I'm sorry but that's some real dumbass logic. "The store was closed so it wasn't illegal that we cleaned out all the merchandise."

That is not a refusal to take payment though. I don't know how things work in common law jurisdictions, but in civil law, if I have borrowed money from you, I offer to pay it - and you refuse - the debt is considered cleared.

Now you can imagine a store situation. The store makes an offer. I accept the offer, which imposes on me the obligation to pay the price. The store refuses my payment. My debt is cleared.

Probably in this case, this would not apply, as masks were mandated at the time and the store was within its right to refuse service to this individual.

But I have considered what the best way is to resist 'vaccine passports'. I thought it would be good to walk past the checker, take whatever item you want, and when there is a refusal to sell the item - just hand over the money and walk out of the store. I am not sure it would fly legally, but I do know that it would fly PR-wise.

Assuming the requirement was posted, they were explicitly not offering to sell it to him. Not going to defend the masky lunatic but I don't have any sympathy for shoplifters either.

But if it was shoplifting, he was probably within his rights to chase him. And the article is not specific enough to make a judgment, but if he feared for his life, he may even have been justified to pull the trigger.