BS floor ruling at Grand Victoria IN

[Tom1975]

I'm playing 5/10 at the grand vic - the UTG player sitting in seat 10 limps and leaves his cards sitting unprotected in front of his chip stack. Several more players limp and I raise on the button. Both blinds fold. As the dealer is sweeping the blinds’ cards in the muck, he grabs the UTG’s cards and mucks them too. UTG is busy dealing with the waitress but when he turns around he says ‘hey where’d my cards go?’. Dealer says ‘Sorry, I just saw them sitting out there and thought you folded.’ The UTG player, while not exactly happy at having his hand mucked, concedes ‘yeah, I got to remember to start protecting my cards’. I figure situation over – lesson learned – let’s get on with it. Wrong. The dealer, on his volition, calls the floor over and explains what happened. The floor apologizes to the player (even though it was his fault and seemed to understand that) and says ‘well we can’t ever pull cards out of the much, but we’ll let you take your bet back’. WTF? Now I jump in. Not wanting to look like a jerk, I say ‘I’m sorry his hand got mucked but that $5 was in play, people have since acted on it, you can’t just push it back to him’ Floor says ‘we accidentally mucked his hand, it’s not fair to make him leave his bet in’. I argue with the floor a little more but to no avail. Should I have just let this go and kept quiet? I’m sick and tired of always having to point out various rules to clueless dealers and floorpeople. It sucks because most of the time the rest of the table doesn’t know better and to them it looks like I’m shooting some angle when I’m really just trying to enforce a rule that the dealer and floor should have done to begin with.