You have no ‘right’ to shop lift no matter how polite you are, and no ‘right’ to shop anywhere unless you agree to observe the rules of that particular business. He had no ‘right’ to refuse to show his receipt. The constitution wasn’t set up to protect shop lifters.
if he would have just shown his receipt no one would have bothered him any more. this whole incident just proves that when you act like an A-hole you are treated like an A-hole.
I do not need an enumerated or explicit right not to be searched by private parties or refuse one if requested. He was well within his rights to refuse to show his receipt or resist being detained since it did not properly fall under shopkeepers privilege. The store would then be well within his rights to tell him to never come back.
Yeah, but where does that argument begin and end?
One could easily argue that any design professional laying out the floor plan for a Circuit City should know to place the cash registers closer to the exit, thereby allowing customers to exit with their purchases unimpeded and unharassed.
Just because I enter somebody else private property doesn’t mean I consent to their search, interrogation and seizure of my property, person, and time, no matter who says it.
Interesting that you believe all merchants should treat their customers as shop lifters.