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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Can a landlord refuse cash?
- Message-ID: <184890@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 01:40:23 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
- Lines: 27
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- >In article <1993Jan8.235403.9630@tellab5.tellabs.com> chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
- >
- >>There's no debt because they're not
- >>your Chee-tos yet. (BTW if you ate them before paying you
- >>have committed retail theft, for which you may be prosecuted).
- >
- In article <1993Jan9.112353.7411@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- >Actually, I've heard that it's perfectly legal to go into a store and do
- >something like this. I go into PDQ's all the time and fill up a cup of pop
- >and start drinking it long before I pay for it... It becomes a crime the
- >minute you walk out the door without having paid. (Of course, the store
- >has a right to demand payment _immediately_ and kick you out as soon as
- >you've done so... no doubt they would, if you went to a store and started
- >eating bag after bag of Chee-tos! :-) )
-
- You can go into a store and eat pretty much anything you
- want...as long as you don't try to leave without paying or
- otherwise defraud the store.
-
- The original post was about doing this with only a $100 bill on
- you and the store has insufficient change.
-
- This is a touchy issue. If they can convince a court you
- INTENDED to offer a bill larger than their change amount, you can
- be charged. Same is true of gas stations, etc. etc. If you take
- goods, it is YOUR problem to make payment arrangements agreeable
- to the store unless you like the inside of jails.
-