FLASH: DHS wants info on store refunds?

[Steve Schear]

At 06:11 PM 11/1/2003 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>Well, when I brought back the returns, they wanted a drivers license.  Odd,
>considering it was a cash sale and I was holding the receipt.
>
>"It's required by the Homeland Security Department" says the kid behind the
>register.  Sorry.  I need ID, and I have to enter it into the computer and
>forward it to the Homeland Security Office.  The Terrorists are using this
>kind of thing to wash money."
>
>I must have looked pretty stupid with my jaw hanging down like that.
>
>I made a scene of course.  A *big* scene.  Lots of loud argument, pointing
>out all the obvious things: as a cash sale, the money did not need
>"washing".  Cash sales are inherently ID agnostic.  Etc., etc., etc.
>
>No dice.
>
>They want ID, and they are not going to budge.

Was this information prominently displayed either behind the register or on 
the sales receipt prior to purchase?  Most state laws require this.

steve