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If you refuse to sign a form because it has an error on it, it's your problem. If that form is what enables you to take custody of a boat, then you don't get to
by jimrandomh 14y ago
If you refuse to sign a form because it has an error on it, it's your problem. If that form is what enables you to take custody of a boat, then you don't get to take custody of the boat. On the other hand, if the form that you signed has handwritten errata on it near the signature, and you weren't sneaky about it, then it's the bureacrats' problem instead of yours.
- OGinparadise 14y agoand you weren't sneaky about it, then it's the bureacrats' problem instead of yours. Actually it's your problem. They took his boat, ruined his week and it might cost him tens of thousands in lawyer fees. Other can miss flights to important meeting, bury their mom etc etc. Either way, you lose. Do you think the agent will be punished? I doubt it, blue wall of silence, union protection and all.
- __david__ 14y agoI think you misunderstand. He's saying this could have possibly been avoided by manually crossing out amount and correcting it, initialing it and then signing the page. Now you haven't lied and the it's up to someone else to fix it officially.
- vacri 14y agoHe should have just amended it himself - "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission"
- vacri 14y agoI'm not sure why he didn't just amend the form himself and initial the change. If the customs official didn't like that, well, he ends up in the same place as 'not signing'. If the customs official didn't care, he gets what he wants.