[echoangle]

> Unless the damage was done in malice it’s not a crime. It’s the owners negligence for not protecting their property

Well that’s just wrong, the damage itself is not a crime but the leaving without paying part is. If I accidentally fall onto your parked car and leave a dent, do you think I can just leave because it wasn’t intentional?

[mtnGoat]

Stores and public places are different things, when you let customers touch your merchandise that’s your liability. You don’t have to like it or agree with it, but that’s the law.

[echoangle]

Do you have a source that this is the law?