On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:45:09 -0500, Mark wrote:

}admissible (unless the store KNEW it was defective in advance).

I went back and re-read what you posted earlier. You left out the last 1/2
of that statement and what attorney's like to argue in court "or should
have known." The issue here is reliability and in my mind there is none
with these security devices. What if a judge and/or jury felt the same way
as I do based on the specifics of the case? Then you are open to all kinds
of civil problems which was my point. It would a crap shoot based on these
circumstance and risky.

}And what about someone driving a car identical to that of a bank robbery
}suspect who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Would it
}be wrong to stop and detain them as well for any period of time?

Not at all because in this example a crime had indeed occurred and the
vehicle fit the description given. In the previous example, no one saw
anything criminal or even suspicious but you say people can be physically
detained based solely upon an alarm at the door. Big difference...

Anyway, this is way off topic for a scanner group (I didn't cross post) so
I will drop it...

Later,
Dave