Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

May 29, 2009

If you want to trade in your used games in Broward County, Florida, prepare to give up your thumbprint.

The Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports that the local sheriff's office began requiring game traders to submit to thumbprinting in October, 2008:

Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kayla Concepcion said the new requirement comes straight from the Florida Legislature, which enacted a law... that treated video games like second-hand goods sold at pawn shops. Now any store buying used video games has to collect the thumb prints, along with a bunch of other personal info about the seller.

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Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by deuxhero on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:17.

Read better, it's one county.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Puck on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 00:17.

Read better, GP has the headline as "Florida."

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by JDKJ on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:07.

I can see where this would upset folk . . . until some crack-head breaks into their dwelling, steals their entire collection of videogames, and the police are able to use the thumbprint to apprehend the thief and recover the stolen videogames which he traded in for cash (he being unable to fit a videogame into a crack pipe or he'd have probably smoked them, instead).

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by zel on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 13:46.

agree+1, I understand where it comes from. Too many thefts and no way to trace it back to the theives. Wouldn't need shit like this if there weren't so many damn theives :/

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Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by lumi on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:35.

This was my first thought, it's obviously meant to counter people stealing games and then turning them in for cash.

My next thought was "what idiot would steal a bunch of games and then sell them at a retail chain that required his fingerprint?"

Sell them out of your trunk on the street or to high schoolers in the parking lot. Hell, sell them on eBay.

There are so many ways to circumvent this. It seems like it's going to pester the average consumer WAY more than it's actually going to deter theft or lead to the apprehension of criminals.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by PHOENIXZERO on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:48.

Fortunately the vast majority of criminals are stupid.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by chadachada321 on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 20:44.

Abolishing rights because it *might* prevent some crime is just as stupid.

-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-

-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Wormdundee on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 15:14.

I dunno, you'd have to be extraordinarily stupid to sell back stolen video games, and then give the same people your fucking thumbprint.

It goes far beyond regular stupid.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by ZAR on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:03.

Ah, beloved Florida. The diamond of democracy. Don't want black people to vote for the "wrong" president? No problem! Don't want people to sell their used games? No problem! Just harass them to register like criminals.

Nope, it's not like Sicily and the Mafia! The Mafia has at least a (rudimentary) Code Of Honour.

ZAR.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by deuxhero on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:19.

1.It's a republic, not a democracy, it has to be, the US constitution requires every state to be. 2.we have that stupid motor voter law, I WISH we had measures in place to prevent dimwits from voting.

If you want a state like the Mafia try Illinois

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Nitherean on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 02:30.

Actually, Deuxhero, the United States of America, is a Democratic Republic. A true republic would to poltics, is an ogilopoly to business. Neither of which the people of that country, have a say by who runs the goverment. In a democratic republic, we the people, elect senators, representatives and a president to represent us, the people, at local, state, national, and international levels.

I onced lived in Pensacola, FL, and the drivers there are just wack jobs. At least here in Boston, its expected everyone is a Masshole drive....comes with the territory. But down in Pensacola, the drivers there got their instruction from a blind-mute, religious nutcase. If your driving in that town....drive very, very, VERY, carefully.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Adrian Lopez on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:10.

"It's a republic, not a democracy."

Of course it's a democracy. It's just not a direct democracy.

"I WISH we had measures in place to prevent dimwits from voting."

If we did have measures in place to prevent dimwits from voting, wouldn't you have to include people such as yourself who believe it's okay to deny some people the right to vote?

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Austin_Lewis on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 17:16.

Personally, and especially after this last election, I think we'd be well served if people had to match the candidate to the platform (IE what they had to say) when they voted.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by chadachada321 on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 20:43.

And also deal away with the Republican/Democrat bullshit, because most people probably honestly align more with either Libertarian, Constitutional, or Green party views. Americans today should be forced in some way to see what EVERY major party thinks and choose accordingly instead of thinking that there are only two (shitty) parties.

-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-

-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Wolvenmoon on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 00:32.

That confuses the dumb people, who are taught to think in right/wrong, black/white, apples/oranges. It's a 1 dimensional scale, when real politics are multiple 3 dimensional scales.

I will not buy securom games. http://www.wolvenmoon.com/sharedfiles/message1.jpg and http://www.wolvenmoon.com/sharedfiles/message2.jpg

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by axiomatic on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 10:59.

Regarding the ACLU, they will have to take this issue on eventually.

Side note to Broward County residents. Just use Amazon or Gamefly to trade in your games via mail then. Problem solved and Broward County, FL looks like like the "police state" they apparently are.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by final_cut on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:36.

Neither Gamefly nor Amazon will accept used games from customers in the state of Florida or Utah.

Jacksonville, FL

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by AgnostoTheo on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 14:38.

How's that again? I live in Jacksonville and I sell used games all the time.

Life begins and ends with Choice. Anything in your life that unlawfully or immorally steals Choice from you should be excised immediately, totally, and destroyed utterly.

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by killatia on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:08.

That sucks.

http://www.magicinkgaming.com/

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by Neeneko on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 10:59.

And this is why Florida has their own tag on fark....

Re: Trade Used Games in Florida, Get Thumbprinted

Submitted by sirdarkat on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 10:49.

Wow amazed ACLU hasnt gone after this as invasion of privacy.

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