Well, did I got the surprise of my life this week.

I needed some paperwork done, that involve getting my FBI record (just to show what a nice, upstanding citizen I am).

Did my fingerprints, filled the paperwork and away it went to the FBI ..

A few years back I got arrested for assault & battery (means, getting into a fight) .. but even if that showed up, it was no big deal.

Well .. this week I get a call from the office where I did the paperwork, they needed to see me ASAP .. the lady sounded nervous on the phone, I ask, .. “is there a problem ?” .. she said she rather see me personally.

So I head on over, she handles me my FBI record .. no doubt about it, it’s my record .. right description, Social, it even shows my A&B episode .. nothing out of the normal .. until the last entry .. on the last line it says

“KNOWN DRUG TRAFFICKER”

Now .. this is not, DEALER, or USER .. no TRAFFICKER .. like those guys who bring the stuff in from other countries.

I started laughing, those who know me are aware the only drugs I ever took come in KEG format, then I stopped laughing when I realized what this had just done to me, and what implications it can have.

Immediately I called my lawyer .. who is baffled .. see, the problem is, when you have a record that you personally don’t know nothing about, how do you fight it ?

SO now, we need to .. first go to court and demand the FBI to open my record (see, the one I got is not valid, since it was sent to the institution who showed it to me, by law, she is not suppose to)

Then Once the record comes back, we need to then file another complaint with the court to challenge that entry .. basically, this can take years, and can cost ALLOT of money.

All because some idiot Federal Bureau of Investigations employee, was probably talking on the phone or cleaning her nails while typing in records, and my record # got somewhat crossed with some Drug Trafficker.

Aint this a bitch ?

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Today is a holiday here in the Azores (Portugal), we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the freedom from the old regiment …

Amazing how far the country went in 30 years .. you would never believe there used to be an oppressive government for centuries ..

Yesterday when I entered the Mall, I saw these 3 old ladies that seemed lost, they asked me if I spoke English and asked for some directions, .. where they happy when I said yes .. funny thing, they where spending the day here on a cruise ship, altrought the Azores are over 1500 miles from their home, we found out they live only 30 miles away from my Home in Florida .. isn’t this a small world .. anyway, they where marvelled at the state of the art Mall that we where on, and how technologically advanced this island is (I guess they thought they would find a poor Caribbean type setting here, not a spreading mini-metropolis) ..

Sometimes I need to take a step back and look around, this island is indeed amazing, I am yet to be able not to find anything I am used to back in the USA .. humm, except maybe for my TIVO .. which I miss dearly (but am happy to know it’s still recording CSI on the 160GB HD for me to watch upon the return to the sates :D)

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Today the FBI came by the office to pickup some logs on a scammer that was hosting with us, after taking his site down we kept all the info and logs on him .. I hope they catch the sucker.

Basically the user had a fake e-gold site, he would send emails out to people saying they need to verify their e-gold accounts, people then would go to HIS site and enter their details and pin numbers :p

ouch ..

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I read a good one today, so I tought I post it here

THE CLASS OF 2006
Just in case you weren’t feeling old enough today, this will
certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in
Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the Faculty a sense of
the mindset of this year’s incoming freshman.

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