When trying to pay cash for several pre-paid cards in order to place an anonymous online order for a stroller on Amazon, the transaction was rejected and possibly reported to the authorities for suspicious behavior.
> But then my husband headed to our local corner store to buy enough gift cards to afford a stroller listed on Amazon. There, a warning sign behind the cashier informed him that the store “reserves the right to limit the daily amount of prepaid card purchases and has an obligation to report excessive transactions to the authorities.”
All the article says is that there was a sign on the wall. I didn't get the impression it stopped them.
Precisely. As a diehard paranoid, I wanted to sympathize with the writer, but I felt betrayed.
Nothing actually happened. They saw a sign. So the writer gives the impression of being an alarmist worry-wart.
Could this article have been selected for publication so as to fuel the idea that people who are worried are merely overly anxious? The Snowden papers proved that government organizations have been feeding us confusing information to sway public opinion toward obedience to central authority. This may be a good example of it.
All the article says is that there was a sign on the wall. I didn't get the impression it stopped them.