[Newsbot]

Title: No-fly list flags more Canadian toddlers as security risks
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2016-01-05 08:47:21
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

They wouldn't be put on watch lists unless they weren't doing anything wrong. Trust the government! AmIrite?

[DanSC]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

They wouldn't be put on watch lists unless they weren't doing anything wrong. Trust the government! AmIrite?

We may soon ban gun sales to people on our no-fly list; glad to see Canada's new government adopting some American-style policies.

[Brenda]

'People suggested to have me change his name'
Are you kidding me???
How about they check birthdates??? How about NOT hiring people that are that stupid that they think a 6 year old boy they have in front of them is the same person as the one on the no fly list??
How about updating the no fly list with a year of birth (if that is not already on there)
Ohhhhhh, inefficiency. It makes me mad...

[PluggyRug]

Brenda Brenda:

'People suggested to have me change his name'
Are you kidding me???
How about they check birthdates??? How about NOT hiring people that are that stupid that they think a 6 year old boy they have in front of them is the same person as the one on the no fly list??
How about updating the no fly list with a year of birth (if that is not already on there)
Ohhhhhh, inefficiency. It makes me mad...

Government bureaucracies, as efficient as a wind farm on a calm day and only 15% efficient when it's howling a gale..

[DrCaleb]

Brenda Brenda:

'People suggested to have me change his name'
Are you kidding me???
How about they check birthdates??? How about NOT hiring people that are that stupid that they think a 6 year old boy they have in front of them is the same person as the one on the no fly list??
How about updating the no fly list with a year of birth (if that is not already on there)
Ohhhhhh, inefficiency. It makes me mad...

Welcome to "Security Theater 3000; making it look like we are making you safer, while continuing to cost billions annually".

[llama66]

the kid is a Habs fan. That's enough for me.

[2Cdo]

llama66 llama66:

the kid is a Habs fan. That's enough for me.

[herbie]

Apr. 1, 2016 headline
Fifty Thousand Passengers Stuck at Airports
When prankster adds "John Smith" to no-fly list.

Many many years ago, they refused a guy I was traveling with entry into the USA. They had these printed lists and he had a common name, there were over a dozen guys on their list with the same name that had criminal records.
He protested that none were him, but they used the grounds that he could be one and just moved so the address on his ID was different...

Only thing changed in 40 years, Gov't still relies on incomplete data and their agents have even less common sense....

[stratos]

Minority Report comes to mind .... maybe some supper geek precog machine types have already seen the kids future actions.

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

Apr. 1, 2016 headline
Fifty Thousand Passengers Stuck at Airports
When prankster adds "John Smith" to no-fly list.

Many many years ago, they refused a guy I was traveling with entry into the USA. They had these printed lists and he had a common name, there were over a dozen guys on their list with the same name that had criminal records.
He protested that none were him, but they used the grounds that he could be one and just moved so the address on his ID was different...

Only thing changed in 40 years, Gov't still relies on incomplete data and their agents have even less common sense....

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnis ... 40101.html

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnis ... 40101.html

I feel for the guy. But having an uncommon name is no picnic either.

I'm periodically confused with a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who shares a name with me. The hate mail I get sometimes is entertaining. I often write back and provoke the idiots in the name of the Washington Post where my alter ego works.

About 18 years ago San Diego County came after me to collect child support from a similarly named fellow who was fifteen years my senior.

I've been detained a few times as a possible fugitive who escaped from the Sacramento County jail...in 1956. (I was born in 1964).

And, of course, I also look like every red haired guy in the USA even if I might outweigh them by 50kg or stand taller than them by a head.

Thank Sweet Jesus Above that my name isn't John Smith!

[herbie]

I have a very uncommon last name, perhaps six phone listings in the whole province. So every time someone with my last name is in shit, they call here over and over and over demanding to speak with them.
Googled a couple of those names, one's came up as a surgeon in Ontario (her office must get a LOT of the same calls) and last one came up as a news headline - biker convicted somewhere else... in bloody jail!
Just proves common sense isn't

Funniest story - we were booking tickets when we were younger and the agent looked at my sisters's ID and said "Gee! You don't look Japanese."
My sister, a born again who wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it just stared back and said "I hope not I'm fucking Italian, you idiot."

[BartSimpson]

herbie herbie:

Funniest story - we were booking tickets when we were younger and the agent looked at my sisters's ID and said "Gee! You don't look Japanese."
My sister, a born again who wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it just stared back and said "I hope not I'm fucking Italian, you idiot."

The opposite of that is a Japanese friend of mine who married a Caucasian girl and she gets shit because cops and TSA don't believe her last name is Shigata.

[housewife]

If I had know my last name was so unpopular with the police here we wouldn't have moved here. Few months ago while trying to report a suicide threat I spent most of the call defending my last name and my daughter (my daughter is away in Uni not phoning the locals). Had to call back and wait hours for a response. Would have been faster to get a sitter and go there myself. From now on I will be sure to inform them that I am not related to anyone in town who doesn't live in this house before I give them my name. That is if I phone them...