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To: Signalman
But if the store gave her back the money, so what's the real harm here, aside from her having a good reason to be mad until her money was returned.

Are we really at the point where any mistake made by a store must result in some kind of a lawsuit, simply because a customer had cause to be angry until the mistake was rectified?

I guess we really are becoming a planet of victims.
40 posted on 09/16/2012 11:47:54 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: zencycler

“But if the store gave her back the money, so what’s the real harm here, aside from her having a good reason to be mad until her money was returned. “

“Detained at the front of the store while told the police had been called, Ms Garcia claims that adding to her humiliation, the employees told curious customers in passing that she was busted trying to use fake money.

After two hours at the front, police arrived around 4.15am and proceeded to inspect the bills in question.”

That’s a big problem for the store! She was unlawfully detained, kidnapped!


48 posted on 09/16/2012 11:54:33 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: zencycler

Ugh, did you miss the part about being detained in public view at the front of the store for 2 hours? The part about telling other customers she was passing funny money? The part about not actually testing/checking the bills before ripping them?

Sounds like a whole cascading series of “mistakes”, that have NOT been rectified, other than the initial one involving the actual wrongful taking of her money.


60 posted on 09/16/2012 12:07:45 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: zencycler

but they didnt give it back until directed to do by LEO. it appears they also prevented her from leaving and destroyed her legal tender(breaking fed law)...so theft and unlawful inprisonment and destruction of federal property.

Litigation is quite a reasonable response...


77 posted on 09/16/2012 12:27:23 PM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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To: zencycler
so what's the real harm here

Defamation of character?

98 posted on 09/16/2012 1:38:10 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: zencycler

>> I guess we really are becoming a planet of victims.

I guess unlawful detention and public humiliation isn’t a big deal on whatever planet YOU come from.


100 posted on 09/16/2012 1:41:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: zencycler

The harm was that Ms. Garcia was unlawfully detained for two hours.

The store has no power to do that. None.


122 posted on 09/16/2012 3:20:56 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: zencycler
Are we really at the point where any mistake made by a store must result in some kind of a lawsuit, simply because a customer had cause to be angry until the mistake was rectified?

The most Walmart had a right to do in this case was to refuse her cash. If her story checks out, she's due a LOT more than $200.

159 posted on 09/16/2012 7:35:53 PM PDT by cynwoody
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