Putting their foot in the door to stop it from shutting it is bad! Itdoesn't seem like what most people think of as "forcing their way through the door".They threatened him with the sheriff, with jail time, and with huge fines, after trying to force their way through his door and interrogating his neighbors. That's not "asking him."
You seem to be giving full credence to the more dramatic and negative details Cannon has furnished, while disregarding the less damning ones. Like that the agents did indeed ask. Or that after they made his wife upset he told them to be more respectful and step outside, and they obeyed both instructions. Neither of which would follow if they were trying to force their way into his home, physically intimidate or rob him.
This doesn't paint a very good picture of the agents behavior. We don't fully know what happened. But that they had to be asked to step outside out of concerns they were upsetting his wife, suggests they were at least making the household uncomfortable. And of course they would obey the request to step outside because it is his house, they have to.
If you're gonna be a repo man, be the fun kind.To me, the tactics describe sound like what Repo Men do when, well, repossessing property (except they have a legal claim to it). Come in hard, keep talking, don't do anything technically illegal, but steamroll right over the subject's idea of what proper and predictable behavior is as if you've got much more authority than you do. Half authority-intimidation, half confidence game.
I'm comfortable with calling it "seizing", myself; it's loaded, absolutely, and loaded the right amount for how I see it, though it's not a legal seizure.
Raid or theft, though, are... it's not those.
To me, the tactics describe sound like what Repo Men do when, well, repossessing property (except they have a legal claim to it). Come in hard, keep talking, don't do anything technically illegal, but steamroll right over the subject's idea of what proper and predictable behavior is as if you've got much more authority than you do. Half authority-intimidation, half confidence game.
I'm comfortable with calling it "seizing", myself; it's loaded, absolutely, and loaded the right amount for how I see it, though it's not a legal seizure.
Raid or theft, though, are... it's not those.
Either way, some went out too soon because one or more people messed up - but how does that become "stolen property" instead of "breach of contract" for the person(s) who broke the embargo?If they are conducting an investigation, and from the timing of this it would appear that the cards had not reached distribution channels yet, you would normally want to secure the physical objects first. Usually you do this by making a request or demand.
I am not accusing them of stealing anything as I don't know what the legal state of the cards would be in this case (and I don't have enough information).
Not the kind WotC sends?If you're gonna be a repo man, be the fun kind.
Yeah, that's what I said.Note that Ford went after Cena, not the guy he sold the car to. Just because Cena broke his contract with Ford, it didn't change that ownership of the car had been legally transferred.