frostcircus: "wake me in the early morning with a large team of customs officers and accuse me of downloading child pornography,"
BladderOfDoom: Thats pissing brutal. I'm not sure if much awful experiences can match up to that. Congrats on not being convicted for something you didnt do.
It got worse too; despite the confession their tech guy still had to search my computers in order to satisfy the warrant. And, because I'm a massive geek, I have hard drives all over the place, so it took quite a while. When he flicked through a bunch of (seemingly randomly-selected) images, and then did a double-take and went back to check the ones of my young niece, I wanted to die. It was like she'd been dragged into this whole mess, which was unjust in every way possible.
Though it did become quite funny at a few points, almost like farce - there are a lot of very surreal things on my computer, especially in video and picture form, which is what his scanner thing mostly focused on. Lines like "yeah... I'm not sure how to explain that - oh god, you probably hear that a lot" passed my lips several times.
It was also pretty great when the actual porn videos started showing up. It's just funny having a uniformed agent with fancy technology hooked up to your computer calmly perusing internet porn and nodding "Yep. Good. That's fine. Yep. Okay. Good. Oh look, it's [porn star name]. Nice. That's fine."
But despite the moments of levity? Yeah, awful experience. I had nothing to hide, but it was still a massive invasion of privacy; these people in my house, then my room, then my computer. It sucked.