soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Here is another way to look at it.
Lets say the company decided to hang up a sign in the parking lot that says "no oatmeal cookies allowed", and you just happen to roll into the parking lot with a bag of oatmeal cookies in your car.
Does the company have the right to make up the rule and hang the sign on their property? Yes. Are you therefore breaking the law by having that bag of cookies in your car anyway? No. Does the company have the right to search your car? No...but even if they did, there is no law against having a bag of oatmeal cookies in your car, so whether the search turned up any oatmeal cookies or not would be irrelevant. This holds true whether the object in question is an oatmeal cookie, a curling iron, a book, a shovel, a gun, or any other perfectly legal inantimate object.
Lets say the company decided to hang up a sign in the parking lot that says "no oatmeal cookies allowed", and you just happen to roll into the parking lot with a bag of oatmeal cookies in your car.
Does the company have the right to make up the rule and hang the sign on their property? Yes. Are you therefore breaking the law by having that bag of cookies in your car anyway? No. Does the company have the right to search your car? No...but even if they did, there is no law against having a bag of oatmeal cookies in your car, so whether the search turned up any oatmeal cookies or not would be irrelevant. This holds true whether the object in question is an oatmeal cookie, a curling iron, a book, a shovel, a gun, or any other perfectly legal inantimate object.