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Worse than that- even if you are adjacent to a crime that took place and not the suspect, they can also invade your privacy - rifle through all of your private

Worse than that- even if you are adjacent to a crime that took place and not the suspect, they can also invade your privacy - rifle through all of your private data online and so on. I had a friend who owns a PC repair shop who bought a laptop from another 'friend' that was sold to him illegally. (He did not know it was illegally stolen from the next state over) The state police came in (with FBI in tow) and seized all of his equipment. Every last computer (all of his own, as well as customers that had their pc in for repair) in the shop was checked over. They held onto his equipment (along with 3 other customers) for 6 months, and he had to make do with a laptop to keep his business running. Fortunately, he had backed up his PC repair software to another location. Or he would have been out of business. All because the FBI wanted to be thorough. Not because he was on suspicion of a crime.

hmottestad 3y ago
This sounds a bit far fetched. Then again I remember a story about a tire storage facility in Norway that went bankrupt and no one could get their winter tires out. Doing a bit of research on this it actually looks like it happened at least two times once in 2019 [1] and previously in 2011 [2]. Looks like all the customers eventually got their tires back, but in Norway we have deadlines for when you need to change from summer tires to winter tires and if you have studded tires then you have to change back by a week or so after end of easter. So customers were in a bit of a pickle. 1: https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/bilverksted-har-stengt-dorene-_-kundene-far-ikke-dekkene-tilbake-1.14754793 https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/bilverksted-har-stengt-dorene-_... 2: https://www.rb.no/lokale-nyheter/kunder-fortviler-over-dekkhotell-konkurs/s/1-95-5566826 https://www.rb.no/lokale-nyheter/kunder-fortviler-over-dekkh...
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  > This sounds a bit far fetched. Wish it were. There's more to the story that I'm not permitted to discuss. But the brush strokes are there, and all true. Unfortunately.

hmottestad 3y ago

This sounds a bit far fetched. Then again I remember a story about a tire storage facility in Norway that went bankrupt and no one could get their winter tires out. Doing a bit of research on this it actually looks like it happened at least two times once in 2019 [1] and previously in 2011 [2]. Looks like all the customers eventually got their tires back, but in Norway we have deadlines for when you need to change from summer tires to winter tires and if you have studded tires then you have to change back by a week or so after end of easter. So customers were in a bit of a pickle. 1: https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/bilverksted-har-stengt-dorene-_-kundene-far-ikke-dekkene-tilbake-1.14754793 https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/bilverksted-har-stengt-dorene-_... 2: https://www.rb.no/lokale-nyheter/kunder-fortviler-over-dekkhotell-konkurs/s/1-95-5566826 https://www.rb.no/lokale-nyheter/kunder-fortviler-over-dekkh...

deafpolygon 3y ago
> This sounds a bit far fetched. Wish it were. There's more to the story that I'm not permitted to discuss. But the brush strokes are there, and all true. Unfortunately.