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I just had to see what you were spewing and as usual the facts stand against you:

Ohio Revised Statutes

2905.03 Unlawful restraint.
(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly restrain another of his liberty.
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
Effective Date: 01-01-1974

They employees were clearly guilty of this crime for not allowing him to leave the parking lot. Plus they unlawfully restrained his father and siblings. They should have been arrested. The jackass in question was guilty of no crime, but was arrested. As the manager I wouldn't let him back in the store though.

The police on the scene already charged this idiot instead, hopefully a charge for improperly paging 911will be tacked on as well.

So who changed the title of the thread, you in search of donations for the ACLU, or the moderator to show how ridiculous you look?

I'm interested to see whether it's OK legally for a store to do the bag/receipt check thing on your way out of the store; I know a lot of stores are doing it, and that's what started this particular ball rolling. I did find this:

2935.041 Detention and arrest of shoplifters - detention of persons in library, museum, or archival institution.

(A) A merchant, or an employee or agent of a merchant, who has probable cause to believe that items offered for sale by a mercantile establishment have been unlawfully taken by a person, may, for the purposes set forth in division (C) of this section, detain the person in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time within the mercantile establishment or its immediate vicinity.

(There's some other stuff that has to do with museums and libraries specifically, but here's the next section that mentions merchants...)

(E) The officer, agent, or employee of the library, museum, or archival institution, the merchant or employee or agent of a merchant, or the owner, lessee, employee, or agent of the facility acting under division (A) , (B), or (D) of this section shall not search the person detained, search or seize any property belonging to the person detained without the person’s consent, or use undue restraint upon the person detained.

So is the act of refusing to show the receipt enough to warrant suspicion and thereby initiate detention? Or does the receipt become your property as soon as it's handed to you and is therefore not subject to search or seizure?

Ugh.