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Originally Posted by kutulu
guthmund:
Can't you sue them for false imprisonment for that bs? They can ask you to leave if you have an offensive shirt, that's fine. But holding you with security is illegal unless they have reason to believe you did something illegal.
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Nope. It was voluntary. We went with them willingly to wait for the police, so, they were never really "holding" us at all. If they had tried to force us to wait, it would've been a different story, but we extended the courtesy. A courtesy I recinded after 30 minutes. They balked at giving us our licenses back, but, in the end, they knew they couldn't really hold us.
As for the spagetthi-o's....Turns out I could have left at any time. One of the cops who escorted us out had stopped by the store from time to time and we got along fairly well. He told me that they constantly have someone on their way out there to clear shit up. They called it the "Bullshit, Always" line. He also told me that Wal*Mart policy as he understood it isn't to hold you at all, but rather get photographic evidence and turn that over to the police. This was a reasonably small town (13,000) and the security detail was comprised mostly of rent-a-cop wannabes who got a kick out of this stuff. I could've left at any time. I just didn't know.