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Headphoneus Supremus
Store security guards here in Australia are not permitted to do such a search. However it's harder to negotiate or protest especially being in a foreign country without knowing their laws and your rights.
When you mentioned that incompetent lady that dropped your headphones, my mind was filled with rage for a couple of seconds. How could you treat someone's equipment like that? You should of gave the finger as you left if you were actually treated that badly.
...but he did not say anything about cavity search.
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It only makes sense that they request for their customers to declare any equipment that they bring into the store.
But they didn't did they? If you think about it, it's the responsibility of the store to ask what you're carrying. It's not the individual's fault that Saturn can't keep track of inventory, and OP is not going to do it for them.
Okay, so how do you justify the strip search?
Although having said that, for those people talking lawsuit, there's pretty good chance the OP has no case. Unless they compelled him to strip, I'm pretty sure it would just go down as a request that the OP voluntarily complied with.
I do agree that the strip-search was probably excessive. They should have just looked through his bag and perhaps given him a pat-down. But yeah, he has no case against them since there are warnings in the store that not leaving your bag in the locker area might make the security interested in you.