It wasn’t outside the premises, even though he thought it was, because he went through a fake exit.
Oddly enough, real and fake exits have long been a mainstay of sideshows. A no lesser light than P.T. Barnum used such a gimmick, signs that encouraged the people inside, “This way to the Egress!”, touting “the egress” as a big attraction, when in fact it was just a synonym for Exit. People would be outside on the street before realizing they had been skunked. And no readmission without paying again.
The bottom line is that the court was right.
The court was right just because it said so? Is that the bottom line?
The bottom line is always, always, things happen for a reason. And that reason isn’t always righteousness. It could have easily been reasoned the other way; I see disdain for the whole affair written in the court’s attitude.
I mean, even by biblical rules this place was skating on thin, slick ice.
I say that if the people running the place do not themselves learn a lesson the easy way, they will learn it the hard way. If someone was packing heat, someone else could have ended up dead. There is a difference between show and real life.