The banality of evil, Lego edition
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I wasn't aware of Sayre's Law but it certainly seems to apply here. I wonder what the value of the collection might be. Should be enough history to get a reasonable approximation.
This does seem to be a clash of egos. BaM took a hardass position, probably out of laziness, and now won't back down. I suspect they could have ended it more constructively by paying the family rather than the lawyers.
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The collection is valued in the low six figures.
This morning's installment from Ben (the youtuber) is leaked audio from the local police body cams, which the department had redacted previously. It shows the new franchisee who allegedly stole the legos talking to cops and weaving impossible to believe fantasies about the youtuber threatening to murder everybody in the store. Trying to get someone arrested with invented threats can't possibly be legal.
After the cop discovers that the papers are real and the process server is real (contrary to the franchisee's claim they are "a trillion percent fake"), the cop does nothing with that information and says that he'll comb the statutes to find a reason to arrest him anyway.
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Bricks and Minifigs corporate has capitulated. The franchise at the center of this has been forcibly shut down and all business ties with its owners have been severed. BaM corporate is offering whatever Star Wars legos are in the store to the guy who consigned his collection there, whether there is proof they are his or not.
Their side is explained in two separate blog posts yesterday.
https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/Seems likely based on how they worded all that, that they are going to continue to go after the youtuber. That'll keep this interesting.
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Nate the Lawyer gets into the possible police corruption:
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Nate's installment today agrees with me that the police corruption is obvious, and is the most interesting part of this situation going forward. I hope they get slapped. And thanks, BLM, for the body cams. I know this isn't exactly what you had in mind, and what you had in mind hasn't really panned out, but happy accidents are good.
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... And, Ben has capitulated as well. Sadly predictably.
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