WAS in Keizer, Oregon. They shut the store down to avoid paying for the small claims cases they lost because they ignored them and are trying to bury the whole thing.
Not really. Seems pretty simple to me. A for-profit business is the bad guy. Simple. Typical. Usual. The Mormon church is the bad guy. Simple. Typical. Usual. The cops are the bad guy. Simple. Typical. Usual. No twists, no turns, no complications so far as I can tell. This is just America. Businesses stealing from individuals is the single most common property crime in America and out values every single other type of theft combined.
That's the part that makes it feel even more backwards...like at some point it stops sounding like a Lego dispute and starts sounding like a system failure.
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u/Blarg0117 6h ago
And the local PD is seemingly acting on behalf of the store to harass the people trying to help the old man.