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Meanwhile, my wife just had a beautiful ameythyst she bought as a birthday gift for my son stolen by security in Mexico because it "could be used as a weapon". I say stolen because they wouldn't throw it away and just smirked the whole time at her.

It is sadly an all-too-common occurence when you give uneducated dimwits police-level power with no oversight and no recourse for anyone affected. I assume flexing government power is the real objective here since everybody knows that security is not.



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