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Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest
JeremyDuffy writes "Michael Righi, the man who was arrested at Circuit City for failing to show his reciept/driver's license, has fought a moral battle against the city for almost a month now. The case has already been settled and he emerged victorious... sort of. It turns out that he's already spent almost $7500 and would have kept fighting them too, but because his family would have been dragged into it, he was forced to take a deal. They've expunged his record and dropped all charges, but he had to give up his right to sue the city to do it."
This guy is like the Florida taser idiot - attention whores who create a big problem for attention. There are plenty of options available to you if you don't like the way a store choses to enforce it's security policies. I won't walk into a Guitar Center because of their ignorant and over the top 'security check' at the door. Go to Sam's they check your receipt, go to Best Buy and they check your receipt. Those last two places have been polite about it. I get it - people steal stuff and some of that theft if actually through the cash registers so to stay in business some businesses decide to have receipt checkers. When they are obnoxious like at Guitar Center I complain to the manager and never shop there again. I don't go cause a scene at the door while I'm with family members, involve the police and act like a complete ass as this guy did. Like the 'Don't taser me Bro' guy, this guy knew he was causing trouble and decided to push it until he was arrested. Good, and I'm glad it cost him some money, perhaps this clown will find better ways to 'fight the man' if he wants.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
My guess is that he wasn't black, mexican, or jew enough.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
JUST SHOW THE GODDAMN RECEIPT!! for christ's sake. This was stoopid.
Except that when you're in a store, you're on private property. They can search the bag on the way out as much as they want.
If they randomly came up to you and demanded to search your bag on the street outside, now that would be different.
Do not downmod posts "overrated" simply because you disagree with them.
No, the door checker was doing his job as he was hired to do it, according to the policy of the store
He wasn't standing up for his rights - he was being an asshole that started the whole thing on purpose. He was not an innocent bystander that had his rights violated, he purposely picked a fight because he KNEW what was going to happen.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.