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Three words: "Bad Trader Alert"...
Seriously, to the best of my knowledge, Extortion is a crime
here in the US of A, and since we originally based many of our laws
on the laws in our former mother country, I'm thinking that
Extortion would probably be a crime there in the UK also.
OTOH, this may instead qualify as Theft, and not Extortion.
(I'm not a lawyer, so what do I know, eh?)
In either case, I recommend that you forward this matter
to your attorney, *and* that you post the identity of this crook
so that he can't easily do this to some *other* innocent,
unsuspecting LUGNetter... (Would *you* have traded with this guy
if you had known he'd done something like this to someone else?...)
Franklin
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Message has 3 Replies: | | Re: My Lego is being held hostage!
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| (...) When a person exerts unauthorized control of anothers property without permission it is theft. If a person asks for an exchange of items or goods for the return of property its extortion. Either way its a crime and if I was the victim, I'd be (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| I know both the people involved, and I'll just let them fight it out for now. You are right though, I suppose I could claim it was theft/extortion. My only problem is that I'm sure this could have been sorted out without me even knowing about it - (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) The story as described is truly outrageous and I think the participants holding the lego "hostage" have nerve beyond explanation. But, unless they refuse to come through on the deal there is no cause to list their names anywhere as "bad (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| My Lego is being held hostage! I thought I'd share this, I'm not looking for sympathy. This is a rather bizarre story which, I'm sure, will end well. It involves 3 AFOLS: Mr A Mr B Myself I did a trade with both A & B for a large amount of Lego. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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