Sunday, September 23 2007: I plead the Fourth
I kind of have to link to this story about a guy being detained and eventually arrested for refusing to let a Circuit City drone search his bag of recently purchased goods. This kind of crap has always made me feel a little hinky because it displays the tacit assumption that every customer exiting the store is a thief. In Amerka, I'm also supposed to be secure in my person from unlawful searches - where unlawful is defined as lacking probably cause. I just demonstrated to the store my willingness to play by the rules by paying for their overpriced, marketed crap. Why do they need to hassle me before letting me out of the store?
It almost makes me want to go to Wal-Mart and give them some of my hard-earned money in exchange for their cheap, poorly made shit just so I can tell the "greeter" to self-fellate as I leave.