Posted on 09/03/2007 3:19:20 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
Today was an eventful day. I drove to Cleveland, reunited with my father’s side of the family and got arrested. More on that arrested part to come.
For the labor day weekend my father decided to host a small family reunion. My sister flew in from California and I drove in from Pittsburgh to visit my father, his wife and my little brother and sister. Shortly after arriving we packed the whole family into my father’s Buick and headed off to the grocery store to buy some ingredients to make monkeybread. (It’s my little sister’s birthday today and that was her cute/bizare birthday request.)
Next to the grocery store was a Circuit City. (The Brooklyn, Ohio Circuit City to be exact.) Having forgotten that it was my sister’s birthday I decided to run in and buy her a last minute gift. I settled on Disney’s “Cars” game for the Nintendo Wii. I also needed to purchase a Power Squid surge protector which I paid for separately with my business credit card. As I headed towards the exit doors I passed a gentleman whose name I would later learn is Santura. As I began to walk towards the doors Santura said, “Sir, I need to examine your receipt.” I responded by continuing to walk past him while saying, “No thank you.”
As I walked through the double doors I heard Santura yelling for his manager behind me. My father and the family had the Buick pulled up waiting for me outside the doors to Circuit City. I opened the door and got into the back seat while Santura and his manager, whose name I have since learned is Joe Atha, came running up to the vehicle.
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He should be arrested and booked for being an a-hole. OMG, they want to check the receipt to see if anything is stolen! Nazis! Don’t go into the store if you don’t want them to guard against shoplifting, which ends up costing all of us more money. What a joke.
Exactly.
lol.... You are not listening to what I am saying. I know he didn’t ‘”have” to do any such thing’ legally. I was saying he “had” to do it in order to avoid a big hassle and in order to not be one of the biggest jack@sses in history.
No, what the manager “had” to do was to restrain himself, and if he suspected that the person was shoplifting (which he even admitted that he didn’t), then he should have written down the license plate, and called police (which he also didn’t).
All Rosa Parks had to do was move to the back of the bus. No words necessary, and everyone would have been saved lots of bother.
OUCH! (but well said)
bttt!
The comparison to Rosa Parks is a bit much, but if it gets the point across...
“No, what the manager “had” to do was to restrain himself...”
You are still talking legally, while I have explained repeatedly that my primary concern is moral and practical. a little slow? Whatever. Have fun being outraged.
Evidently, it’s become necessary to be “over the top” to get the point across. It doesn’t otherwise seem to be sinking in. I’m sure those very words were said at the time, as well.
this guy is a total J/O.
when you enter a store, you are agreeing with their posted policies. you don't want your bag searched, ORDER ONLINE OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!
someone show me where in the bill of rights it says we have a right not to be searched on private property when it is posted that we are consenting to a search just by walking in!
this guy deserves to get screwed.
It’s amazing how all the codes tend to dovetail into one another and some conflict with one another. Many such codes have been given authority by local ordinances.
There are a litany of issues and interests at play in this type of situation. Just because some codes are not applicable in private, doesn’t mean statutory law is inapplicable.
Here’s a couple of moral questions: Do you think the manager feels guilty for unlawfully detaining someone that didn’t turn out to be a shoplifter, especially when he had no suspicion of that fact in the first place? Do you think he feels guilty that he cost his company a nice check that will be paid out to the author of this article?
Do you think the cop feels guilty that he arrested someone who fully cooperated with him, provided identity and proof he stole nothing, and in fact was the person that called him?
Practical questions:
How long do you think it will take for the manager to find another job, now that he’s most likely been fired?
lol.... Are you seriously comparing racial discrimination to asking to see a receipt at store exits? Exactly who is being discriminated against when everyone is asked equally? sheesh..... Next you guys will be comparng yourselves to Christ on the cross. lol,,, yes you are terribly put upon.
so the signs that basically say “by entering the store you are agreeing to be searched” mean what exactly? sorry i couldn’t read 350 posts...
I think that thanks to the jerk who wrote this article that a lot of people feel bad right now. he ruined a lot of otherwise nice peoples days by being a such a jerk. He is your hero?
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