WARNING: THE BELOW IS JUST MY OPINION
Sorry to double-post, but I wanted to editorialize for a minute: one of the biggest things that bugged me about this story, and turned me off to it immediately, was the opening dialog "hook." I hate dialog that just floats out there in the beginning of a story. Steel Beach starts with a similarly ridiculous line ("The penis is obsolete!") - it's just designed to rope the reader in.
Now, there is nothing wrong with a strong "hook" for an opening line (read "Dagon" by HPL for example) - but I hate it when it's done in dialog. That sort of technique works fine in film; The Godfather, for example, opens with the line "I believe in America" delivered via voice-over on a black screen. It works in The Godfather because, despite the absence of visual information, we can tell the speaker is male, old and Italian - and probably not a native english speaker. So much information conveyed by one little sentence. But in written form, it falls flat on its face: the 1st line of this story is just for shock value and is delivered without any prior establishment of who is saying it, and where he or she is. Films are successful because of their ability to convey large amounts of information swiftly - written stories cannot succeed on the same merits as films. A stronger opening would have been something subjective, from the point of view of the character perhaps reflecting on the case from a future perspective (Lovecraft is master of this - read "The Whisperer in Darkness" for a strong example).