Comment Re:Elephant in the Room (Score 1) 300
WRONG! If you skip out on paying for your repairs and don't come in for months to pick up your property then the shop owns the laptop or whatever and can sell the laptop to recover the cost of the bill. So they absolutely can go through the laptop after months of not showing up to pay for the repairs. They legally own the laptop. The FBI were called the laptop was picked up by the FBI and taken away but the owner of the shop made a backup of the hard drive before giving it to the FBI. So the shop can't even sell the laptop to pay the bill because the FBI has it.