This actually reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine in West Virginia... Granted it was his own fault but still it was the rent a cops that went nuts.
This friend of ours is a big Star Wars fan and he was talking to one of the cashiers at the WalMart. He mentioned that he had an entire Vader costume in the trunk of the car and he could bring it in and show her. She agreed and he goes out to the car, puts on the entire thing and then runs into the out door because he can't see in the mask. As he finally gets to the entrance a rent a cop stands there with a gun threatening him. Then several cops show up. My husband and a few other people are there with him and they are drug out and searched several times. After several minutes and going through their car they determine that they did nothing wrong.
They tell said friend of ours to "Go fulfill his galatic fantasies elsewhere". One of our friends was banned from that WalMart however, a fellow friend of ours had a grandmother who owned most of the Walmart in question. She had the people involved in the fiasco fired for involving the rest of the group when it was obvious that they had nothing to do with how stupid our friend had acted (had they have been there he would NOT have walked into the store like that, they were getting things from other parts of the store and did not know what moron boy was planning).
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2002-08-26 10:00 pm (UTC)I'd say its more the idiot rent-a-hero (cops) that were invovled
for just asuming everyones guilty unless proven inocent.
and i'm willing to bet many facts aren't shown. but still they over did it imo :-)
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Date: 2002-08-26 10:33 pm (UTC)This friend of ours is a big Star Wars fan and he was talking to one of the cashiers at the WalMart. He mentioned that he had an entire Vader costume in the trunk of the car and he could bring it in and show her. She agreed and he goes out to the car, puts on the entire thing and then runs into the out door because he can't see in the mask. As he finally gets to the entrance a rent a cop stands there with a gun threatening him. Then several cops show up. My husband and a few other people are there with him and they are drug out and searched several times. After several minutes and going through their car they determine that they did nothing wrong.
They tell said friend of ours to "Go fulfill his galatic fantasies elsewhere". One of our friends was banned from that WalMart however, a fellow friend of ours had a grandmother who owned most of the Walmart in question. She had the people involved in the fiasco fired for involving the rest of the group when it was obvious that they had nothing to do with how stupid our friend had acted (had they have been there he would NOT have walked into the store like that, they were getting things from other parts of the store and did not know what moron boy was planning).