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Sounds like the buyer should have ASKED for the sheriff.... Private police threatening fines and jail time? Let them say that with law enforcement around for any follow up lawsuit. A purchase was made and the wrong product arrived at his door.. the seller had legitimate reason to have the product, but broke a street date... The customer did not ask for unreleased product... Sounds like the dealer is at fault, but not…
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American law enforcement would overwhelmingly "side" with the buyer here, by virtue solely of siding with the status quo. The moment they said "contract," Deputy Notmyjob will hold up a hand and say, "Sounds like a civil matter. Mr. Smith has advised you not to trespass on his property. Small claims office is at 1234 Fuckoff Street downtown. We'll be leaving now, and you will too, unless you'd like to take a trip to…
Not if the private security are off-duty or former cops with a strong relationship with local departments.
Private security appearing at your door may be intimidating, but it’s not a raid. Threatening someone with fines or jail time, who took receipt of distributed but embargoed product, i.e. by no stretch of the imagination illegal to possess, is the sort of thing you might want to look into legal options for, though.
> 1a: a hostile or predatory incursion
> 1b: a surprise attack by a small force
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raid
alternatively wiktionary:
> raid (plural raids)
> (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
> An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raid
Raid seems like the perfect word for this. Though the headline could make it a bit more clear that no police were involved
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This is a forum, not social media. There's no network nonsense and algorithm pushes here.
Agree to disagree; forums are social media. Traditional forum software is purely temporal ranking (latest-comment-first) plus pinned posts. HN uses a ranking algorithm based on engagement, plus ads.
Private security appearing at your door may be intimidating, but it’s not a raid. Threatening someone with fines or jail time, who took receipt of distributed but embargoed product, i.e. by no stretch of the imagination illegal to possess, is the sort of thing you might want to look into legal options for, though.
> raid: noun > 1a: a hostile or predatory incursion > 1b: a surprise attack by a small force https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raid alternatively wiktionary: > raid (plural raids) > (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle. > An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raid Raid seems like the perfec…
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If you want to go back to the Labor movement, the Pinkertons practically committed war crimes. When people say the police evolved from a misanthropic idea of keeping the peace, they are specifically thinking of the Pinkertons as an example. Hired thugs meant to keep those in power in power, not to protect the citizenry.
If you want to go back to the Labor movement... I do not. I would like an example from within the last, say, 75 years. Regardless, you didn't even cite an example.
You’re trying to make an extraordinary claims play to deflect this part of the conversation and I’m not biting. If you don’t know the sordid history of private armies go do your own research. Don’t imply other people are wrong because they aren’t spoon feeding you facts that people who employ tactics like you won’t hear even if offered in earnest. As many people I’m the civil rights and LGBT community are now saying, it’s not my job to educate you for free.
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No, actually. You cannot just shoot someone who is standing outside your doorway, And claim that they were trying to break in. You would go to jail.
Have you heard of the castle doctrine [1]? It's resulted in some really crazy (and imho horrible) situations where private citizens are allowed to use deadly force and literally murder people in cold blood. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
It does not allow you to just shoot someone, who is standing outside your door.
If they broke into your house, then yes it might apply.
But it absolutely does not allow you to just shoot someone, who knocked on your door.
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Agree to disagree; forums are social media. Traditional forum software is purely temporal ranking (latest-comment-first) plus pinned posts. HN uses a ranking algorithm based on engagement, plus ads.
I think if you expand it that much, the term's useless. HN lacks a couple things that I'd consider necessary for something to for-sure qualify as "social media": a personalized queue/feed, and some sort of prominent and heavily-used "follow" action. Those are two distinguishing features of the first things I recall the term ever being applied to—as far as I'm aware, the term was coined for that kind of thing. If the…