tried to hook up the sniffer, and seen the situation, and bypassed the Peter Principle incompetence (okay, that might be a little mean...) in the front of the building. Then maybe someone who knew what they were doing could have made the exemption happen...