Is this true?

[AV1611VET]

I heard this once on the Art Bell show, and I am wondering if it is true or not:

You go into a store and make a purchase, using your debit or credit card. On the way home, you just flippantly toss the receipt out the window. Later, a patrolman finds it and runs the bar code.

Bingo! You get a fine in the mail for littering!

Can this happen?

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

I heard this once on the Art Bell show, and I am wondering if it is true or not:

You go into a store and make a purchase, using your debit or credit card. On the way home, you just flippantly toss the receipt out the window. Later, a patrolman finds it and runs the bar code.

Bingo! You get a fine in the mail for littering!

Can this happen?

Sounds plausible.

 

[juvenissun]

I heard this once on the Art Bell show, and I am wondering if it is true or not:

You go into a store and make a purchase, using your debit or credit card. On the way home, you just flippantly toss the receipt out the window. Later, a patrolman finds it and runs the bar code.

Bingo! You get a fine in the mail for littering!

Can this happen?

I guess it could.

But I doubt traffic police would have such power of investigation. This is a political science question. Isn't it?

 

[pgp_protector]

Could be, but I doubt it.
1) Only Receipts I've see with bar-codes are Gift Receipts that the buyer normally Gives with the gift (so they'd be trying to fine the wrong person)
2) Also they couldn't prove littering, only that they lost a receipt

 

[CabVet]

Also they couldn't prove littering, only that they lost a receipt

Yep, argument would never hold up in court.

 

[SnowCal]

Yep, argument would never hold up in court.

Good job insurance for lawyers though.

 

[Tiberius]

And I must wonder what this has to do with physical/life sciences...

 

[quatona]

I heard this once on the Art Bell show, and I am wondering if it is true or not:

You go into a store and make a purchase, using your debit or credit card. On the way home, you just flippantly toss the receipt out the window. Later, a patrolman finds it and runs the bar code.

Bingo! You get a fine in the mail for littering!

My defense would be: The patrolman created the receipt ex nihilo, and the information on the bar code was embedded.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

That is NOT the way God made the geological record etc

 

[AV1611VET]

That is NOT the way God made the geological record etc

-- What?

The geological record was made when God cleaned up the Flood mess 'decently and in order.'

1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

So its not another analogy thread, like the burnt out light bulb?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Wait on, if the record if like a reciept can we "prosecute God" for giving us an indication of an old earth?

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Bar code = stratification?

 

[juvenissun]

Bar code = stratification?

Hmm... Interesting idea. Thank you very much.

This will be a better analogy: each bar (and the background space) in the bar code is colored.

Stratigraphers will hate you so much.

 

[jpcedotal]

well, this conversation just went over my head.

 

[Belk]

I heard this once on the Art Bell show, and I am wondering if it is true or not:

You go into a store and make a purchase, using your debit or credit card. On the way home, you just flippantly toss the receipt out the window. Later, a patrolman finds it and runs the bar code.

Bingo! You get a fine in the mail for littering!

Can this happen?

No it is not true.

A) There is not enough identifying information on a receipt to get an account number to your bank account or credit card info. Otherwise they would be a target of identity theft.

B) A bank as a private institution would not give up the information without a search warrant.

 

[AV1611VET]

No it is not true.

A) There is not enough identifying information on a receipt to get an account number to your bank account or credit card info. Otherwise they would be a target of identity theft.

B) A bank as a private institution would not give up the information without a search warrant.

Sounds plausible.

 

[Lillen]

What is littering?

save the reciept, save the serial code, that way you tripple your income, the serial code shows what you own and of the products contain, while the receipt dubble that.

Proffessional bank robbers collect 5 cents here and 10 cents there.

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

-- What?

The geological record was made when God cleaned up the Flood mess 'decently and in order.'

1 Corinthians 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

I used to think you had a firm grasp on hermeneutics, until I read this.

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

My defense would be: The patrolman created the receipt ex nihilo, and the information on the bar code was embedded.

LOL...

"I have a religious conviction which precludes me from believing in evidence, your honor."