Couple Attempts a Dine and Dash at Hotel Bethlehem! Doesn’t QUITE Work

—Thanks to LD for the tip

Oh, the “Dine and Dash” or, aren’t there other names for it? Anyway, it’s when you eat your meal, maybe get the check, maybe not, but either way you’re out the door before you can pay for it.

Obviously, this works in places where people will never see you again. If you do it at your favorite sports bar, don’t be surprised to never be allowed in again.

When I was about ten or 11 my mom, my sister and my mom’s friends and her kids all went to New York City to Christmas shop or some shit (I just wanted to see the Ghostbuster building.) So, we go to Ellen’s Stardust Diner on Broadway and eat and we’re sitting there waiting for the bill. My mom goes up a few times to ask about it, they say they’ll get to her. After at LEAST 20 some minutes AFTER she asked for the bill, it still didn’t come, so, we said screw it and all left.

Rationalization comes into play there since the fact that we DID ask for the bill and they just didn’t get it to us means that, well fuck them.

I’m not sure if these people decided to get to the dash part, but they sure as hell got through the dine portion.

Police charged a couple after they enjoyed a leisurely breakfast Monday at Hotel Bethlehem — complete with more than a dozen alcoholic drinks — and couldn’t pay the tab.

Joseph Solomon Skirp, 43, of Bethlehem, and Tia Hassler, 39, of Allentown, were charged with theft of services after a breakfast that started arriving shortly before 10 a.m.

Police said the couple ordered breakfast and had 13 alcoholic drinks. Around 1:30 p.m., the waiter and hotel staff opted to discontinue service and presented the couple with a bill for $123.

Hassler tried to write out a check, but was told checks aren’t accepted. Police said Skirp tried to go to a nearby bank to cash the check, but the check was declined.

In his defense, Skirp told police that Hassler invited him to breakfast so he assumed she had enough money to pay the bill. Source

Ok, few things here. 1. What the heck were they eating? I guess the bulk of the bill would be for the drinks, but cmon they were either eating the golden teets of a neborn Mongolian goat flown in that morning or Hotel Bethlehem has gotten a bit pricer than I last remembered. and 2. The wait staff “opted to discontinue service” which means that the couple was either way too drunk OR they looked like absolute scumbags and the staff was pretty sure they couldn’t pay.

Who brings out a checkbook nowadays?

However, the best thing of all would be Hassler being all like “Oh, hellllzzzzz no, he invited me out, he’s picking up the tab.”

See, I wouldn’t have charged him criminally, would have just done the tried and true “you have to do the dishes thing.” Cmon, that’s much better punishment, isn’t it?

Oh, and if you ARE going to dine and dash, only do it at the same place once and never go back there. Once you start pressing your luck, you’re bound to hit some Whammys.