Returning to the scene of the crime is one mistake that often gets criminals caught — but what about returning the actual item pilfered during a crime to its rightful owner? That will also get you in trouble, of course. A man who stole a credit card didn’t realize when he tried to pay for his beer that the bartender was also his recent victim.
According to Miami Beach police, the man broke into a car in a parking garage on Monday night and came away with a stolen credit card. In his quest to grab a cold one, he walked into a bar soon after and handed over the card to pay for his beer. That’s when the bartender noticed, oh, hey, that’s my own darn name on the card.
The bartender kept his wits about him and had security call the cops. They showed up and charged the man with credit card fraud and theft, although he claimed he just found the card on the ground in the parking garage.
The Miami Herald says the man, who is apparently homeless, was arrested and booked into the county jail. All for the love of beer.
Miami Beach police: Man tries to buy beer with card stolen from the bartender [Miami Herald]
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HOMER: “No TV, no beer make Homer something something.”
MARGE: “Go crazy?”
HOMER: Don’t mind if I do!
Alternate headline: Homeless Man Receives Shelter
See? The system works!
all jokes aside, homeless people WILL do this to get 3 squares and a warm place to sleep.
Soapy (O.Henry character) got himself tossed in jail every time the winter got cold.
For some people, prison is the only viable senior/retirement plan.
And the scarier thing is that an inmate in a prison has greater freedom than elderly people in some nursing homes.
In prison do you pull landscaping duty if you complain about your fingers hurting?
What, no blaming the bartender for leaving his credit card in his car? This place is getting softer.
what’s up with the picture of pretending to feed alcohol to an infant?
Not that this excuses the crime but why do people leave credit cards in cars?
Beer – the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
You missed it by just a few seconds.
He’s lucky the bartender went about it the right way. I imagine some places would call the “police”, if “police” meant dragging you out behind the bar and security beating the shit out of you for your trouble.