XNavyNuke
01-16-2008, 08:55 AM
Homeland Security's watch list and DMV put Debbie Arthur through a nightmare (http://ourvalley.org/news.php?viewStory=2123)
What happened next scared her very much, and many would think rightly so.
She was in a classroom with students she tutors after school when she made the call. The woman on the other end of the line called her a convicted felon and a fugitive.
Arthur tried to explain herself but the lady on the other end kept telling her she was a fugitive from Decatur, Ga. and she had to come into the DMV in Roanoke with identification.
Finally, she went back to the DMV and eventually her identity was returned to her.
In the meantime she called Del. Lacey Putney, her representative in the Virginia House of Delegates, and he delivered some astounding news.
She said he told her of a glitch in the state computer system and that 1 out of 30 Virginians are either keyed in wrong or there is some other flaw in the system, and so problems can arise when the computers search for a match.
That is how Arthur was attached to the fugitive in Georgia—by the computer—and how she was connected to Homeland Security.
Being a teacher, she said she is well aware what the mistake could have done to her career.
State bureaucrats are bad enough, imagine having to fight through DC bureaucrats!
XNN
What happened next scared her very much, and many would think rightly so.
She was in a classroom with students she tutors after school when she made the call. The woman on the other end of the line called her a convicted felon and a fugitive.
Arthur tried to explain herself but the lady on the other end kept telling her she was a fugitive from Decatur, Ga. and she had to come into the DMV in Roanoke with identification.
Finally, she went back to the DMV and eventually her identity was returned to her.
In the meantime she called Del. Lacey Putney, her representative in the Virginia House of Delegates, and he delivered some astounding news.
She said he told her of a glitch in the state computer system and that 1 out of 30 Virginians are either keyed in wrong or there is some other flaw in the system, and so problems can arise when the computers search for a match.
That is how Arthur was attached to the fugitive in Georgia—by the computer—and how she was connected to Homeland Security.
Being a teacher, she said she is well aware what the mistake could have done to her career.
State bureaucrats are bad enough, imagine having to fight through DC bureaucrats!
XNN