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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by protocolture »

solomonb wrote: post #71

Can anyone explain WHY a 400M company would do this? This is just bonkers. They are destroying their reputation for $200k of legos???

400M value doesn't mean they have a big bin on the outskirts of town where they go swimming in 400M dollars of cash.

It seems like their franchisee went bust, and they bailed him out to some $ value. Taking over shit like his lease and probably some other debts.

200K is maybe what they need to recoup their losses from rescuing this store, and they have enough local LDS enforcers to make it stick.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by fragmede »

eff-nix wrote: post #227
fragmede wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends. Do the atheists of your region have literal physical temples where they hold weekly ceremonies and tithings to a central coordinating organization that goes back almost 200 years?

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What's the weekly gathering (usually Sunday morning) the organization they pay taxes to hold?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by crazygringo »

arjie wrote: post #233

One surprising thing I learned over time from news articles is that "won a judgment for $x from person y" actually doesn't mean very much in the US. The first thing that came to mind is a parachutist site in Lodi, but this one is another one. I suppose it is indeed as Andrew Jackson said: John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!

If someone is poor and doesn't have the money, sure you can't enforce it.

If it's a corporation, it's pretty straightforward. If they refuse to pay, you get a writ from the court that authorizes seizure of assets.

Usually that means you go their bank and the value of the judgment will be garnished by their bank and given to you.

Occasionally and theatrically, a sheriff will take you to their headquarters to seize property like computers and printers that you can sell at auction until the value is satisfied.

It only becomes difficult if the corporation is bankrupt, which is similar to a poor person who doesn't have the money. Then it becomes a question of prioritization, e.g. do you get paid before or after lenders, and will there be any money left.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by retired »

artnanika wrote: post #4

The best part about this is that the CEO insists that the agreement with the previous store owner is null (thus relieving him of the burden of paying 200k), and yet he also insists on keeping the Lego collection set and selling it. It's comical.

Would a simple audit not completely destroy this case?

"How did you acquire these sets?"

"Uhm... don't know they just appeared out of nowhere"

Straight to jail.

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Post by preinheimer »

munk-a wrote: post #118
prophesi wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporate is also claiming that they don't allow stores to take on consignment deals, contrary to their franchise agreement explicitly allowing franchise owners to take on consignment deals.

I have absolutely no doubts a court would consider it impossible to transfer goods under consignment to a different entity free of the burden of the consignment contract. So the corporation trying to reach into the franchise to grab these goods without honoring the contract is absolute BS and they should be dragged through the mud over it. The unfortunate loophole here is that, potentially, by shutting down that fran…

> I have absolutely no doubts a court would consider it impossible to transfer goods under consignment to a different entity free of the burden of the consignment contract.

Reminds me of the whole "disney must pay" debacle.

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by rdtsc »

eff-nix wrote: post #231
rdtsc wrote: post #215

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Absolutely, if they all belonged to the same atheist society and performed the same rituals together etc.

Do we have evidence these people did fellowship together?

They belong to the same organization, don’t they?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by fragmede »

eff-nix wrote: post #245
fragmede wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the weekly gathering (usually Sunday morning) the organization they pay taxes to hold?

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Where do you live that weekly public sports competitions is possibly, "idk", a function of the organization that collects taxes?

Re: Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

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Post by fragmede »

bfkwlfkjf wrote: post #72
fragmede wrote: post #51

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> I have no social media presence. You know HN is just social media for nerds, right?

No, it's not. It's just social. No media. I mean I realize there's links, don't I don't follow them, so to me it's just social without the media. Besides, the actual point which is that I have no profile, still stands.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bfkwlfkjf is plenty to build a profile of you on.
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