So I’ve been reading a lot of stories lately involving people getting questioned by police, or even arrested simply because of the technology that they are carrying. Not because they are doing anything suspicious with this technology, but just because the gadgets that they are using are not widely known yet.

For example, you may have heard about the guy who dropped his ipod in an airplane toilet by accident, and the plane ended up making an emergency landing and authorities questioned everyone on board for hours! Click here if you want to read the whole story, it’s pretty funny.

Sure, an ipod in a toilet could be a little bit suspicious, but the guy tried to explain what happened before it got out of hand, and I think a rational person would have figured out that it was not an emergency and nobody was trying to blow up the plane.

There is another article that I was reading about a guy getting pulled out of his car in D.C. because police were suspicious of his PSP. Granted, the PSP is a very powerful gadget, but I really think that most people use it for what it was designed for rather than overthrowing governments. Click here for the link

I don’t really know what the solution for this is. I mean you could educate police and authorities about new technology and portable gadgets that are out, but it would be almost impossible to keep them informed on EVERY new toy released. This was just a bit of a trend that I was noticing and I thought I’d throw it out there. Just want to make sure that I don’t end up in prison for life just for listening to my MP3 player outside city hall.

Plus I noticed that my “rants” category was pretty empty

“A devil in a midnight mass…” - Billy Talent

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