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Dala  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.

Having worked in ticket entry I am not super surprised because sometimes it was hard to tell different people's records apart, but it seems like they aren't even trying. How the hell does anyone figure that in that dense of a population there is only one person with a common name like that?





kleinbl00  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Visit an inner-city DMV some time.

Dala  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The police department would be the ones at fault with the tickets as they would do the entry and be the ones picking the wrong record. The DMV can only work with what they are given. We had a person whose job it was to untangle these sorts of issues. My personal experience says blame the officers, their handwriting is shit. Possibly New York's ticket form is lacking some fields that would help differentiate who's who as well.

dublinben  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm saddened that the largest city in the US relied on nothing more than Name + DOB to identify people in their records. They will send someone fines and possibly to jail based on the shoddiest of paperwork.