Safeway Club Card Leads to Bogus Arson Arrest

[Justin]

On 2005-01-29T13:16:24+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223
> Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00
> 
>    from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept.
>    [1]Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip
>    Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come
>    with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with

They do not verify the information you give them.  They take the sheet
of paper and give you a card.  Make up a name, address, and phone
number.  If they ever discover the fraud (not in a legal sense) and
disable the card, so what?  Get another one.

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