He should of done like our local gas fellow did two years ago. He should of ran out unarmed and grabbed of the offenders car and held on while screaming for them to stop and pay !!!
Oh yeah, that poor gas station fellow got ran over and died.
Nevermind... I am rooting for the gas station owner in this case. I have seen too many honest gas owners killed just trying to be honest shopkeepers. Eat two or three of these driveoffs a week, on a tight shoestring budget, and you will see 28 dollars adds up. Remember to some people, 28 dollars is not a tip, it is often the different between food on the table for the end of the week.
I do understand we are not to take the law into our own hands, just saying I don't know if I would find this person guilty in some circimstances if I was a jury person.
And I'm not saying the guy had no business defending his property on his property. His mistake is pursuing them, armed, onto the state's. When they left, he should have given their tag# and description to the authorities. Most places now have surveillence cameras photoing drive-offs and losing one's DL is one of the penalties for failing to pay. Numerous other expenses are also levied upon the guilty. If he has a photo system, he's in even more trouble because it would show an armed pursuit as a totally irrelavent act of aggression. If he didn't have security cameras, $28 should've meant nothing to him.