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Saturday, March 19, 2005 |
OT: My Job? Why, I'm A Hooker
This from NevOn, a cautionary tale about why bloggers should never suggest they are making money at it:
This sounds like an unbelievable story, but it happened to Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright last week.Wouldn't want anyone so dishonorable as a "blogger" running rampant on the U.S. streets, now would we?As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week for a meeting with McGraw-Hill to discuss a great business opportunity for Jeremy in the area of blogging.
It appears that the immigration people simply did not believe that Jeremy could make a living as a blogger. And they gave him the third degree - including an humiliating strip search - as a result for some hours. And banned him from entering the US.
Wright has a wrapup post that contains this mindboggling discussion that occurred during his detainment:
Him: Why would you visit someone in the states you’d never met (I mentioned I was planning to visit several people whilst down there)Security? What security?
Me: Well, I have met most of them, but I’ve talked to them dozens or hundreds of times online.
Him: Do you have any of their phone numbers?
Me: No, but I talk
Him:You can’t talk to someone without a phone number. Stop lying to me.
Me: No, really, I can talk from my computer to theirs
Him: Don’t be a smartass. If you don’t have their phone number, and you’ve never met them, how can you have ever talked to them.
Me: … (at this point I’ve learned that sarcasm doesn’t help, nor does answering questions he doesn’t want to hear the answer to)
Him: So, you’re trying to tell me that you’re going to visit someone who you’ve never met, never talked to and who knows nothing about you? And I’m supposed to believe this?
Me: … (This was two hours in, and minutes before I demanded to be released)
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