Ah, missed that. Trespassing? On a business property where the public is invited? When what he was doing is legal? Seems odd.
Yeah, but if you’re told to leave a company’s premises even though you’re doing legal things, you’d best fuck on off the moment they start getting the notion to call the cops. They have the right to refuse to provide you with service at any time, and if (as I suspect) they thought the “customer” was price-checking for a rival chain or something, it might well have been in their perceived best interest to oust him from the store.
It’s definitely odd, but if a store asks you to leave, you need to leave - otherwise it is trespassing.
They presumably asked him to leave (“we have the right to refuse service to anybody”) and he refused. At that point, I’m pretty sure it’s trespassing.
I disagree. To be deprived of liberty, even for a few hours, to be taken into custody under false pretenses should be worth every dime that company has or ever will have. And whoever filed the report should do jail time.
It occurs to me that if the police are ever called down there for an actual stolen car, they may ask a few stern questions first. “Boy Who Cried Wolf” is a famous fable for a reason.
They couldn’t have arrested him just for entering the property because it was a public place. But they can ask him to leave and if he refuses, then it’s trespassing.
But they didn’t ask him to leave-they asked him to come back.
You’d hope. My stepson was arrested because neighbors reported people vandalizing cars (not him). He was out having a smoke with a friend next to the car we just bought him so it had the previous owner’s name in the database since Colorado hadn’t processed the paperwork. Police run the VIN apparently unaware that there are temp tags on the car.
“My mom just bought it. Here’s the paperwork.”
“We don’t need to look at that.”
Night in jail and car impounded.
Actually, according to the link, he was found innocent.
Best Buy can lick my anus, incidentally. I don’t even want to shop there now.
No they didn’t.
Not the car dealership guy, the Best Buy guy.
Even assuming the amount isn’t reduced, much of the point is to discourage a repeat of the offense.
Unless the manager had a propensity for randomly calling the cops on customers, I doubt the award will do much to prevent a recurrence.
They should have asked the questions no matter what, which is why I speculated that either the guy at the dealership told one huge whopper or the police dropped the ball. “How do you know that this person stole the car?” should have been the very first question the police asked. Anything even remotely close to a truthful answer would have made it obvious that it wasn’t a police matter.
I’m guessing more “inexperienced cops” than “lying dealership manager”, although I imagine there was some of both.
I mean, like you said, there’s no good reason the cops shouldn’t have asked WHY the dealer knew who “stole” the car.
Really inexperienced cops. Poorly trained. Stupid. Gullible. All of those.
Meh - I paid cash for my ($35,000) car and I make a lot less than $500k an hour.
Yup, I saw that. But I wouldn’t rely on it as a general principal.
More than one fool, I expect. Because every time I’ve dealt with a car salesman, they’ve had to ‘take the deal back to their manager to get approval’. So likely more than one dealer employee saw this contract.
Not necessarily. That’s a sales tactic. Sometimes they just go out back and shoot the breeze with someone. Then they come back with a counter offer. The thinking is while they left you alone, you’ve gotten a bit antsy and want to make a deal, so you are more likely to accept the counter offer. Sales guys generally know what type of deals they can make. Unless you are talking the price below their parameters, chances are the manager isn’t involved.