🚀 go-pugleaf

unidextr@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:41:00 -0700, Patrick <patrickl@wco.com> wrote:
> 
> >> >This system sounds scary but is in fact harmless. Even if they keep your
> >> >thumb print on file so what. The only agency that could use the print
> >> >would be a law enforcement agency running it through the DMV data base.
> >> >
> >> >The whole purpose of the system is to cut down on stolen/forged checks.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I remember the photos, but NEVER during the 23 years that I lived in
> >> New Jersey was I ever finger printed under these circumstances (or any
> >> other for that matter!)  You might try refreshing your imagination
> >> about the fingerprinting in the super market, because it certainly
> >> must be a figment of your imagination for you to come up with garbage
> >> like that!
> >
> >Well bub, it may be garbage to you, but it's a fact. Since you have
> >lived in NJ since 1974 and not 1973 perhaps you missed it.
> >
> 
> Actually, it would have had to have been since 1993 - that is when I
> left NJ, it certainly was not anytime between 1974 and 1968 - I never
> encountered it then either.  And what is so harmless about having YOUR
> fingerprints passed around by any law enforcement agency that wanted
> them?  And has the DMV in New Jersey started to treat the state's
> citizen like criminals since I left?  Hell when I was there (and I
> understand it is still true) you do not even have to have your picture
> on your driver's license unless you want it there, has this changed
> too - that is on renewals, it was not an option on new licenses then!)
> 
> I hope it will not disturb you when some enforcer from a government
> agency comes knocking on your door in the middle of the night to take
> you into custody based on a match of your fingerprint on the rebate
> check you cashed from Intuit!


I haven't lived in NJ since 1974 so I don't have the foggiest idea
what's the norm there now.

Since I was in the military, and now a cop, my finger prints are on file
with any number of agencies and I couldn't care less. There is nothing
they can do with them other than use them to identify me in the event of
a gruesome death, or if I commit a crime and leave my prints to be
found.

I use Intuit products all the time so I don't know what you are talking
about. I also don't understand what you are worried about either. Give
me some specific circumstance where you feel that your finger print
could be used against you illegally by the government.

Patrick