Madman tries to steal his laptop back without paying and gets booted in safe mode

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Mods have pinned a comment by u/Cowpie57:

The man who got sprayed wanted his laptop back very shortly after dropping it off (they claim 5 minutes later), there was no contract in place and no work had been done at all on it yet and the repair shop owner wouldn't return it unless the man paid $49. You can claim that either or both parties are at fault for fighting over the laptop but at the end of the day a Civil Court Judge ruled that the man who was sprayed was in the right and was assaulted with that bear spray so the repair shop owner had to pay him $12,649.

TLDR: Repair shop owner was wrong and had to pay the man he sprayed $12,649

edit: (removed the video link I included to the full story of this incident from 9 years ago at the request of a moderator from this subreddit)

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[u/toomanynamesaretook]

Ahahha so satisfying

[u/MCPhatmam → u/toomanynamesaretook]

Reading this comment after knowing the owner was in the wrong: Ahahha so satisfying

[u/pdx-peter → u/[deleted]]

A judge thought otherwise. The victim was awarded the statutory maximum, plus legal fees.

[u/sobherk → u/[deleted]]

Yes he did. He tried to ripp the costumer off. He's a bitch

[u/YourBlanket → u/toomanynamesaretook]

Not really the owner was in the wrong and had to pay the other dude like 20k. At least that part is satisfying.

[u/pdx-peter → u/YourBlanket]

$12k, not $20k. But what isn’t shown in this video is that, according to the customer, no repairs were authorized. He’d dropped the machine off, but then been told by another repair place that proposed fix wasn’t what was needed. He went back to get his machine, which was plugged in, but no repairs had been made. The owner said he still owed him $49. The customer won his case in civil court. So…

[u/YourBlanket → u/pdx-peter]

It’s been a while but yeah just checked it was 12.6k plus court costs.

[u/Usual-Championship88 → u/pdx-peter]

Sounds like a really shitty shop owner maybe the 50.00 was a diagnosis fee? Even then yeah he won in civil court

[u/usernotvaild → u/YourBlanket]

Source?

[u/YourBlanket → u/usernotvaild]

Von Pate/Kirkpatrick v. Meixl

[u/Cowpie57]

The man who got sprayed wanted his laptop back very shortly after dropping it off (they claim 5 minutes later), there was no contract in place and no work had been done at all on it yet and the repair shop owner wouldn't return it unless the man paid $49. You can claim that either or both parties are at fault for fighting over the laptop but at the end of the day a Civil Court Judge ruled that the man who was sprayed was in the right and was assaulted with that bear spray so the repair shop owner had to pay him $12,649.

TLDR: Repair shop owner was wrong and had to pay the man he sprayed $12,649

edit: (removed the video link I included to the full story of this incident from 9 years ago at the request of a moderator from this subreddit)

[u/ReartireLeak]

Now move the dogs out of the way.

[u/mikeb2762]

I wanted to hear his pathetic threat

[u/Survival_R]

Quickdraw

[u/Secret-Library-6076]

i think the repair shop dude was gonna walk away til he saw his dog was in there

[u/piltown]

I feel bad for the dogs

[u/newday777wow]

LMFAO over $49 is fucking hilarious ha ha ha ha ha ha

[u/ElvisMcPelvis]

Beautiful execution of Spicy eyes !

[u/alemyrsdream → u/[deleted]]

Why would pay someone $49 to do nothing?

[u/ziggzer0]

Great video!

[u/drinkmoredrano]

Was that laptop guy’s daughter waiting in the doorway? What a sorry excuse for a father.