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Lebell · 01-30-2005, 05:49 PM

This thread is borne out of the current Best Buy thread...

Do you submit to a bag search on the way out of a store?

Some places you have no choice. For instance, if you belong to a Sam's Club or Costco, it is in your membership agreement that you will submit to them, but I've noticed more and more places are trying it.

The local Best Buy as well as Target are trying to get away with it by stationing people at the exits and asking to see reciepts, in bags, etc. and the people meekly submit.

Do they realize that there is NO LAW that says they have to?

Once you have purchased your merchandise, it is YOURS and unless they suspect theft (with a damn good reason), they can't stop or search you.

When I found this out, I stopped letting them look through my stuff.

Now I just glide past the line of folks waiting to get searched, and when the guy at Best Buy or Fries says, as they inevitably do, "Sir?? I need to check your reciept!", I always reply, "No Thanks!", with a big cheery smile.

So do you submit?

01-30-2005, 05:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	Submit to bag searches? This thread is borne out of the current Best Buy thread... Do you submit to a bag search on the way out of a store? Some places you have no choice. For instance, if you belong to a Sam's Club or Costco, it is in your membership agreement that you will submit to them, but I've noticed more and more places are trying it. The local Best Buy as well as Target are trying to get away with it by stationing people at the exits and asking to see reciepts, in bags, etc. and the people meekly submit. Do they realize that there is NO LAW that says they have to? Once you have purchased your merchandise, it is YOURS and unless they suspect theft (with a damn good reason), they can't stop or search you. When I found this out, I stopped letting them look through my stuff. Now I just glide past the line of folks waiting to get searched, and when the guy at Best Buy or Fries says, as they inevitably do, "Sir?? I need to check your reciept!", I always reply, "No Thanks!", with a big cheery smile. So do you submit? __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!