Posted on 03/03/2017 8:13:49 AM PST by Red Badger
MADRID (AFP) -
Spanish police were on Friday hunting more than a hundred restaurant customers who fled without paying the bill.
The party enjoyed a 2,000-euro ($2,100) banquet on Monday at the Hotel Carmen restaurant in Bembibre, northern Spain, before promptly doing a runner.
"They were dancing, then suddenly they had disappeared. In one minute, a hundred people had left," restaurant boss Antonio Rodriguez told Cadena Ser radio.
"They didn't leave in little groups -- no, they went all at once."
Restaurant staff were unable to stop them, Rodriguez said. "You can't do anything when there's so many of them."
The Guardia Civil police declined to confirm media reports that the fleeing diners were from Eastern Europe, but an official from the force said they were not Spanish nationals.
"We know roughly where they are," he added.
They get away with their scams and poorly performed jobs for two reasons.
First, these people are trained from birth to operated below the radar and they are slick characters. They're fast talkers and pushy to the point of getting what they want even when their "customers" (translation: victims) may not really want to do it.
Second, there are so many people out there that are not bright enough to recognize a scam when they are being fleeced. That's all the gypsies and/or travelers need to make a good living. These folks are not "poor" by any stretch of the imagination, except maybe in the area of conventional ethics and morals.
I was amazed how easy it was to get them to accept “No”.
Could have been the shotgun I was holding at the time.
Saw them in Spain at the tourist traps. Got on the bus to go to the next one and the same Gypsies followed.
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