[TriLUG] CompUSA closing stores

[Magnus]

Steve Litt wrote:
> They detained me 10 minutes

And you didn't sue?

There are laws against that ya know.

Remember when stores used to have security goons at the door checking 
your bags on the way out?  When they would say to me "Can I check your 
bag?" I used to take great pleasure in telling them "No, thank you." 
because really this was entirely optional and they had no right to 
require you to present the bag with the item YOU now own (once the 
transaction was completed).

Best Buy nearly got in a lot of trouble over this very issue.  Notice 
that for over a year now, Best Buy no longer has goons checking your 
bags on the way out.  They actually tried detaining a customer that did 
exactly what I do and the goon detained him.  Cops came, citizen calmly 
informed the police of his own rights, and cops radio'd it up the chain. 
  In the end the illegally-detained customer had the option to press 
criminal charges against the Best Buy store manager and security goon 
but opted not to.  Instead he wrote letters up the corporate chain 
describing the incident and asking for their legal department to resolve 
it.  In the end, the lawyers nixed the bag checkers.

If you detain someone for shoplifting and it turns out they didn't, 
you're in deep doo doo.

If this story is interesting to you and you'd like to learn more about 
your rights as a citizen that are trampled every day, you might like 
this podcast: http://americanradioshow.us/