Best Buy Wrap-Up

Turns out Best Buy can’t just steal your hard drive.  It took a judge to explain that to them, but he did and they gave it back to me.  The whole thing is still pretty stunning.  Basically:

• Best Buy pulled a perfectly functional hard drive out of my laptop, without ever mentioning it to me.
• They returned my laptop, without bothering to put an operating system on the new drive.  Or mentioning that they had taken the old one out.
• Inexplicably, they then refused to return my old hard drive, with all my stuff.  The store manager was unable to see the difference between a full hard drive and a car battery.  I don’t think he knows much about computers.
• The judge in small claims court managed to clarify the concept of property law to the clueless Best Buy people.