Better Days
06-25-2006, 03:19 AM
I found an internet gem. :lol: I found this funny page while researching Best Buy. The best part is the reader comments after the story.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/30/how-not-to-get-best-buy-to-fix-your-broken-tv/We've all been completely pissed off with Best Buy for one reason or another, but no matter how infuriatingly incompetent their people can be, it's probably not a good idea to follow Marlene Anne Bagnall's strategy for getting what you want out of them. She found out the hard way that while pulling a gun on the Best Buy television repairman and telling him that, "You're not leaving until the TV is fixed," actually isn't a good way to get your TV fixed, it is an excellent way to get yourself charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment. The repairman, who had already tried and failed to fix her TV several times, calmed her down by calling Best Buy and getting them to agree to give her a new TV, then left and called the cops
Reader Comments
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Don't you just LOVE the US? Where people go as far as pulling out a gun just to get their Television fixed!? Brilliant!
So, is this legal in Florida now?
It would have worked if she remembered to cap his ass after he ordered the replacement TV. She could have removed the old body by putting it in the box the old TV came in. Most BestBuy employees can't differentiate dead bodies from TVs. Hell, it probably wouldn't be that big of a jump for the repair person, if they worked for best buy they were probably brain dead already so she would have gotten off with a warning.
Man I HATE "best buy".
So many Nut Jobs in the US, and they're allowed to own guns?!
Seriously, that employee should be lucky that he didn't get shot, because some of those gun owners are lunatics and will shoot first and ask questions later.
Shooting a best buy employee first and then asking them a question won't change the amount of information you'd get from a best buy employee. Asking a best buy employee a question is about as useful as trying to get your dog to do your homework for you.
So many Nut Jobs in the US, and they're allowed to own guns?!
LOL. And I thought the british were nuts for having crazy frog ringtone at the top of the charts.
You really think the NRA would allow them to pass a law preventing mental patients from getting a gun?
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/30/how-not-to-get-best-buy-to-fix-your-broken-tv/We've all been completely pissed off with Best Buy for one reason or another, but no matter how infuriatingly incompetent their people can be, it's probably not a good idea to follow Marlene Anne Bagnall's strategy for getting what you want out of them. She found out the hard way that while pulling a gun on the Best Buy television repairman and telling him that, "You're not leaving until the TV is fixed," actually isn't a good way to get your TV fixed, it is an excellent way to get yourself charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment. The repairman, who had already tried and failed to fix her TV several times, calmed her down by calling Best Buy and getting them to agree to give her a new TV, then left and called the cops
Reader Comments
(Page 1)
Don't you just LOVE the US? Where people go as far as pulling out a gun just to get their Television fixed!? Brilliant!
So, is this legal in Florida now?
It would have worked if she remembered to cap his ass after he ordered the replacement TV. She could have removed the old body by putting it in the box the old TV came in. Most BestBuy employees can't differentiate dead bodies from TVs. Hell, it probably wouldn't be that big of a jump for the repair person, if they worked for best buy they were probably brain dead already so she would have gotten off with a warning.
Man I HATE "best buy".
So many Nut Jobs in the US, and they're allowed to own guns?!
Seriously, that employee should be lucky that he didn't get shot, because some of those gun owners are lunatics and will shoot first and ask questions later.
Shooting a best buy employee first and then asking them a question won't change the amount of information you'd get from a best buy employee. Asking a best buy employee a question is about as useful as trying to get your dog to do your homework for you.
So many Nut Jobs in the US, and they're allowed to own guns?!
LOL. And I thought the british were nuts for having crazy frog ringtone at the top of the charts.
You really think the NRA would allow them to pass a law preventing mental patients from getting a gun?