Re:The FBI Sucks at Photoshop
by rbanffy on Monday January 18, 2010 @10:14PM
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"The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph"
So... It could be anyone. I bet this is not the first instance a forensic artist uses some picture of someone he knows nothing about and puts it into a wanted people list.
Just imagine how hilarious would it be to be confused with a wanted terrorist (or paedophile, drug-trafficker, bank-robber, whatever) and be detained when arriving (or passing through the US), shipped somewhere to be interrogated, only to discover that was all because someone didn't find a picture in their reference picture files and pulled one from your facebook page...
I would be funny, if nobody could get hurt (or killed) for it.
A couple decades ago, a friend of mine was detained at a US airport because he had the same name a wanted Colombian drug overlord had. It took him six hours to have the Brazilian embassy confirm his identity so he could be released.
I wonder how many wanted criminals travel under their real names...
So... It could be anyone. I bet this is not the first instance a forensic artist uses some picture of someone he knows nothing about and puts it into a wanted people list.
Just imagine how hilarious would it be to be confused with a wanted terrorist (or paedophile, drug-trafficker, bank-robber, whatever) and be detained when arriving (or passing through the US), shipped somewhere to be interrogated, only to discover that was all because someone didn't find a picture in their reference picture files and pulled one from your facebook page...
I would be funny, if nobody could get hurt (or killed) for it.
A couple decades ago, a friend of mine was detained at a US airport because he had the same name a wanted Colombian drug overlord had. It took him six hours to have the Brazilian embassy confirm his identity so he could be released.
I wonder how many wanted criminals travel under their real names...