Posted on 08/24/2022 5:28:53 PM PDT by algore
Yeah, but that’s nothing like Nana’s check kiting scheme. Or Ma and Pa’s shoe swindle racket.
“I don’t have a cash app, or any apps on my phone. “
For the people who use their phones to pay for stuff, what will they do in a future when phones are more commonly used for this and the police confiscate their phone for some reason?
For that matter, since there are few to no public pay phones, how will they call 911 or call for a ride or other help?
These phones are way too insecure.
I think somebody should come up with a chip or something that can be implanted in your body so the police can’t take it. Have it so you can pay stuff with the chip. Shoot, make people have to pay with the chip so you don’t have criminals using cash and stuff. As a bonus they could probably make it so it has a GPS transponder so in case you got lost people could find you.
I’ve been listening to the trial for the truck driver in the crash with all of those motorcycle riders in New Hampshire from three years ago.
I was listening to the part where he is interviewed after the accident. He claimed to not be distracted by his phone, and the police ask if they can have his phone so they can download it.
“So if you just let us do that we can get the phone back to you a lot quicker. Otherwise we have to get a judge and a warrant and that takes a long time. But you said you have nothing to hide, so we can just take it now and get it back to you sooner.”
“That’s fine. So I’ll get my phone back before I leave?”
“Well it won’t be that fast, but it will be a lot quicker this way.”
“Sure - okay. So when do I get my phone back? I need my phone.”
All the guy cared about was getting his phone back. When they read the release form it said something about how any information regarding any crime could be used as evidence gained from the phone. I imagine that a warrant would be limited only to evidence related to the crash.
OTOH, the defense has been using the interview as a plus (so far). “Didn’t the defendant agree to all of your requests? He answered all of your questions? He allowed you to search his possessions? He was not disagreeable? And in the three hours that you spent with him in conversation, driving him to the hospital to get checked out, during the interview, did he appear to be impaired in any way due to alcohol or drugs?”
“’But you said you have nothing to hide,,,’”
I’d say it’s likely we all have something to hide from “the law”..we just don’t always know what that something is.
“I think somebody should come up with a chip or something that can be implanted in your body so the police can’t take it. “
That chip should be implanted in the head and have a bit of remotely detonated explosive...just “for the children” you know.
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