On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:11:02 GMT, "Tom H" wrote:

}Isn't there even the slimmest possibility that, given those admittedly
}unlikey conditions, the scurrilous fraudsters just MIGHT be successfull?

With our legal system where people get awarded millions for hurting
themselves doing something stupid, YES, anything is possible. All it would
take is for a civil jury to find the store's actions to be "unreasonable"
and whammo. Now if they found the sensor behind your belt it may just work
in reverse...

In police work we talk about preferring to be "judged by 12 rather than
carried by 6." That is what it comes down to sometimes in deadly force
issues where a split second decision costs you dearly years down the road.
Your decision has be based on reason or you are screwed...

Later,
Dave