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Subject: 
Re: My Lego is being held hostage!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:49:35 GMT
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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 - but instead I'm getting used as a lever by "A".

Scott A


Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:FrDD9o.8s5@lugnet.com...
> 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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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 (...) (27 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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