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Fred  <cskeeguy@yahoo.com> writes:

> Thus do I say to the customer:

> I cannot steal from you what is not yours.

> Prove that the item is yours. It's simple, really. You either have a 
> receipt, or you made sure that the item was identified as yours as you 
> entered the store. If either of those conditions exist, the item is yours.

The burden of proof isn't on the customer, which is why customers aren't
legally obligated to show their receipt at the request of a store employee.

Of course, you could raise the ante and call the police to have a recal-
citrant customer arrested.  But then you'd set yourself up for being sued
for false arrest, or for assault and battery if you tried to detain the
person physically, and spend some time down in the local lockup taking it
in the service entrance from Bubba, your cellmate.


> You see, I am the guy behind the counter.

> Try being the guy behind the counter. It's not so easy.

Naah, I don't think so.  That's why the rest of us went to college.

It sucks to be you, as the kids like to say...



Geoff

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 only innocent intentions when it comes to those accused of 
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