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FromMyColdDeadHand
08-27-2011, 17:20
Just got back from Home Depot. They have these new cameras at the self-checkout taking your picture. I asked about them and I was told IT IS THE LAW? They will loose their business license if they don't have them?

This was in Glendale, near where I live, but WTF? We can't ask people if they are illegal, but HD is snapping my pic all over the place for their records.

Is there some kind of new law?
El Caballo Loco
08-27-2011, 17:22
Subscribing.
BushMasterBoy
08-27-2011, 17:26
Anybody ever build one of these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE3F7vjYx4U
Irving
08-27-2011, 17:29
I get all my legal advise from Home Depot.
Ridge
08-27-2011, 17:47
I get all my legal advise from Home Depot.

I need a plumber, a drywall guy, and a legal consultant.
Colorado_Outback
08-27-2011, 17:49
I need a plumber, a drywall guy, and a legal consultant.


If your making a trip I need a toilet flange [Tooth]
Bailey Guns
08-27-2011, 18:08
Ha... I was just in Home Depot today to buy a locking latch for a window in my garage. I picked it up and started talking to a guy about some hardware. Then I walked right out the front door without paying for the latch.

I didn't even realize it until I went to put it in the bag on my bike. I expected the HD SWAT team to take me down at any moment. I think I got back inside and paid for it before they could get geared up.
FromMyColdDeadHand
08-27-2011, 18:23
Ha... I was just in Home Depot today to buy a locking latch for a window in my garage. I picked it up and started talking to a guy about some hardware. Then I walked right out the front door without paying for the latch.

I didn't even realize it until I went to put it in the bag on my bike. I expected the HD SWAT team to take me down at any moment. I think I got back inside and paid for it before they could get geared up.


You are why we are all losing our rights!!!!! [LOL]
OneGuy67
08-27-2011, 19:58
Just got back from Home Depot. They have these new cameras at the self-checkout taking your picture. I asked about them and I was told IT IS THE LAW? They will loose their business license if they don't have them?

This was in Glendale, near where I live, but WTF? We can't ask people if they are illegal, but HD is snapping my pic all over the place for their records.

Is there some kind of new law?

Maybe a Glendale municipal code thing? It certainly isn't a state statute that I'm aware of.
FromMyColdDeadHand
08-27-2011, 20:01
Maybe a Glendale municipal code thing? It certainly isn't a state statute that I'm aware of.

Glendale is just this side of North Korea for goffy governance, but I would think HD would tell them to piss off- they aren't going to do that for one store.
Daniel_187
08-27-2011, 20:59
Ha... I was just in Home Depot today to buy a locking latch for a window in my garage. I picked it up and started talking to a guy about some hardware. Then I walked right out the front door without paying for the latch.

I didn't even realize it until I went to put it in the bag on my bike. I expected the HD SWAT team to take me down at any moment. I think I got back inside and paid for it before they could get geared up.

Hide your dog
Big Wall
08-27-2011, 21:23
My wife works part time at the Home Depot while she is going to school. I guess I shouldn't say too much, but there are a whole lot of people who know that everything there is free, or switch bar codes so that $400 items ring up as $1.97 at the self check out. Lawn mowers bought in the spring mysteriously have problems in the fall and are returned for a new snow blower which then has a problem in the spring and is returned for a new lawn mower. The Home Depot allows all of this to happen and then doesn't pay their employees crap because of it. You wouldn't believe some of the stories.
FromMyColdDeadHand
08-28-2011, 00:35
I actually worked in Home Depot last century when I was in College, after they put the local hardware store I worked at out of business.

I'm guessing that there is now law (duh!) and I'm going to make a stink about that dumbass lying to me about the legal reasoning. Any guesses as to how much of a gift card I can get out of them? I can be quite an ass and very demanding when I want to be, I learned it from my first wife- who I'm still married to.
gnihcraes
08-28-2011, 00:59
I recently had an encounter with a graffiti problem. Turned over some evidence to LPD. One item was the lid to a gallon can of paint, purchased from home depot. LPD did their investigation and called me some time later. They had information on the purchase of the paint from Depot, including the video snap shots of the purchasers of the paint. Old man and lady. So that ruled out them as suspects painting up the hood early in the morning.

They have the same cameras at my bank now too, right in your face at the counter. I usually wave at it or put an eyeball up to it just for kicks.

Cameras are everywhere, don't do bad things.
FromMyColdDeadHand
08-28-2011, 07:00
Cameras are everywhere, don't do bad things.

[Eek3]

The more cameras, the more I want to do bad things. I think the more you monitor people and make them feel less trustworthy, the worse behavior you get. Just look at TSA checkpoints, another place that makes my blood boil.

Any may I point out that with all this increased surveillance they still didn't get the info they needed. Amazing how criminals just break more laws. Must need more cameras.

And while I don't like cameras everywhere, the real issue I had, and the reason I posted, was the rationale they gave me. I don't like being lied to.