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Wait, the police held your passport? Why?
by pdntspa 3y ago
Wait, the police held your passport? Why?
- wahnfrieden 3y ago[flagged]
- mjhay 3y agoAh, so just like the US then!
- noduerme 3y agoPolice in America don't control residents. Most of the time they can't even control themselves.
- vkou 3y agoThey control unwanted residents, and unarmed[1] protesters. [1] They prefer not to fuck with the armed ones.
- CamperBob2 3y agoPolice in America don't control residents. How was your nap, Mr. Van Winkle? 2020 wasn't a great year in the US. You were better off spending it asleep, trust me.
- noduerme 3y agoDon't flatter yourself. Nothing happened in 2020 that hasn't happened a lot worse, a lot more times before in America. If anything, the police were surprisingly ineffectual at protecting the owners' interests. I'll step out and burn a flag all day long in the street. They ain't gonna arrest me. I've seen the police publicly flog random people on the street in Vietnam just for being in their way. What a wonderfully just, equitable socialist paradise. Go check out and live in a country where the police actually control people and get back to me.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago[flagged]
- noduerme 3y agoIf you're an American and you rent an apartment, the local police keep your passport until you leave. You keep a xerox. That's how it was at the time. I don't know if that's still the case. I didn't feel good about it when I found out (actually, the moment I signed the lease), but there was nothing I could do about it. My exit from Vietnam was almost humorous. I had about 50 DVDs in my suitcase, mostly encrypted backups and burned movies, and every single one was inspected by sight, holding it up to the light (to see how far the burn went?), then left on the floor of the airport for me to pick up. Upon re-entering the US, the customs officers did almost the same thing, and then just confiscated all my discs. Weirdly, no one on either side checked my laptop.
- pdntspa 3y agoSo how do you travel outside the country then, if the police are holding your passport?
- noduerme 3y agoYou need to request it from the police for travel. In my experience, I did it via my landlord, and it took about a day.
- evilos 3y agoThey took your DVDs? On what pretext? Did you get them back?
- noduerme 3y agoThe pretext was piracy, since some of them were labeled with the names of movies. I protested they should just keep those ones, but they took them all and said I was lucky they weren't going to prosecute me. I didn't even try to get them back.