# Friend arrested at Circuit City **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/friend-arrested-at-circuit-city/192168 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [September 2, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/friend-arrested-at-circuit-city/192168 "2007-09-02T15:34:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi) #### Post date: [September 2, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/friend-arrested-at-circuit-city/192168/5 "2007-09-02T17:53:37Z")
> [@IROC is 95% done, 1st Startup VID plus NEW pix\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/iroc-is-95-done-1st-startup-vid-plus-new-pix/31721/74): > > If he payed for everything, what is so fucking hard about handing a reciept to someone. If you don’t own anything illegal, what’s the big deal with letting someone search your house? It’s the same idea, it’s a slippery slope, and we should be careful. If you’d read it, you’d see that he addressed that. > I understand that my day would have gone a lot smoother if I had agreed to let loss prevention inspect my bag. I understand that my day would have gone a lot smoother if I had agreed to hand over my driver’s license when asked by Officer Arroyo. However, I am not interested in living my life smoothly. I am interested in living my life on strong principles and standing up for my rights as a consumer, a U.S. citizen and a human being. Allowing stores to inspect our bags at will might seem like a trivial matter, but it creates an atmosphere of obedience which is a dangerous thing. Allowing police officers to see our papers at will might seem like a trivial matter, but it creates a fear-of-authority atmosphere which can be all too easily abused. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/friend-arrested-at-circuit-city/192168)._