Would you steal something on a technicality?
 

https://richmondbizsense.com/2025/05/08/inc-or-llc-the-question-sparked-a-lawsuit-between-current-and-former-owners-of-longtime-petersburg-diner/

I read this and am so made, I feel like I'm the one getting screwed.

Someone needs to burn down the Yeargin's home. What dirtbags.

Well if they can’t sell them a non-existing restaurant then they don’t own it and they should vacate it.

Super weird that they were paying and then stopped, and when asked why they stopped, they said it was due to the technicality.

I shoplifted a roll of lifesavers when I was about 4, not understanding you had to pay for things. My parents drove back to the grocery store and made me talk to the store manager and apologize for stealing. One of the best early life lessons I received. It is amazing how much common sense is lost in our legal system.

Non legal contract- you can't have a contract that gives you something for nothing. Also, it's a clerical error- not the spirit of the deal.

Unless you're in govt and getting kickbacks.

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Social media is made for these kinds of instances. Yelp, for instance.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/dixie-restaurant-petersburg-2

"This restaurant USED to be great, until the Yeargin family stole it from the former owners. The place has gone downhill and now there is no reason to support this place. I urge anyone considering this restaurant to read the May 8, 2025 article on Richmond Bizsense."

Same, I think I was 4.

I suspect these people are sleeping fine at night thinking "it's not illegal, so we're good."

Not only is that going nowhere but they're never going to have a local eat there again. Creeps.

Yes, that is so over-the-top bad faith behavior that it will have repercussions far beyond the legal ones.
The fact that they started paying seems to me to prove they understood the contract the way it was intended. I don't see how they come out on top on this.

Made me smile.

I was five or six, shopping at the grocery store with my Mom. At check out, the Bazooka gum spoke to me, so I decided to help liberate one from the store...gratis.

My mistake was deciding to pop half a Bazooka in my maw on the way home...act like you've stolen before FTLOG.

Like you, u-turns and a store manager were in my immediate future. I can still feel the sense of dread...

I watched my older sister do that, I didn't need to learn that for myself.

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I think the new owners are screwed, even if they paid the old owners in full with a bonus payment.

I know they say there is no such thing as bad advertising, but I don't believe it.
I don't think they are going to be able to generate 52k a year to pay the sellers after something like this.

Little more to this story.

PO can’t sell something they did not own.

I know they say there is no such thing as bad advertising, but I don't believe it.
I don't think they are going to be able to generate 52k a year to pay the sellers after something like this.

I'd carry a sign and warn all the rest that don't know too!

$ue me :D

Lower than scum they are ... yep!

The Yeargins are going to lose their case and are destined for bankruptcy

Yes Patrick, because the current POTUS is a demented madman bent on the destruction of the republic.

Wait, that was the last one.

Switch to decaf and stop watching "the news"

20 years ago I went to Lowe’s and filled my cart with $900 worth of laminate flooring. Went to pay and the cashier said the total was $49 and change. I said are you sure because that is nowhere close to being correct. She then got offended and then got nasty and insisted that I was wrong and she was right so so I paid the $49 and left with it. I admit it was her nasty attitude towards me that made me not find a manager or another cashier and not my unwillingness to pay what I expected to pay. All these years later I still wonder about my decision. I guess I did steal on a technicality sort of

Would I do what the people in the article did? Never.