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Woman Spends Harrowing 45 Minutes Locked Inside Department Store, Live-Tweets The Experience

#FreeEmily

When you try to leave a store only to discover that you’ve been locked inside and no one is around to help, many thoughts may cross your mind. “I’ve got to tweet this” probably won’t be one of them, but you’re not the Canadian writer who spent a harrowing 45 minutes or so locked inside a Hudson’s Bay store in Toronto.

The nightmare began shortly before 8 P.M., when employees thoughtlessly locked the doors without letting Emily Keeler out.

I am trapped at @HudsonsBay_Co at Yonge and Bloor and everything is closed, no one is here. Do I head to bedding for the night or?—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Her dispatches came complete with photographic proof:

But seriously how do I get out of here? http://t.co/i3xOAnNkop—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

A dude shouted thru the glass to say I should try the mythical fifth floor back doors first.—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Nope! http://t.co/Bi25ziDKJY—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Okay, thank you everyone for reminding me of Today's Special an Mannequin. I am smiling through the fear and isolation.—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

So I am going stand near the adjacent office again. Their security said they needed HBC's own security to get in here.—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

If they can't get a hold of HBC security in 10 or so, I guess I'll have to call the cops on myself?—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Thank you for being worried if you are, but I'm totally fine for now. The office security dude said he'll figure this out.—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Being alone in an empty store is creepy when the radio won’t stop.

The in store radio is still playing. Including Bay Ads.—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Non emerge police dispatcher was all "what do you mean, you're trapped in a department store?"—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

CTV confirmed that the police did receive a non-emergency call around 8:30 from someone stuck in a department store.

Finally, at 8:32 PM, sweet freedom.

I'm free!!—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

These nice managers freed me! http://t.co/5WR1mmgOAf—

Emily M. Keeler (@emilymkeeler) February 27, 2014

Ms. Keeler has refused interviews, saying, “I think I’ve already embarrassed myself enough.” That’s okay: the tweets tell the story.

Toronto woman trapped in The Bay live-tweets ‘terrifying’ ordeal [CTV]

Laura spent a harrowing five minutes locked inside a Sears last week, but failed to tweet about it. You should follow her anyway.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

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9 Federal Laws That Companies Can Skirt By Using Forced Arbitration

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There are numerous federal laws that explicitly give wronged consumers the right to file a lawsuit against the company that harmed them, but all those statutory rights are being taken away by companies that insert arbitration clauses into their terms of service.

A new report [PDF] from Public Citizen examines the current state of forced arbitration and how it is increasingly being used to allow companies to skirt or possibly break the law.

For example, the federal Credit Repair Organization Act specifically states that credit/debt repair companies must include statements in their disclosures that state, “You have a right to sue a credit repair organization that violates the Credit Repair Organization Act.”

But in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012′s CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood that this “right to sue” isn’t really a right to file a lawsuit and have your case heard in a court of law, but merely a statement saying the consumer will have some forum in which to resolve the dispute.

So if a sketchy credit repair company (which is not hard to find) violates the CROA but includes a forced arbitration clause in its contract, your complaint will never be heard in court.

Then there’s the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which also explicitly grants consumers who allege violations of that law to bring action against the company “in an appropriate court.”

But in Dec. 2013, when a Florida man alleged that Sallie Mae had violated the TCPA, he found that he was stuck having to arbitrate the case because of an arbitration clause in the promissory note he signed. So his case would not be heard in a court of law, but in arbitration.

Other laws that can be skirted in similar ways include the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the Truth-in-Lending Act.

Each of these laws give consumers the statutory right to seek legal redress, but forced arbitration clauses can be used to force any attempt at resolution out of the courtroom and into a private arbitration process that is weighted heavily in favor of the company that wrote the contract.

“As these provisions indicate, proper enforcement of consumer protection laws depends not only on state and federal enforcement but also on consumers’

ability to act on their own, which forced arbitration substantially impairs,” writes Public Citizen in its report.

