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good lord, I need my tinfoil hat. "You say “business” (because you were at a conference) but the stamps in your passport indicate that you’re returning from a
by dzlobin 16y ago
good lord, I need my tinfoil hat.
"You say “business” (because you were at a conference) but the stamps in your passport indicate that you’re returning from a tourist destination like Bali. Now the officer can argue that you have made a false statement, have engaged in an attempt to claim improper business deductions under the Internal Revenue Code and have broken any other federal criminal law -- there are more than 10,000 -- which he can mold around the circumstances.
You and your travelling companion say “pleasure” but you’re returning from Antwerp, a city known for its diamond trade not its nightlife. Liars and smugglers! And, with two people involved, the feds can levy conspiracy and aiding and abetting charges"
- hugh3 16y agoThere was a good thread here yesterday (and no doubt on several prior occasions) about the gap between what people should be worried about and what they are worried about. People tend to worry too much about certain incredibly remote possibilities while being under-concerned about much more likely events. The probability that you're going to wind up in jail for a crime you didn't commit based on an innocent and truthful answer to a prosaic-sounding question strikes me as one of those incredibly-unlikely events that some folks (like this dude) spend entirely too much time worrying about.