Dave Emery wrote:
I got up very early one morning and turned on my scanner and heard the police that serve the warrants ("We like to pick up everyone before breakfast" is a quote from a local warrant server). The dispatcher said that the FBI had located a friend of mine who was staying in a local Motel 6 and that there was a warrant for his arrest. He was picked up (it was a mistake) and when he asked how they knew he was there, they told him that Motel 6 gives their guest list to the FBI every day. I could not belive this! I told him that there was any number of ways that they could have found him. But about a week ago, I heard one of the warrant servers say something about Motel 6 and their FBI arrangement.
Dave, Around 20 years ago, I found out that the RCMP, during the course of their evening shifts, regularly cruised motel parking lots, taking down all of the license numbers and running checks on them. I found this out from first-hand experience, waiting to be booked for the crime of having a name vaguely similar to someone they were looking for. I have no doubt that many law enforcement agencies, including the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police for you non-frostbacks), have made this kind of prying more efficient by enlisting the aide of the motel management in their quest to follow every movement of everyone, everywhere, at all times (except during donut-breaks). -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html