Man detained and harassed at airport for carrying CASH!

Youtube ^ | 2 April 2009 | EconomyCollapse

[Errant]

Must see video... Know your rights!

[FReepaholic]

...The harassment stopped when an FBI agent stepped in and whispered to the TSA agents to let him go. They did...

Note to self: Always carry an FBI agent with you when traveling.

[chainsaw]

( No fed forms either)

Minimal or no paper trail also.

[Dead Corpse]

If you have any chump change to spare, I’m a chump. Fork over...

[Beagle8U]

How do you know what the bank filled out later?

Did you ask them if it would be reported?

[Errant]

"so he should sue those involved"

Certainly something needs to happen to those involved. Something more than just attending customer relations training.

[cowtowney]

“Don’t sweat it. He justs explains it and moves on.”

No.No.NO. He should explain nothing. It’s none of their business. Fight this crap on every level.

Don’t let them control you.

[Bokababe]

"“What business is it of the Feds?” well they also need to know what charities you donate to on your tax form. What interest you pay on your house, what kind of car you drive to depreciate it and if you are blind... It's their business to know... if you aint doing anything wrong then...

I've always said that the IRS knows more about each of us via paying our taxes, than the KGB ever knew about the average Soviet citizen!

[dalereed]

“well they also need to know what charities you donate to on your tax form. What interest you pay on your house, what kind of car you drive to depreciate it and if you are blind... It’s their business to know... if you aint doing anything wrong then...”

Only if you use the 1800 pages of the IRS code that tell you how not to pay taxes!

If you’re too lazy or want to donate to the feds, just use the standard deduction and don’t tell them anything.

[sweet_diane]

I know of a man who was stopped for speeding. The man had $2000 in his wallet and when the officer saw that, had the man get out and requested to search his vehicle. Within a suitcase strapped to the roof of his SUV the cop found 2 joints. The money was for buying a boat, which is why he was in town. The money and joints were confiscated and he went to jail and paid huge fines and was made to go to rehab.

Oh... after all that he couldn't afford the boat, but hey..got that dangerous criminal off the steets! lol

[Errant]

"How in the world did we get to this point?<"/i>

You did nothing to stop it

[MBB1984]

I don't see the point in any legal limit. If someone chooses to haul a million around, they should have the right to do so no questions asked.

[2harddrive]

WHY was it pulled so FAST?

[graywaiter]

Unreal! Some of these things are getting insane. I have to make large deposits at times due to cattle sales and I've never had a bank give me any static until I cashed out a 80k CD last fall. I wrote about it here once, but it was laughable all the hoops I had to jump through just to get it in cash.

[USNBandit]

You are correct. $10k is the limit where you have to declare entering or exiting the country. Just because you declare it doesn't mean the government has any right to take it. It just results in a form that goes to Treasury.

You do need to watch out for local authorities and narcotics people that think every pile of cash is related to the drug trade. If you zip your lip and let them seize your money it is very hard (and costly) to get it back. There was a local juridiction in Louisiana on I-10 that was notorious for seizing cars, cash, you name it.

[Errant]

The video still on youtube. Sometimes if their server is busy you get a strange message. Just hit F5 to refresh if you do.

[USNBandit]

On the flip side of that coin, they are also required to report the suspicion of transactions that appear to be structured to avoid the reports...so if you're providing a goods or services that result in repeated transactions of $9K or so, you will be reported for suspicion of attempts to avoid the $10,000 reporting threshold!

That's how they nailed Elliot Spitzer. He was making multiple, near simultaneous, interstate bank transactions to pay for his expensive call girl service.

[jjm2111]

bump for later viewing.

[Grampa Dave]

BOL

My wife and I had the reverse happen to us during the Clintoonian years.

We were flying to the UK, and I had a couple of expensive Fly Rods, reels, spools, lines and flies to go with them which were in my carry on bag.

The Fly Rods apparently triggered some alarms.

Just before the plane took off, my wife and I were told to come up to the front of the plane.

There was a federal maggot with a badge. He demanded to know how much cash we had. We each had a $100, 100 Pounds and a smaller amount in Francs. which we showed him.

The guy gave us a funny look, and asked how long we would be out of country and when we replied a little over two weeks. He smirked and snarled “How are you going live with that little amount of money?”

We showed him our ATM cards, Visa/Master card and our AMX card.

Then, he went into another rant about the limit at that time in cash,which I think was 10k per person. Finally my wife eyed him and said, “We just put one son through college and the second one through a good Culinary Academy, and if he thought that we had any money like over 20k on us, he should be fired!”

Then, she started back in the plane to go to her seat.

He said “Where are you going?”

Her response, “If you don’t know that I’m going back to my seat, you should be fired and locked up!”

At that time the Captain interupted and asked the guy to leave so he could fly the plane and passengers to the UK.

The guy glared at me and handed me our passports and left.

[Kimmers]

I am not doing anything wrong but you made a great point......

[Errant]

LOL, That is a brave and smart lady you got there!