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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

I Love Japan...

...so much I had my fingerprints surgically altered to dupe the immigration machines. It's true. Lin Rong, a 27-year-old Chinese woman, paid £9,000 to have her pads re-grafted so she could return to Japan. The story's here. Surveillance society? Phooey.
Posted by Randeep Ramesh at 8:34 AM
Labels: finger print, Japan, Surveillance

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