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Report Claims Confidential Police Info Used As Confetti At Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
from the oops dept
Mathew Ingram points us to the somewhat stunning claim that, during the Macy's Thanksgiving parade last week, some of the confetti showered down on viewers in Manhattan was poorly shredded documents from the Nassau County police department (for those not from the area, Nassau County is not in NYC, but right next to it on Long Island).
"There are phone numbers, addresses, more social security numbers, license plate numbers and then we find all these incident reports from police."Apparently there was also some info about Mitt Romney's motorcade for the last presidential debate that took place at Hofstra University (in Nassau County). And worse:
One confetti strip indicates that it's from an arrest record, and other strips offer more detail. "This is really shocking," Finkelstein said. "It says, 'At 4:30 A.M. a pipe bomb was thrown at a house in the Kings Grant' area."
Most significant, the confetti strips identified Nassau County detectives by name. Some of them are apparently undercover. Their social security numbers, dates of birth and other highly sensitive personal information was also printed on the confetti strips.The story sounds so bizarre that I'm wondering if it's really true, or if it's just someone messing with the press. But, of course, it's entirely possible. You'd just hope that modern police agencies were smarter than that.
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Cause of death: Forgot to look down.
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Cause of death: Forgot to look down or close mouth
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Hope for the best, expect the worst.
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Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
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Shredders
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Ya know - it could be a plant
It might even move said holder of the electronic version beyond the ability for the detectives to find them. So long as they didn't use a printer with the dot patterns in the paper.....
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