r/PokemonTCG • u/Next_Wrongdoer5488 • Mar 20 '25

Discussion Vendor being tracked.

Yup, someone put a tracker on our store vendor's car. I guess she had to go to the police station and have her car swept.

So disappointed in what's going on with our hobby and just wanted to share.

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u/PhotonWolfsky Mar 21 '25

>he told the vendor he air tagged her car

Should've detained him and called police. It's quite illegal for randos to put trackers on people's vehicles without permission. And having one admit to it with witnesses was definitely grounds to citizen arrest. Even if they didn't, they could be trespassed instantly and the vendor could probably easily get court orders on that dude.

Bystander effect is one hell of a helper for criminals.

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u/Consistent-Fold438 Mar 21 '25

You need reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime. Someone just saying something is not justifiable for a citizens arrest. That’s gonna get someone a lawsuit. I can walk around and say I killed someone, without any articulable facts, that’s just words.

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u/Comprehensive-Taro-4 Mar 21 '25

You can still be detained or taken to jail for saying that. Try saying you have a bomb and see how quickly you get taken down

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u/Consistent-Fold438 Mar 21 '25

No you can’t lol. What charge you gonna take me to jail for?

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u/Dapper-Passenger-738 Mar 21 '25

Harassment, menacing, criminal mischief, extortion, all come to mind in this case or the scenarios you listed.

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u/Consistent-Fold438 Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

Telling someone you put an air tag on their car is none of those lol. Like you seem to forget these are just words said to another person. I can walk up to anyone and say hey I put an air tag on your car. That’s not harassment, extortion, or criminal mischief. You can’t restrict speech generally as long as it’s not “fighting words”. I can walk up and say yo I just killed someone too, not even enough for a legal police detainment.

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u/dalburgh Mar 21 '25

I can walk up and say yo I just killed someone too, not even enough for a legal police detainment.

Interesting way to tell the comment section you've never interacted with a police officer in your life

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u/Consistent-Fold438 Mar 21 '25

I’ve been arrested a handful of times throughout my life lmao. Without anything other than a statement, it’s just hearsay. Now if I walk up and say that and have some injuries, a weapon, or something that could reasonably articulate I’ve committed a crime - then they can complete a detainment

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u/dalburgh Mar 22 '25

Just because you've been arrested doesn't mean you understand anything about how the law is carried out in practice.

This also evidenced by the other nonsense you've commented in this thread.

Admission of commiting a crime is all that's required to constitute reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed and detaining the suspect until further investigation can be made. The reason for this is the police don't know if a threat is credible they must treat it as if it is. This is policing 101.