My store is NOT for you to advertise in!

[Auto]

The toner/copier stories reminded of how an office I worked in NYC dealt with Chinese restaurants that were clogging up our fax machine just before lunchtime by always faxing over their menus, no matter how many times we asked them to stop.

One my co-workers finally produced a cease-and-desist request in which the text was white and the rest of the page black.

We then programmed our machine to fax them in the middle of the night -- over and over and over . . and over.

I doubt their fax machines had any toner left in them when the owner came to work the next morning.

That solved the problem with most of them. A few didn't get the message. So we had to rinse, lather, repeat a few times before they stopped bothering us.

[cinema guy]

The idiot telemarketers that ... ask for our owner by name.

I wonder if they ring up Microsoft and ask to speak to Bill Gates?

[draftermatt]

I don't think simply having a weapon present would be considered a threat. It's the same as walking past a cop with a holstered gun. The weapon is a deterrent but simply having it present and visible is not a crime.

I was referring to pulling the weapon out from a hiding spot and putting it on the counter. If it was out from the beginning sure...

[Samaliel]

He leaves a bunch of flyers with her asking her to put them up.

The smart thing for Flyer Guy to do here would have been to leave ONE flyer, for the manager to review. This way, if it's not approved by management, you've only lost one flyer, rather than a whole stack.

But if it makes sense...

[Nohbody]

Surely there's a French equivalent of "oxymoron"... Y'know, like "jumbo shrimp", "military intelligence"*, or "SCs that make sense".





* Trust me, this viewpoint isn't limited to those who've never served in the military and have a rhetorical axe to grind.

[An Haddock]

Dude, I like your style. I'm going to keep that in mind for the next time I get suckered into covering Reception for more than a few minutes. We get some damned pushy salesdroids, and while I'm not at all bad at telling 'em to vamos, it's always nice to expand my repertoire of terror.

I do caution people about displaying weaponry so as to avoid potential lawsuits/fuzz.

However, our store also sells items on Ebay, so I can just say someone dropped it off to sell.

I was referring to pulling the weapon out from a hiding spot and putting it on the counter. If it was out from the beginning sure...

It's still sheathed, so it's okay.

[Broomjockey]

It's still sheathed, so it's okay.

As always, people should check their local laws. For instance, in the Criminal Code of Canada, simply displaying (revealing possession of) a weapon and making a request of a person, making no motion towards it, nor having it ready to use, can get you a charge of menacing.

[jackfaire]

I do caution people about displaying weaponry so as to avoid potential lawsuits/fuzz.

I wonder if anyone has ever threatened a medieval weaponry store with a lawsuit for having threatening weaponry out.

I once was wearing my military knife on my belt because it was 1 in the morning and I was going to get my mom from a bad part of town where she had broken down, ironically overheated her car while giving my sister a jump. I was pulled over by a cop on my way there and luckily he never saw it cuz I did not have a permit to carry it.

[wolfie]

This past week, I collected a number of business cards from a 24 hour roadside emergency truck repair place (they'd been stuck in the "this month's specials" holders in the men's room) and handed them in to the manager (note - I was a customer of the establishment in question, not an employee), explaining that I had reason to believe the cards were there without authorization.

Why would I think they weren't authorized by the management? Because it was a TA Travel Centre, and they've got their own 24 hour emergency truck repair service - I doubt if they'd allow a direct competitor to advertise on the premises.