SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: PatiBob who wrote (156543)1/1/2008 4:13:09 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 225578
 
There was a dramatization of a true case of stolen identity on a TV movie today. The moron judge was sympathetic to the criminal and brushed off the identity theft as 'not that serious.'

That's part of the problem I don't know where we get these judges.

I tell you what, we shred everything with our address on it. Even junk mail. There's so much of it I've learned to tear out the address part and just recycle the junk.

Credit card applications are the worst because they have your address in at least two places on the form.

With Google Earth, you can zoom right to a picture of your house, so a criminal can learn a lot about your life just that way with only a magazine address label.

I personally would be happy to shoot some of these creeps but then I'd be in jail and they'd get free medical care if they didn't croak.

My daughter was the victim of a grifter to the tune of $6000. You can't trust these creeps even if they seem normal. They're not.



To: PatiBob who wrote (156543)1/2/2008 11:02:57 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 225578
 
From what I've seen in the news, citizens are fed up and fighting back.

A buddy of mine is just back from Georgia (Atlanta area). He commented on the crime rate there and remarked that he would have been more comfortable had he been carrying concealed.

Maybe Rudi can comment on whether my friend's perception of the crime level there was accurate.