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Arpie: Getting 3rd Degree For $80 Canadian?

So hears a new one, at least for me. I'm heading norht this weekend. As usual I stop in at my bank to get a little Canadian spending Cash. What was different is that I had to give my address, phone# and SS# then come back in a ten minutes while they filed this info with the government to pick up $80 Canadian. The clerk explained that it was Patriot Act provisions. So Uncle Sam now knows I picked up some Canadian money. My first thought was I must not be getting enough of the stuff. Has anyone else run into this? How paranoid should I be? What should I make of this?/Arpie.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.