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Agreed, prison guards are about the furthest thing possible from what you see on the CSI shows. It’s kind of a last resort job for people who can’t do anything
by zxcvbn4038 5y ago
Agreed, prison guards are about the furthest thing possible from what you see on the CSI shows. It’s kind of a last resort job for people who can’t do anything else. When I visit people in prison I always bring my US Passport for identification because it just totally throws a wrench in the works, requires one or two supervisors to review my document, and 15-45 minutes to figure out how to enter it into the system since the passport number is twice as long as the driver’s license number and doesn’t fit in the usual entry screen. I’m sure it’s the most exciting thing to happen to them that day. Wait thirty days and everything old is new again. Once I ran into a super cop who wanted to know how I drove there and started to unholster his sidearm (obviously assuming that I was driving without a license and he was going to arrest me) but then I told him I took a cab and it just killed him and begrudgingly he waved me through to the next checkpoint. In reality I do drive myself, I just take out my license and leave it in the armrest of my car before I go in - that also blows away the myth of all cops being superhuman lie detectors with Black Widow level knowledge of body language and voice cues.
- voidfunc 5y agoQuestion! Do you do this just to difficult? I mean a passport is obviously a very valid piece of ID but you seem like you are doing this just to be a pain in the ass which says a lot about you as a person.
- leetcrew 5y agoseems like they're creating just as much inconvenience for themselves as for the prison employees, so I guess it's fair?
- zxcvbn4038 5y agoIt must be my inner Loki :)
- cultofmetatron 5y agoconsidering who he's inconveniencing, this man is a hero
- meepmorp 5y ago> considering who he's inconveniencing The people behind him, also trying to get into the prison to visit someone?
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoit's very difficult to inconvenience people in authority without at least some of that inconvenience flowing down to the people they are in authority over. But I guess one should try to see how it works.
- watwut 5y agoHe is incomveniencing himself primary. He takes longer to get in as a result. Their shift is as long as always.
- wlesieutre 5y agoI've had problems getting into bars with a passport before too, I used one for a while when my ID card was expired and people at the door would just say "Sorry we don't take passports." Then when you call the group of people you were meeting and say "They won't let me in, finish your drinks and let's head somewhere else" they somehow figure out how passports work.
- op00to 5y agoI’ve literally never seen a bar or restaurant cave like that, at least in the US. Once a decision is made not to serve, that’s it.
- wlesieutre 5y agoThey were set up for accepting passports, but had to fill out a little paper card instead of using their drivers license scanner. I’d get it if they were busy and had a line out the door but they just didn’t want to be bothered. Maybe they thought I was pulling out my passport to be a nuisance like the parent comment and would try again with my drivers license when they said no.