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To: TigerPaw who wrote (6801)12/13/2005 9:10:30 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 542213
 
In your definition , if you went to a store and walked out with a pack of gum, and the store owner insisted you pay, you would call it extortion.

No, but if the store owner walked in to my house and left a pack of gum without my request and maybe even without my knowledge, and then insisted I pay I might.