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Had a family member who was audited by the IRS every year for years. Each time IRS received a tax lesson. Only stopped when family member got US Representative and both Senators to lean on the IRS.



It's funny how supposedly "random" computer systems can somehow target an individual.

I had an issue with a sheriff's deputy pulling my wife over on her way home from work twice a week for a month. Same deputy each time, and unfortunately my wife couldn't take another route. The deputy would only say she looked suspicious and then ask her personal questions.

I mentioned it to my boss, who was formerly an important person in the region, and he made a phone call. My wife never saw the deputy again.

In what I can only assume was retaliation, I suddenly got called for jury duty. Every other week. After the sixth notice, I mentioned it to my boss. He made a phone call, and put me on a list of people who should never be pulled for jury duty (for celebrities, etc...) in that county.

We moved to another state a few months later.

Computers sometimes seem to make the system easier to corrupt, rather than keep it from being corrupt.




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