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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2013-09-11

Send in our BIGGER black man!


Doomstein - 2013-09-11

Activate the "Bigger Black Signal"!


Nikon - 2013-09-11

I was expecting a Chris-chan video, but this works too.


MacGyver Style Bomb - 2013-09-11

Speaking of such...

Looks like this past weekend he got banned from the local Wal-Mart after vandalizing a XBox One display. Naturally, he thinks he's the victim.


cognitivedissonance - 2013-09-11

I was expecting John Stossel, personally.


Old_Zircon - 2013-09-11

Based on the description I'm taking his side. The store buys and sells used electronics and refused to buy his Blu Ray player because he didn't have the cable it shipped with (which is complete bullshit, every store that deals with electronics has a huge bin of scrap cables in back). during the ensuing argument, one of the employees grabbed the player (the poster claims he was going to throw it at them, the video doe not support this) so he grabbed the laptop. He overreacted but the employees were being assholes and pretty much started it according to their own story, and escalated it as well according to the video.


spikestoyiu - 2013-09-11

I can't tell what's being said, but it looks like the customer gets aggressive first. It looks as if they're giving him the Blu Ray player back and saying "we don't want it". Which is in their right, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. Maybe they have like 1,000 Blu Ray players. I dunno. I used to work at a used record store and I can't tell you how many copies of "The Spaghetti Incident" and "Dookie" we had to turn away. Yeah, we buy used CDs, but we don't fucking want it.


EvilHomer - 2013-09-11

I don't know what what's going on, but I make it a rule never to disagree with a bouncer that size. Based on this principle alone, I'm going to say that the store employees were in the right, and please sir please don't take my lunch money.


StanleyPain - 2013-09-11

It's also possible the guy is a known thief and an asshole and they're rejecting him based on that alone. The store where I work at buys back media and hardware too and we all KNOW who the fucktards are and sometimes we tell them to get lost, polite or no. If no cable is the excuse of the day, then it's the excuse of the day.


chairsforcheap - 2013-09-11

wouldn't this be considered assault in the US?


EvilHomer - 2013-09-11

Possibly. I'm a legal expert on bouncers, having just spent ten minutes on Google reading up about bouncers and assault charges. It varies from state to state, but apparently bouncers have no legal authority to use excessive force against patrons, and assault charges are common. Since the big guy probably wasn't employed, let alone licensed, as a bouncer, even appealing to the common law Bouncer's Code wouldn't save him.

Of course, since the victim is black and probably an asshole, I doubt any courts will take him seriously, even if he does decide to go that route. Which he probably won't, because honestly, who gets bounced and then runs to a lawyer?


BHWW - 2013-09-11

I've done my time in the trenches of retail where used things are bought and sold, electronics, media and you'll always have people who come in with something and get upset when they're told the store has no use for the item or it's not worth as much as they thought it would be. At store that bought video and hardware I worked at we rejected plenty of items, including the sketchy looking guy who brought in 10 VHS copies of Jaws that looked even sketchier, like they were pirated copies and transformed into a screaming maniac after he was told "no".

And for a brief season I worked at a shop that was half-new and used bookstore and half comic shop, divided by a wall with a couple of doorways in it. You would get the occasional indignant person wanting to know why the store wouldn't accept stacks of old Reader's Digest Condensed Books collections, or copies of books like The Bridges of Madison County or The Celestine Prophecy or some other bestseller they'd had too many people try to bring in.
And on the comics side you had people who would get really angry because they thought that something they had brought in like a copy of Spiderman #1 by Todd MacFarlane or the Death of Superman issue in it's original black slipcover (or five copies of it) or THE ORIGINAL (actually a decades later reprint) of Amazing Fantasy 15 (Spiderman's debut) or Action Comics #1 or something like that was worth at least 0 and would scream/cry/throw something/etc when they were told "nope".

In one case it was some guy who brought in original "near mint condition" copies of some of really average comics published during the so-called black and white boom of the late 1980s: low-rent small press superhero comics, shameless Ninja Turtles knock-offs, tedious horror comic anthologies, etc. i.e. stuff that wasn't worth much at all he was told a) the store wouldn't accept these and b) he would have gotten barley any money anyways, he had his Pawn Stars moment and threw a copy of one of the comics at the manager's face and while shouting about how this was "BULLSHIT" and ran out with his box o' comics threatening to call the Better Business Bureau because they would do...something.


spikestoyiu - 2013-09-11

"wouldn't this be considered assault in the US?"

The dude who was thrown out called the cops. The cops showed up, reviewed the tape, and decided not to press charges.


sosage - 2013-09-11

I think a lot of people would chill the fuck out if we had a "one punch limit" before a mutual altercation became assault. Time to hit kickstarter to fund getting this law through...


spikestoyiu - 2013-09-11

There's always Washington state's mutual combat law.


Old_Zircon - 2013-09-12

I worked at a used record store for 5 years and video stores for most of high school and half of college, believe me I know only too well. The Youtube description says it is standard store policy to not accept players without cables, and I know from experience that those policies are flexible based on whether the clerk feels like being an asshole or not.


Old_Zircon - 2013-09-12

"the sketchy looking guy who brought in 10 VHS copies of Jaws that looked even sketchier"

WE had that guy at one place I worked a long time ago. He and his son would bring in 50 sealed CDs they had bought but didn't like, all alphabetical and starting with the same letter.

Of course we bought some of them and when they asked what we wanted next time we told them because fuck that Virgin Megastore they were probably taking it from.

For the most part that kind of stuff didn't happen though, they were a special case and only came in for a week. Most of the theft related business was keeping the kids from wrestling camp from stealing our Eminem CDs.


dairyqueenlatifah - 2013-09-11

Checking the Youtube comments for racism...

Yep.


namtar - 2013-09-12

If someone is being aggressive in your store you should ask him to leave and call the cops if he doesn't.

Dragging him out worked in this case, but what if he had a knife?

Then the title of this video would be: "Man Throws Tantrum In Electronics Store and stabs someone"

There's no reason to risk your life over a laptop or dvd player.


spikestoyiu - 2013-09-12

Don't tell me what the title of my submission would have been


Rodents of Unusual Size - 2013-09-12

I should not have been turned on by this...


...right?


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