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| william |
 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: Are you "in the system"? |
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Okay...
If you were ever arrested, then I assume your fingerprints and such are in "the system," whatever that is....
What kinds of things are kept "on file"?
And if you were never arrested, are you in the system at all? If so, what info do they have?
Cheers
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| Neutrino |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I was fingerprinted as part of my "fingerprinting merit badge" in boy scouts. So they got the goods on me. |
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| TvEye |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: Re: Are you "in the system"? |
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I went to jail overnight for stealing a pie. Little thing like that, on record for two years. They took my personal details, statement of guilt and fingerprints. File also contains arresting officer, date and place of arrest and date to take it off the record.
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| Neutrino |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| lol where did you steal a pie from? How old were you? And what kind of pie!? |
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| william |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| TvEye wrote: |
I went to jail overnight for stealing a pie.
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Wow TvEye...
I had no idea we had a hardened criminal in the forum.... 
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~Footnote in Goldstein's Mechanics, 3rd ed. p. 202
About my avatar: This is a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation of the merger of two galaxies. The code was written by Volker Springel of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics at Garching Germany. This simulation uses 20,000 disk particles (stars) and 40,000 halo particles (dark matter) per galaxy. The three views are, from left to right, the x-y plane, x-z plane, and y-z plane. |
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| TvEye |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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21, from a shopping centre and i believe it was steak and kidney. I used to pick up chocolates, eat them in the shop and hide the packet before walking out. So when i took the pie, they needed evidence. I refused to tell them where the packet was. They had to check the cameras to find it hidden inside a box of diapers. Lol.
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| Neutrino |
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| Harold14370 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I work in a nuclear power plant, and I am due to be "reinvestigated". They retook my fingerprints. The finger print machines are pretty cool nowadays, they just scan them into a computer, no ink on your fingers. The odd part I thought was that I had to fill out a form to let them research my credit rating. |
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| TvEye |
| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Lucky bastard. I'd give anything to work with nuclear power. Though my psychologist thinks it's a bad idea.
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| +SCIENCEgirl+ |
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Everyone who has travelled into the US (after 2001 I guess) is listed. When I came there for a holiday, at the douane (is that an english word?) I had to put all my fingers on a red plate thingie, they took a photo of me too.
So I don't think I'm in some sort of criminal database, but my fingerprint is listed somewhere on a server somewhere in the United States 
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| KALSTER |
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douane = customs. Hollanders! Slechts een grap. 
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| goodgod3rd |
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I don't think i have, but if they read my post about lock picking; they may just come after me.
We used to do that too, me any who, as a kid. along side my ma. grapes, rolls. sometimes...... i was guilty of going back again and again for a free sample. I did not know they were only one per customer
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