Re: WalMart search..

[Baron Chandler <thebaron@mindspring.net>]

> As long as you're voluntarily letting them search your bag. Of course,
> they can just deny entrance to their store to people who don't agree 
> to leave their bag at the register. It'd be interesting to argue 
> sexual discrimination- as Baron mentioned, women don't have to leave
> their purses.

Yep. I'll make a BIG scene. I'd even come back in a dress to prove my point.
And make a bigger scene. 

> I'll never forget going to Oxford Books in the Peachtree Battle shopping
> center with Michael Cameron one night. He had his laptop (Powerbook 540C,
> a rather expensive model at the time) with him. The lady at the counter
> asked him to leave it and he told her no. I've wanted to make store 
> clerks sign a form taking responsibility for the package before I leave it 
> with them- why would I trust someone I've never met before with my
> $3000 laptop? 

Yep. Even better. You and I both go in with the same type of laptop case.
You go in with a mac. I go in with a PC. We document this clearly. Then, we 
try our damndest to make off with the other package. Then the other
come back and freak out about what happened to their bag. Hell you could make
it up; they couldn't PROVE that it wasn't the wrong bag. Scream loud and
make it very clear they'll be sued. That clerk would shit their pants.
Get the manager. Rip them a new asshole. Leave.

> The exit search only really bothers me when I have a lot of stuff, I'm
> in a hurry, or I have to wait for the privlege of having a stranger
> root around in my bags. 

I don't want someone going thru my bags, unless I can screw them up mentally. 
Like buy a bunch of vaseline, condoms, a set of knives, a camera, 1 can of 
slim fast, and a six-pack of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.  

> Stores get away with this because people let them do it and don't challenge
> them. 

Yep. BOLEKAJA!

Baron.