Is it legal?

[aunt betty]

Is it legal to have a garage sale in Louisiana?
According to the internet...no.
https://www.sott.net/article/236218-Cas ... ue-Process






Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you see online?

[DComeaux]

Is it legal to have a garage sale in Louisiana?
According to the internet...no.
https://www.sott.net/article/236218-Cas ... ue-Process






Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you see online?

HMM.. a little research is in order.

Quick search...Nope, read this

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cashillegal.asp

[SpinnerMan]

Actually it was for a short time

So while it was briefly against the law to accept cash for secondhand goods in the state of Louisiana more than once a month, that legislation was targeted at scrap thieves and was short-lived in its original form.

These silly laws never stop the criminals.

[aunt betty]

These days it's stolen if you can't prove it's yours. (including cash)
The whole "you got a receipt?" thing has both blessed and burned me depending on which side of the blue line I was on at the time.

Once I had to write a check to the neighbor guy that I had busted red-handed stealing the battery out of the garage because he had a receipt saying he'd paid to get it charged. It was apartments with one big garage. I'd spotted the battery in his car and called 5-0 on moving day.
I had a receipt saying it was mine.
Awkward situation. He claimed he'd agreed to pay me $50 for it back when a new battery cost $50.
The whole setup went like this:

"You want to sell that battery?"
"not really but if you got $50 right now it's yours"
"You're fucking crazy" and walks away waving his hand at me...you know.

The asshole was a pre-law student and told the cops we had an oral agreement. He was planning on paying after he moved.
lol

They bought his story, despite me re-telling the story like 5 times, and made me buy my battery back for $5.

[SpinnerMan]

They bought his story, despite me re-telling the story like 5 times, and made me buy my battery back for $5.

Did they buy it or simply know that they can't prove it in court because it is basically your word against his?

There really is not a whole lot cops can do in most of these situations. That's why when we catch one of these assholes we need to make an example out of them so others know that even though they probably will never get caught, but if they do they are fucked. Right now, it's they will probably never get caught and if they do, not a big deal anyways, so you end up with the dysfunctional communities like you describe.

[aunt betty]

They bought his story, despite me re-telling the story like 5 times, and made me buy my battery back for $5.

Did they buy it or simply know that they can't prove it in court because it is basically your word against his?

There really is not a whole lot cops can do in most of these situations. That's why when we catch one of these assholes we need to make an example out of them so others know that even though they probably will never get caught, but if they do they are fucked. Right now, it's they will probably never get caught and if they do, not a big deal anyways, so you end up with the dysfunctional communities like you describe.

No case because it admitted to saying I'd sell it to him for $50.
Don't matter what happened after that.

The kicker was the cops kept dogging me on "why didn't you report it?".
The answer, and everyone knows it, is "because you wouldn't do shit so why bother?" and "I never thought I'd catch the SOB working on is car in broad daylight right under our stairs where I could clearly see the battery". It was moving day FFS.
I seriously thought someone else had carted it off. Imagine my surprise when I see it in "you're fucking crazy" guy's car.
I'd never make it out of one of them 'solve your way out" games. (maybe 50/50)
Sure as hell ain't no sherlock holmes.

Back to the garage sales.
ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU GET A RECEIPT!

[Deltaman]

Sounds like you would've been much better off just ignoring the fact that you saw your battery, so he wouldn't be on the alert, and giving him a nice load of sugar in his gas tank when he wasn't looking.........especially if it was moving day..........fuck him

[aunt betty]

He was driving a pos old plymouth fury.
The cocksucker stole the juice outa my '65 Chevelle Malibu SS.
Bought that car cheap in California and drove it back. Was super clean.
He deserved to die very slowly with much misery and pain.