Dempf
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- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 2 weeks ago:
When I use the word “private” I mean that stores, for the most part, are not owned by the government. I am saying that laws related to private property apply in this situation.
Technically what we are talking about here is a private business open to the public. And we are specifically talking about non government here, since getting trespassed from public property is a bit different in some ways.
Yes, there are many laws that apply to a private business open to the public (ADA, civil rights, food safety, etc.).
But the store is still owned by a company or an individual. They have the right to determine who can be on their property and when, within the bounds of any other applicable laws.
For the most part my response was concerned with legalities, as you seem confident that a store could lose a lawsuit merely for trespassing an individual. It seems you are claiming that a private business does not have the legal right to trespass an individual?
I’m not questioning your ability to walk past receipt checkers without talking to them. I do the same thing.
I do not dispute that refusing to talk to the store makes things more difficult if their goal becomes trespassing you from their property. However, the store does not need your name to tell you that you’re not welcome on their property. If you return, you will be in violation of trespass law. The store also does not need your name to call the police and report a crime. In reality, yes, this is unlikely to happen to you, but it has certainly happened.
I am not attempting to put under scrutiny your ability to file in court the paperwork necessary for a lawsuit in the event that a store trespasses you.
My question is: what would be the legal basis for such a lawsuit?
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 2 weeks ago:
If a private business decides to trespass you for any or no reason, what would be the basis of your lawsuit?
You are correct that you own the items after you purchase them, and the store has no right to stop you unless they are asserting shopkeeper’s privilege. For that, I believe they would need reasonable articulable suspicion just like any investigatory stop by law enforcement.
But at the same time, a private business has every right to ask you to leave for any reason at all, as long as they are not discriminating based on a protected class. They can tell you that you’re not welcome back, and if you return then you will almost certainly be breaking your state’s trespass law.
In reality, I don’t really see any store wanting to start the widespread trespassing of customers who are just walking out of a store with their purchased items (assuming no prior agreement with the store to stop or show receipt). It would be a big customer service risk on behalf of the store. However, it’s also untrue to say that just walking past a receipt checker is completely devoid of the risk of a store banning you.
To put it another way: you’re at a friend’s house, and he says you must stand on your head and sing the alphabet. You refuse. He has no legal way to compel you to comply. But he can ask you to leave his house and not come back. Your refusal to comply with his ridiculous alphabet related request is perfectly valid, but doing so can also bring some amount of risk that you’re no longer be welcome.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones over here.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones over here.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones on our hands.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
By the way, if you want something at a cheaper price point but still high quality for your son, I’ve been buying from these guys:
www.stirlingsoap.com/…/eau-de-toilettes
I don’t think they have anything that smells like Chanel No. 5, and most of the scents are more masculine. But a few are feminine (duchess, queen of hearts, evie, sweet stuff, witchy woman). Some of their scents are “inspired by” (basically copies of) more well known and expensive scents.
My personal favorite is Haverford, named after the Parks and Rec character.
I am seriously not into perfume/cologne at all, and I’m sure someone more knowledgeable would have better suggestions. But thought I’d throw in my 2c. Especially since the stuff that Sterling scents are inspired by is often 5x or 10x the price.
- Comment on We got several more inches of snow last night after getting over seven a few days ago. I went to my local newspaper's website to find out if there was anything I should know. This was their top story. 2 months ago:
Some places in mountain towns the avalanche danger can rise to the level that authorities declare it illegal to leave any building, and violators will be arrested. It’s called an “interlodge”. Basically it’s saying “it’s so dangerous outside that we don’t want to have to mobilize search and rescue just because your dumb ass couldn’t follow the rules”. Interlodges can potentially last for days.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 3 months ago:
I had the same surgery for $7600 a year ago.
My glasses prescription was really strong, and my corneas are really thin, so LASIK wasn’t an option for me.
Anyone considering this surgery should research the side effects and risks (there are some meta-papers in medical journals that go over these items).
I experienced all of the visual artifacts below in the days/weeks after my surgery. At first they were very bad/noticeable.
