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[Update -- 1207 -- Jill adds details to the story with a link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.] Michael Righi went to the edge. And stepped back. I don’t know what happened behind closed doors. I don’t know what his family encouraged him to do or not do. I don’t know the financial realities he faced. [...]
Because he’ll be pleading Not Guilty, Michael Righi’s case, if it isn’t dismissed, will come before a judge in Parma’s Municipal Court, not Brooklyn’s Mayor’s Court. A legal defense fund for Righi has accumulated some $3,500 which is less than half of the $7,500 he has already been billed for by his lawyer. Consider making [...]
[Update --1430 -- I just checked and Technorati has 123 blogs flagged for Michael Righi, including: The Consumerist; Privacy Digest; Cup Of Joe Powell; The Liberal Avenger; Crunch Gear; Tempus Fugit and Are We Lumberjacks? Anybody watching Circuit City's stock?] [Update -- 1424 -- The conversation is kicking up in the NEO Bloggosphere with Jill [...]
As Rob Hawkins noted last evening, the story of Michael Righi has made it onto Slashdot. Unable to charge Righi with not providing either a receipt or a driver’s license because no law requires such intrusion, the Brooklyn police charged him with not cooperating with phony laws. From Righi’s blog: Shortly after being booked, fingerprints [...]
Yesterday I posted about Michael Righi, an out-of-town visitor to Cleveland, who was arrested after a refusal to show a receipt escalated into a confrontation with a Brooklyn, Ohio, police officer. Jill Miller Zimon commented and then a series of emails flowed back and forth. Last evening Jill posted about the incident. This morning she [...]
We’ve all seen the signs stating that a business reserves the right to do things that it really has no right to do. One of those faux rights is to examine our packages after we’ve paid for our purchases and headed out the door. Rather than hire security to actually stop shoplifters corporations go cheap [...]
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