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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1634956, member: 37498&quot;]Wow, you really are naive.</p><p><br /></p><p>These measures aren&#039;t for &quot;YOUR&quot; safety, they are a result of the bank looking out for its own best interest.&nbsp; How can I be sure of that?&nbsp; It&#039;s simple, really.&nbsp; My bank does not require a thumbprint for account holders or for checks written on accounts at my bank.&nbsp; They ONLY require them for people who don&#039;t have accounts at my bank and are cashing a check that isn&#039;t written on an account at my bank.&nbsp; If you are an account holder cashing a check and it bounces, they take the money out of your account.&nbsp; If you are cashing a check written on an account at my bank, they can check the available balance before cashing it.&nbsp; The only time the bank faces a liability is when they cash a check for someone that doesn&#039;t have an account at my bank and it isn&#039;t written on an account at my bank, and that&#039;s why they require a thumbprint for doing so.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone steals one of my checks or produces a check with my account number on it and writes a fraudulent check and cashes it at my bank, my bank will cash the check and give them the funds without taking a thumbprint.&nbsp; So, tell me again how this is protecting me.&nbsp; Or, if someone goes to my bank to cash a check and has a fake ID with my name and DL number on it, the bank won&#039;t ask them for a thumbprint.&nbsp; If the check bounces, the money comes out of my account.&nbsp; Again, how is this thumbprint policy protecting me?</p><p><br /></p><p>...and how is requiring a blood sample to get insurance protecting me?</p><p><br /></p><p>The comparison you make between urine and blood is irrelevant because they can test for so many more things using your blood than they can with your urine.&nbsp; Also, it is possible to collect a urine sample with zero chance of cheating the system.&nbsp; I used to be a drug and alcohol NCO in the Army.&nbsp; I was the guy observing the soldiers providing samples.&nbsp; I know for a fact that none of the guys I observed gave me someone else&#039;s urine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cameras in banks, McD&#039;s, stores, etc are not for your protection.&nbsp; The footage obtained from them will absolutely be used against you if the need ever arises.&nbsp; I had a friend who had something stolen from the bed of his pickup truck when it was parked in a Target parking lot.&nbsp; He asked if he could view or have a copy of the footage of the parking lot from the time in question and they refused to provide it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;For YOUR safety my butt...&quot;&nbsp; :rollling:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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