After a couple of weeks, the only major issue was still getting halos.
Those have gradually diminished over the last year, and 99.9% of the time, I don’t even notice that I have the lenses in.
Night driving is a bit more annoying because I still get a lot of halos there, but it’s manageable, and my brain is better at filtering them out.
Overall getting this surgery was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I see better than 20/20, and no longer have to wear glasses/contacts. But I’m saying (to anyone reading this and considering it), go into it with the expectation of some risk (e.g. could cause early cataracts), and give your body time to recover from the surgery and your brain time to adapt & filter out the halos.
- Comment on Automated switchboard 4 months ago:
Seems like people have been doing this enough that companies have started to disable the functionality. Comcast will just hang up on you nowadays if you spam zero.
My trick lately to speed things up with Comcast is just go straight to cancellations. I always immediately get a human on the phone. I them tell them what I’m actually calling about, and they will then transfer me to the correct department.
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 5 months ago:
That makes sense, thanks.
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 5 months ago:
Is there someone who understands / can explain the tax principles behind the removal? I see the term impairment charge mentioned in the article. Best I can tell, the company is saying their book value is higher than the actual value of the item, so they can take the loss and write it off. But why does that necessitate removing it?
Is this also the reason that Disney used to put stuff into “the vault” back in the day?
I’m all on board with piracy-first (I don’t even bother to figure out how to pay for movies/TV anymore because piracy is so much more convenient), but I want to be able to explain to a layman why things are getting worse.
- Comment on Anon challenges a fine 9 months ago:
My understanding is usually you can go before the judge and explain that the higher insurance rates will be a burden for you. Usually you don’t necessarily need a lawyer to go and ask for that. The judge will often add some stipulations like double the fine you pay now, and you can’t get another ticket for a certain amount of time.
When I lived in Illinois they had formalized the process and called it “court supervision” which is an option you can check on the ticket, but you do have to appear in court. Can’t get another speeding ticket for a year, and they won’t report it to insurance.
When I got a second speeding ticket though after 11 months, I did hire a lawyer. He requested continuance for me, so that by the time they heard the case, it had been 12 months, and I could do a second court supervision. Since then I decided to try to avoid getting more tickets.
- Comment on The true hero of summer 9 months ago:
Which will be a more common occurrence in the future.
- Comment on The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming 9 months ago:
I wonder if it has to do with reusing the transmission lines from the coal plant.
- Comment on Is it weird that I enjoy imagining being a witness/victim of various tragedies? 10 months ago:
Yours is the best take.
My guilty pleasure is the Air Crash Investigation series, or more recently Mentour Pilot on YouTube. It scratches both itches in my brain – the logic / engineer side, and the morbid curiosity & fascination with disaster.
The Roy thing is maybe pushing a little into weird. But if this sort of thing wasn’t normal then there wouldn’t be whole shows, subreddits, etc dedicated to disasters.
- Comment on gonads 11 months ago:
They need to do way instain nematodes> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back? it was on the news this mroing a nematode in ar who had kill her three gonads . they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots"
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 11 months ago:
This engine is McCarthyism.
- Comment on CFCs 1 year ago:
I use talking points like these a fair amount with Republicans. Try to get them to think back to when they were leaders in environmental policy. Get back to their roots of environmental stewardship. It seems to have moved the needle slightly.
- Comment on Task failed successfully 1 year ago:
Sure, I have an idea. How about we talk about beans…
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 1 year ago:
I have been happy to get outside my bubble a little bit. But at the same time, many of the Marxists here seem to be in their own bubble.
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 1 year ago:
I keep Teams on my Android phone but installed in its own isolated work profile via Shelter.
- Comment on Pharmacy staff from Walgreens, CVS say they’re at a breaking point — here’s what their days look like 1 year ago:
Costco does these and I happened to schedule my COVID shot the same day. It made getting my shot really chill and easy since everyone who would normally be waiting at the pharmacy for a flu shot was at the other side of the store.
- Comment on Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich- Ramsay Around The World 1 year ago:
At least I can say… man’s got balls for leaving this video up.
