The FBI took my salvage

[Walter]

It's not BS. It's true. If you are willing to sacrifice liberty for security, you don't deserve either. Franklin had it right.

We need to go back to actually following the constitution.

 

[yak]

Now, walmart has intoduced transmitters the size of a grain of sand it is now placing inside clothing, shoes...you name it.

Actually, they're placing them on pallets, not individual items, for inventory tracking purposes . And they're a hell of a lot larger than grains of sand.

"Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you"

 

[Don Burke]

Walter once bubbled... It's not BS. It's true. If you are willing to sacrifice liberty for security, you don't deserve either. Franklin had it right.

We need to go back to actually following the constitution.

What we need are are more people who can tell the difference between a liberty, a right, a privilege, and a convenience.

They seem to be spread pretty thin.

 

[FFMDiver]

Funny..some corporations have great interest:

"Art Kranzley, senior vice president at MasterCard. 'We're certainly looking at designs like key fobs. It could be in a pen or a pair of earrings. Ultimately, it could be embedded in anything — someday, maybe even under the skin.'"

www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-11-17-bonus-cover_x.htm

If you were a reg marketing person, wouldnt you want to know where your product went, what type of diver had it, was the dive in a cold or hot lattitude...etc, etc...

Food for thought folks, let not be naive..its all coming soon.

 

[kelpmermaid]

Sounds like a cases for the X-Files team to me.

 

[DandyDon]

Genesis once bubbled...
I went to South Florida on vacation with a handful of crisp, new $100s that I got directly from the teller window of the commercial bank where I did business at the time (in Chicago)

I made the "mistake" of trying to break one in a South Florida bank, as I was out of reasonably-sized bills and wanted to do a bit of shopping without flashing around $100s.

They claimed it was counterfeit, and ultimately seized it.

$100 bills look and feel good to me, but I carry travelers checks, a credit card, and a debit card - with your example being one of the reasons. In the states, when I need money, I stop by a grocery, buy something, and get debit cash back - easy, free, safe. Rooms, dives, etc go on the debit/credit card - which the operator at least thinks I have recourse if he screws me around. I keep $1 & $2 bills for tips, and I usually don't even use the T-checks, treating them as a safety reserve.

Breaking a $100 away from home would be too risky, for the BS reasons you illustrated and others.

Otherwise...

The original story to this thread before wandering off - not highjacked is more likley to happen close to an international border or coast, with Washington state being both. There was a fear of Japs attacking there at one time (massive forts still exist there to defend against invasion!), now it's a high risk portal for terrorists, I'm sure.

don

 

[Diversauras]

ElectricZombie once bubbled...
A guy here off the coast found a live grenade. He tried to sell it on ebay and got busted by the SBI/FBI. Doesn't look good for him. I think he was just being dumb...nothing terrorist related.

all of his oars didn't reach the water, I know who you're refering to....

 

[Diversauras]

ianr33 once bubbled...
Anybody know how the diving is in Guantanamo??

though it has been 30 years or so since I was there... cable beach, nice fish...

 

[Don Burke]

FFMDiver once bubbled... Funny..some corporations have great interest:

"Art Kranzley, senior vice president at MasterCard. 'We're certainly looking at designs like key fobs. It could be in a pen or a pair of earrings. Ultimately, it could be embedded in anything — someday, maybe even under the skin.'"

Mr Kranzley is referring to the equivalent of PayPass. That's a pretty long walk from identifying consumer goods.

FFMDiver once bubbled... If you were a reg marketing person, wouldnt you want to know where your product went, what type of diver had it, was the dive in a cold or hot lattitude...etc, etc...

Owner registration cards and contacts with boats and resorts would seem to be considerably more cost-effective.

FFMDiver once bubbled... Food for thought folks, let not be naive..its all coming soon.

You wouldn't happen to have any disposable income you'd care to invest in a wager on that theory, would you?

 

[IndigoBlue]

Rick Inman once bubbled...
What is it with me? A couple of months ago I found a 40 cal. launch grenade in the lake and the Air Force bomb squad came to my house and took it away (http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35209).
Saturday I found a red metal box (about 18”X12”X16”) in 12 foot of water in a local river. Inside, in a big trash bag, were a bunch of documents, half burned, some cut up. There were passports, Visas, Washington state drivers lic., social security cards (14 different ones, to be exact), cut up credit cards and more. There were computer disks burned and broken into pieces. The passports were issued in South Africa and it looked like the people entered the US through Canada. The names on the passports were not pronounceable by me. By the condition of the stuff I would guess it had not been in the river more than 24 hours. After a couple of calls, I was directed to the FBI. I went down to the local office with the red metal case, and of course, they took it away. They seemed VERY interested. They wanted to know exactly where I found it and exactly when. They wanted to know what I'd touched. They wanted all MY info including my social security number.
Probably nothing, but weird, huh? You just never know what you’ll find in the water. People think they can just toss it in and it’s gone forever.

Do you use a metal detector? And if so which one?