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All aboard the Fail Train. Making stops at Repostville, Repostville, Repostville, Repostville and Repostville.

Negative publicity is a powerful motivator.

What mayor? (nudge nudge, wink wink)

You, Sir, should be a doctor, considering how effortlessly you revived a thread that had been dead for a year. I had a hamster when I was a kid, could you work your magic on him too?

http://www.mecum.com/pdf/forms/sample_seller_forms.PDF The contract at this place (which I'm sure you've all heard of) states that any car listed with a reserve price shall be sold to the highest bidder once it has met that price. The seller may choose to LOWER the reserve price during the bidding but may not RAISE it. No-reserve auctions sell to the highest bidder regardless of price. If either the buyer or the seller refuse to complete the sale then the defaulting party pays Mecum's comission (12% of sale price?) and other fees. You'd have to check state law to see if there are specific rules for auctions.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/article2.htm#s2-712

But if there was no reserve then the sale is final. Depending on if the auction creates a binding contract.

What gear was he wearing?

John, and any others that have stated the same, are correct... http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/non-binding-bid.html The dealer owes him nothing, and it is only their reputation that is at risk. Having said that, the ebay guidelines specifically state what is not allowed, inlcuding: However, this is an ebay policy and their only recourse is action taken against the ebay account, such as suspension or closure. Completing the sale (at a loss) was the right thing to do, but was not enforceable.

If you are contractually obligated to complete a sale then the person who breaks that contract is liable in a tort action IF the other person suffers damages as a result. If I enter into contract to buy a used car and the seller spends money prepping the car for me and then I back out then the seller can recover damages. He would have to prove that he lost money that he cannot recover from a future sale, for example if I asked him to have smoke smell removed from the car, or install an accessory. If the seller pulls out *of a contract* then they buyer can be entitled to damages, such as the extra money it costs to buy a similar vehicle. The dealership should be happy they only lost $3900 because IF the contract was binding then the buyer could have run out and paid full market value for an identical car and sued the seller for the difference between the auction price and the cost of the identical car. I knew a guy who was trying to buy a house. He signed a contract stating that he'd buy the house if items X Y and Z were fixed, and the offer was valid for X days. The seller fixed the items but there was dispute over whether they actually responded to him before the offer expired. He refused to buy the house and was sued by the seller for the cost of the repairs he requested, plus the difference in value between his offer and the eventual selling price. He lost and was was out $30k

In Lithuania anyone rich enough to have a mercedes would just have the mayor killed. It's obviously staged by the way the owner shakes the mayor's had afterwards.

Cites?

What gear was he wearing? All the grafting and debridement makes it sound like he had little gear on.

Bullshit. Publicity stunt. EDIT: They picture is shopped to remove a second passenger, in a blue shirt, who was riding directly behind the mayor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU (Of course if this was real life the owner of the car could sue for the value of the car, either as an "accident" claim, or a restitution for a vandalism claim)

That's not what eBay says.

Ferrings != Fairings Or are you talking about a furry herring?

Check the boundaries. maek sure you're on agreement where the property line it. If your fence is on their property then they are within their rights to demand it be moved. Or just give them the fence and let it become their problem to maintain.

Explain how that works then, because I know of a man who was hanged because he was a joint principal in a simple theft, was arrested, and after his arrest the other prinicpal shot and killed a police officer. In the looting mob scenario, they don't have to be participating in the crime. Castle Doctrine doesn't judge the actions of the attacker, only the defender. If the defender is presented with a valid self defense scenario and his bullet is a through--and-through then he's not going to be held responsible to an unintended death downrange. Now, if you set up with SAW and mow down everyone in sight then you're gonna be in trouble - but if you are shooting at targeted inidividuals that are attackign you, and you miss, well the shot was still justified. We don't punish the result, we punish the intent. Self defense is a standard defense to the mens rea of what would otherwise be murder. The actus reus is not a matter of dispute. Is there a legal precedent for a valid self-defense shoot that misses the bad guy and hits an innocent?

Don't have to prove my life was threatened. Prosecutor has to prove it wasn't.

Castle doctrine applies to the shooter, not the attacker or attackers. If the shooter is in his home or place of business and his life is threatened then he can defend his life. There is no bag limit.

I believe that in a looting situation you should be able to defend your livelihood. If, while defending your livelihood, your personal safety is in jeapordy then you should be able to defend youself. Bodies make great sandbags with which to fortify your position. Otherwise what do we do? Stand back and let mobs sack whole cities? If it is this easy, they'll do it again.

Bait and swtich! Waif out front, Whale out back.

After mileage too? When I picked up my bike from the dealership I just rented a u-haul trailer for the day - $30.

My bad -Marshall Law is the wrong term. I mean people should be able to grab a gun and defend their livelihoods against looters without fear of prosecution. And yeah, lots of ammo. But how many people are going to descend? After a while they will have to climb over the bodies.

Stockholm Syndrome from being turned out?