Hi!
Ich habe gerade eben bei fbi angerufen, unter (202) 324-3000 und unsere amerikanischen Freunde auf den bedauernswerten Fehler hingewiesen. Die haben mich viermal weiterverbunden, dann konnte ich mein Anliegen vorbringen.
Das Gespräch lief in etwa ab wie folgt:
"Hello. I'm calling from Germany. I would like to report a mistake on the FBI.gov homepage."
"Okay, Sir. Hold on a second, please. [pause] Sir, I'll redirect you. Please hold on!"
toot toot
"FBI, Hello?"
"Hello. I'm calling from Germany. I would like to report a mistake on the FBI.gov homepage."
[noch 2 mal weiterverbinden mit gleichem Text]
"Hello! FBI duty [murmel irgenwas, vielleicht executive director, homepage inspector, lyrical ghostbuster, whatever...]. How may I help you?"
"Hello. I'm calling from Germany. I would like to report a mistake on the FBI.gov homepage."
"Okay..."
"Sir, let me give you a link real quick. Can you access the internet from where you are right now?"
"Ah.. Well.. See, I'm not really sure if I can reach this page through the intranet, but let me see..."
"Shall I give you the link?"
"Okay"
"http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/noticerecov.htm (buchstabiert, mit wiederholungen)"
"Alright... If you open this link you will reach a world map. Click on Europe now!"
"Okay..."
"See what happens? A little pop-up-window comes up and shows you a map of Europe. On this map you will find an arrow pointing at what is supposed to be Austria. And this is the key problem, because this country simply isn't Austria. I think you should know that there are internet-forums in Europe in which people talk and laugh about this link. I mean, you do admit that this is an embarrassment to a secret intelligence service, don't you?"
"Yes, definitely... We`ll have someone take a look at this link and fix it as soon as possible."
"Okay, as a great admirer of the American administration I just thought I`d let you know what Europe is looking and laughing at. (Hier musste ich wegen starkem Kichern fast abbrechen

) But one further question: Can you give me an idea about how long it is going to take untill the link is going to be fixed? I would like to inform the people from my German forum about when we can expect an accurate map."
"Oh, I can't tell you that right now, but we'll definitely have a look at that and fix it in case it`s necessary."
"Oh I hope you will. I'm calling from Germany and this call is costing me like two bucks a minute."
"Thank you very much sir, we enjoy you support. Good-bye"
"Good bye"
Danach habe ich erstmal einen extremen Lachanfall bekommen, und will jetzt mein Original FBI-Supporter-Shirt!
dimbo.