JHZR2
Staff member
This is pretty funny... And sad.
Had the day off. I've had a bunch of batteries, some aluminum siding, and a bunch of copper knob and tube wiring. Filled it all into my truck to go to the scrap metal place.
Our town has a used oil dump place. It says oil only. I know from dropping stuff there that sometimes there are batteries. Figuring I was helping everyone out, I went to check for batteries.
Boy was I in luck, there were two forklift type batteries that had to be over 100lb each. I figured these two would be worth $50 and I'd be eating dinner for free. Hazmat costs money to dispose, the borough says oil only, so it's a hassle and I'll help everyone out and make a few bucks for it, right?
Well the hazmat is next to the Police station, so around comes a cop, seeing all my junk and stops me. Wanted all my info.
I'm the end I didnt get the batteries. I was lucky that he did t make me put my other batteries (from my garage) there. It's not like he knew if they were mine or not...
I was disturbed in that he asked me for my social security number. Is that allowed? At work, we constantly have training and advisement for dealing with personally identifiable information. SSN is not supposed to be used for identification. I initially told him that I wouldn't provide it. He told me that he would get it when putting my info in, and I said that I understood that, but ssn isn't for identification. I gave it to him so that it appeared that I was being cooperative. What is the right way to deal with that situation?
That's my story for today...
Had the day off. I've had a bunch of batteries, some aluminum siding, and a bunch of copper knob and tube wiring. Filled it all into my truck to go to the scrap metal place.
Our town has a used oil dump place. It says oil only. I know from dropping stuff there that sometimes there are batteries. Figuring I was helping everyone out, I went to check for batteries.
Boy was I in luck, there were two forklift type batteries that had to be over 100lb each. I figured these two would be worth $50 and I'd be eating dinner for free. Hazmat costs money to dispose, the borough says oil only, so it's a hassle and I'll help everyone out and make a few bucks for it, right?
Well the hazmat is next to the Police station, so around comes a cop, seeing all my junk and stops me. Wanted all my info.
I'm the end I didnt get the batteries. I was lucky that he did t make me put my other batteries (from my garage) there. It's not like he knew if they were mine or not...
I was disturbed in that he asked me for my social security number. Is that allowed? At work, we constantly have training and advisement for dealing with personally identifiable information. SSN is not supposed to be used for identification. I initially told him that I wouldn't provide it. He told me that he would get it when putting my info in, and I said that I understood that, but ssn isn't for identification. I gave it to him so that it appeared that I was being cooperative. What is the right way to deal with that situation?
That's my story for today...