I never thought real life crime fighters could spot stuff actually dumber than the stuff that comes out of Hollywood. Apparently I was wrong. Here is a story from Denmark where the local constabulary misunderstands the basic operating principles of the internet, or computers in general. To funny. I especially liked this part.
At 7 am last Wednesday, I got a door-buzz and a ‘politi!’ from the little door-phone. They were from Hvidovre, a non-place somewhere out in the suburbs. Thinking it was about my stolen wallet, I let the mid-40s, ripe-bellied officers into my apartment, the whole time thinking, ‘Wow, your wallet gets stolen in Denmark and the cops visit to make sure you’re OK. The service.’ After they sat down in the kitchen, I asked what was up, and was told, ‘Well, you stole a credit card and ordered a bunch of shit online. And we know about it.’
Coppa what?
‘What? Wait. Wait. What. What?!’ I said. ‘Can we do this in English? I thought you just said I stole a credit card.’
‘Your Danish is fine,’ the dough-faced one said in Danish. ‘We know you stole it, we know what you did. We’re here to take your computer.’
‘My computer, why?’
‘We traced the transaction back to the wireless network in this apartment.’
‘But we have an open wireless connection. It’s unsecured.’
‘The internet doesn’t work that way.’
‘What? Wait. What?’
Read the whole thing, it’s hilarious, if not a little scary.
