Wanna bet he'll probably go back there.
Posted on 10/29/2007 10:05:32 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- A father wants investigators to pursue fraud and larceny charges against a Panhandle strip club after his son ran up a $53,000 bill in a single night while celebrating his college graduation.
Joe Salter, 52, of Mary Esther, told investigators Club 10 employees took advantage of his 24-year-old son, Tommy. The younger Salter was at the club Aug. 18 to celebrate his graduation from Georgia Tech.
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A friend of mine went through that "But she's just doing it to pay for nursing school. She's really a nice girl and she loves me." thing with a stripper ...
It was a trainwreck, of course.
Apple to oranges...the joint probably never gave a full disclosure of their prices, advised of the running tally, and otherwise rang up the booze and services in some frenetic greedy dishonest free for all while plying the lad with liquor. When a hospital charges you $20 for an aspirin I guess you somehow think that’s ok.
The problem is he could easily afford the bill if his healthcare costs weren’t so high. That is why we need President Bush to sign the SCHIP expansion. So this 24 year old and others like him will have the health care they deserve!
From the article: According to a report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Salter told employees he could only spend $600. But Club 10 owner Tim Beal said Salter bought at least 19 bottles of champagne -- priced from $150 to $2,000.
Even if 18 out 19 bottle were at the high end of $2,000, that's still less than $38,000. That leaves >$15,000 for lap dances and other incidentals.
My bet is that even the highest priced bottles could be found at Safeway for under $10. Thus it ever was for naive youth. The guy was 24, but I know that I was wise to that crap at a more tender age; of course I joined the Navy at 17, and got an 'accelerated education' during my first Western Pacific cruise ... heh heh.
If it wasn’t $53k, I would be tempted to believe you. But it is VERY hard to spend that much in a strip joint. The club got greedy and I bet they get busted for it
There is nothing in this article to indicate whether “keeping an eye on things” would have help- he’s alleging that he didn’t sign for the charges. When running a tab in a bar it’s SOP for them to take your card immediately and hold it until you leave so it is very easy for someone to run up charges without the customer’s knowledge.
He musta got a whole lot of ‘em.
‘If raping itinerant businessmen and college boys was their standard M.O. and they’d been getting away with it for a while, maybe they could get a little greedy.
We are talking potentially about criminals here.’
Sorry, thats a very old excuse thats been offered thousands of times before this particular incident.
The cash flow from a well run, ‘high class’ strip club is phenomenal, and simply dwarfs this 50K one night billing.
Ya, probably with a gun.
Yes, 'if' he signed. And some where 'initialed'.
Plus even if what the manager says is true, 19 bottles of the most expensive $2000 bubbly is 'only' $38,000. Then what about the 'cheap' $150.00 ones he bought?? And $53k - $38K leaves $15,000. That's 150, $100.00 lap dances?!? (I have no idea of what a lap dance 'costs')
Not excusing the kid, he was a dummy for getting in the situation. But something doesn't add up. (no pun intended)
Note to any executive hiring poor Mr. Salter....NEVER give him a company credit card....without a $50 limit.
Are you talkin bout the neighbor Hey-sus down the street?
hehe
Why did he not graduate from Georgia Tech until the age of 24? Why does a 24 year old college student have a credit card which does not limit out well before $53,000? I know people with joint incomes approaching $900,000 who don’t have credit cards with such high limits. Something is seriously askew with the way in which this young man has been raised.
‘It’s also not unheard of for bar staff to run up charges on a credit card without the customer’s knowledge which seems to be the allegation here. There’s more to the story than what’s in the article but the fact that they’re claiming it wasn’t his signature on the receipts tells me that they didn’t actually know about the tab until after the credit card bill arrived.’
Its a very very rare occurence, statistically speaking. I’ve seen this kind of thing before - and no it wasn’t me running up a bill worth thousands of dollars - and I’ve seen the exact same ‘excuse’ offered up by the clown that was busy being the life and soul of a party at a strip club.
Bottom line is nobody goes into a strip club ‘unaware’.
Sometimes they leave that way....(chuckle)
I blame the creeping infantilization of young adults. When I was growing up we were walking to school on our own from the first grade and it progressed from there. Today I know a frightening number of parents who will not allow their 16-year-olds to take the subway on their own during the daytime- they chauffeur them everywhere. No we have 30-year-olds still living with mommy and daddy and nobody can figure out why.
I guess he didn’t major in math.
ARE YOU FROM FLORIDA? Then shudup about FL strip bars!
American Express- no pre-set limit. I am surprised that they didn’t flag it when the charges were run up though, because most of the card companies assume a spike in charges like that means the card may have been stolen.
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