THE SNAKE BITING ITS OWN TAIL

While some wronged consumers attempt to get around arbitration clauses by claiming they are unconscionable and therefore not legally enforceable, companies merely get around this potential pitfall by including a stipulation in the clause that leaves it up to the arbitrator to determine whether the terms of a contract are fair or not. In 2010, the Supreme Court signed off on such circular clauses in its ruling in Rent-A-Center, West, Inc. v. Jackson.

“With companies’ widespread use of forced arbitration in contracts, our only option as consumers is to challenge the validity of the arbitration clause itself in court,” explained a plaintiff whose case against Citibank was forced into arbitration. “But that option is also gone.”

CAN ANYTHING BE DONE?

A recent preliminary report on forced arbitration from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau confirmed that an increasing number of banks and credit card companies are using arbitration clauses to avoid litigation and put bans on class actions.

Forced arbitration clauses are now found in everything from wireless contracts to loan agreements to video game consoles. While the CFPB doesn’t have oversight over many of these companies, the Public Citizen report calls on the Bureau to use its authority to create a rule barring these clauses from contracts of those businesses it does oversee — banking, lending, credit, debt collection.

“[T]hese terms allow companies to escape accountability while engaging in illegal and predatory practices that harm the financial marketplace,” concludes the report. “The Bureau can and should act to restore consumers’ legal rights in all financial sectors by issuing a rule that eliminates forced arbitration in their contracts.”

by Chris Morran via Consumerist

NBC Says It Stopped 45,000 Instances Of Video Piracy During Sochi Olympics

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When there’s a $775 million broadcasting investment on the line, you better believe that a network like NBC is going to go after video pirates just like Peter Pan and his gang in Neverland. In this case, Neverland was the Winter Olympics in Sochi, an event that NBC says it protected its rights by busting 45,000 instances of illegally posted videos or pirated streams.

NBC paid a huge chunk of change to the International Olympic Committee in order to be the sole, exclusive TV and streaming rights holder, notes the Associated Press. So it’s not surprising that it would unleash its full force of sword-wielding boys — or more likely, technological tools — to stop as much piracy during the games as it could.

The network said it worked with Olympic officials to nip about 20,000 videos of the competitions from YouTube using filtering technology that prevents them from going up in the first place, or finds them shortly after posting and scraps them.

A further 20,000 were bumped from distribution on similar sites around the world, NBC said.

An additional 5,000 or so illegal streams of Sochi material were also kept off the Web, many of those posted on for-profit websites trying to make a buck off consumers who wanted to watch a live feed, which wasn’t available legally.

Those sites are often where consumers turn if they couldn’t access NBC’s live feeds without proving they had a cable or satellite TV subscription. And further provoking consumers to seek other means, perhaps, could’ve come from NBC’s decision to not stream some events live at all, like the Opening Ceremonies, and instead show edited highlights later.

It sounds like a hefty number of crackdowns, but NBC couldn’t offer up any figures to compare it with from the London Summer Olympics in 2012 or the Vancouver Winter games in 2010, but the network insists that 99% of this year’s viewing took place on legal channels.

“When all the players in the digital ecosystem cooperate and work together, it is possible to create an online environment in which legitimate commerce thrives, jobs are created and consumers receive content how, when and where they want it,” said John McKay, NBC spokesman.

NBC says thousands of illegal video stopped [Associated Press]

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

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The Pop-Up Hot Dog And Bun Toaster Is A Thing

hotdogtoaster

Live from the store-closing sale of yet another Kmart, reader Amanda sent us this strange unitasking appliance that we were not previously aware existed.

What if you say to yourself, “that’s good, but I really wish that it had cross-branding for some kind of fizzy sugar water.” You’re in luck!

(Amazon)

While checking to make sure this was a real product and Amanda wasn’t just messing with us, we discovered that the company is real. They also make cotton candy and snow-cone makers, and popcorn machines, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Amazon reviews on this product are mixed, by the way. “This toaster is poorly made and I’m taking it back! I’ll stick to the microwave or boiling water!” wrote one reviewer. Poor quality is a recurring theme, as is the fact that the hot dogs barely cook. Maybe you’re better off microwaving, after all.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist