Mezzamorphis

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit wrote this today about someone pulling Joe the Plumber’s driver’s license or license plate information from the Ohio state system.

I think there is some truth behind this, but I also think it could have been done somewhat innocently. I work for a software company that deals with the Texas version of Ohio’s LEADS system. We’ve heard stories of people innocently doing a drivers license search on a name from the FBI’s Most Wanted that comes up on the TV or a license plate search on a car that is in the President’s motorcade. In either case, they had calls within a few minutes from federal agencies wanting to know why they did it. It could be that a bored rookie emergency dispatcher was watching the debate and decided to put Joe the Plumber’s name through the system to see what might come up.

It’s just a thought. It could very well be thuggish, but it could also be quite innocent.

UPDATE: Look, I’m not saying this is the most likely scenario. I’m just saying it’s another way of looking at it. I’ve posted before about what they did to Joe the Plubmer was wrong. I don’t agree with what happened.