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Give Michael Arrington his boat back and shed light on the absurdity of penalizing a citizen for doing the right thing.

Created by P.B. on February 22, 2013

Michael Arrington bought a boat from a Canadian company. This is his tale:

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY STOLE MY BOAT TODAY

I live a fairly simple life. I did splurge on was a boat (named Buddy.) Today, the Department of Homeland Security seized that boat. Buddy has to clear customs, part of the DHS. The primary form had an error. The price was changed from Canadian to U.S. dollars. I pointed out the error and suggested that we simply change the currency from US $ to CAD $ so that is was correct. The DHS agent didn’t care about the error and told me to sign the form anyway. “It’s just paperwork, it doesn’t matter,” she said. I declined.Then she seized the boat...

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Read the rest here: http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/21/the-department-of-homeland-security-sto...

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