| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition 10:12 - Oct 23 with 12175 views | artsbossbeard |
Saw a story come up on my FB feed this weekend about a chap who is doing the rounds of Ipswich bars & restaurants, running up big bar tabs before skulking off without paying. The trick being to put an expired debit/credit card behind the bar and relying on it not being checked by bar staff until payment required and by that time, he's gone.
This type of behaviour really boils my p1ss. My mate's lad (both season ticket holders) works in one of the bars affected and they got stung for £80, which is what they pay my mates' lad for a couple of nights work collecting empties & cleaning up.
The story named & shamed him and if it's true, I do know the lad to say hello to but I won't name him on here.
Anyhoo, worth noting if you should work or know someone who works in a bar/restaurant around the Ipswich area.
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:13 - Oct 23 with 7822 views | hype313 |
He's on facebook, posting pics of him drinking beers on the docks... |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:14 - Oct 23 with 7805 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:13 - Oct 23 by hype313 |
He's on facebook, posting pics of him drinking beers on the docks... |
That's the one. Tw@t's behaviour. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:15 - Oct 23 with 7798 views | Steve_M |
Ipswich seems too small a town to get away with that in for very long.
I'm always dubious about any article which names an individual though, they can be wrong and have serious consequences for innocent people. |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:18 - Oct 23 with 7766 views | chicoazul |
Stuff like this is awful. Many bars and restaurants are family industries and a hit like £100 really hurts. |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:18 - Oct 23 with 7768 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:15 - Oct 23 by Steve_M |
Ipswich seems too small a town to get away with that in for very long.
I'm always dubious about any article which names an individual though, they can be wrong and have serious consequences for innocent people. |
Exactly, he can only do this for so long and for the reason you've noted, I wouldn't name him. I wasn't convinced by the photo provided that it matched the chap that people have decided to name as "The Perp". | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:18 - Oct 23 with 7761 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:14 - Oct 23 by artsbossbeard |
That's the one. Tw@t's behaviour. |
Link? |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:19 - Oct 23 with 7751 views | chicoazul |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:13 - Oct 23 by hype313 |
He's on facebook, posting pics of him drinking beers on the docks... |
Really??? Boasting that he has mugged people off? What a penis. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:20 - Oct 23 with 7748 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:18 - Oct 23 by Reuser_is_God |
Link? |
PM. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:22 - Oct 23 with 7725 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:19 - Oct 23 by chicoazul |
Really??? Boasting that he has mugged people off? What a penis. |
No, he's been named & shamed as a warning to other bar owners to inc picture evidence. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:23 - Oct 23 with 7732 views | maccyd9 |
Went for an Indian last night at the Bekash on Meredith Road and they had a sign up saying they have been the victim of that exact scam.
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:24 - Oct 23 with 7431 views | Illinoisblue |
I think over here it’s standard procedure for a bar to run your card upon opening a tab. |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:31 - Oct 23 with 7378 views | Sarge |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:24 - Oct 23 by Illinoisblue |
I think over here it’s standard procedure for a bar to run your card upon opening a tab. |
Surely that can be bypassed by simply buying Diet Coke instead | | | |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:39 - Oct 23 with 7347 views | hype313 |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:24 - Oct 23 by Illinoisblue |
I think over here it’s standard procedure for a bar to run your card upon opening a tab. |
The Newbourne Fox swipe 1p from your card when you start a tab. Surprised all establishments didn't do this | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:44 - Oct 23 with 7314 views | Illinoisblue |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:39 - Oct 23 by hype313 |
The Newbourne Fox swipe 1p from your card when you start a tab. Surprised all establishments didn't do this |
Indeed - seems an obvious and simple fix | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:07 - Oct 23 with 7218 views | RoyKeanesDog |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:20 - Oct 23 by artsbossbeard |
PM. |
Me too please. |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:11 - Oct 23 with 7188 views | GeoffSentence |
Whose expired cards is he using? His own? Stolen ones? |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:15 - Oct 23 with 7163 views | RoyKeanesDog |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:07 - Oct 23 by RoyKeanesDog |
Me too please. |
Found it. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:35 - Oct 23 with 7108 views | witchdoctor |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:15 - Oct 23 by RoyKeanesDog |
Found it. |
do you know him mate? |  | | |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:39 - Oct 23 with 7090 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:15 - Oct 23 by RoyKeanesDog |
Found it. |
Sorted? | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:52 - Oct 23 with 7037 views | jeera |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 10:22 - Oct 23 by artsbossbeard |
No, he's been named & shamed as a warning to other bar owners to inc picture evidence. |
I don't get it. As someone else says, are they his/stolen? How many expired cards can he have? They'd have his name on them so can't be that?
Why aren't the police involved, or does this fall into their "too trivial to bother with" category?
I need to know all of these things. |  |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:56 - Oct 23 with 7024 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:52 - Oct 23 by jeera |
I don't get it. As someone else says, are they his/stolen? How many expired cards can he have? They'd have his name on them so can't be that?
Why aren't the police involved, or does this fall into their "too trivial to bother with" category?
I need to know all of these things. |
Can't help on all but the FB page has a picture of him plus the name on the card left behind the till. A quick Facebook search has identified someone from Ipswich with the same name who looks like the man in the picture.
The FB page does say that Police are aware. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:59 - Oct 23 with 7002 views | jeera |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:56 - Oct 23 by artsbossbeard |
Can't help on all but the FB page has a picture of him plus the name on the card left behind the till. A quick Facebook search has identified someone from Ipswich with the same name who looks like the man in the picture.
The FB page does say that Police are aware. |
I suppose it is possible a wallet has been found with old cards in it then.
I know I'm a b*gger for letting old ones clog up my wallet.
He is a rubbish crook if not. [Post edited 23 Oct 2017 14:00]
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 14:02 - Oct 23 with 6981 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 12:24 - Oct 23 by Illinoisblue |
I think over here it’s standard procedure for a bar to run your card upon opening a tab. |
Always but a lot more people pay by cards over here. For drink tabs it must be 90% cash in the UK I would think. |  | | |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 14:06 - Oct 23 with 6958 views | artsbossbeard |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 13:59 - Oct 23 by jeera |
I suppose it is possible a wallet has been found with old cards in it then.
I know I'm a b*gger for letting old ones clog up my wallet.
He is a rubbish crook if not. [Post edited 23 Oct 2017 14:00]
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As mentioned in the OP, I do know the man named but I'm not 100% convinced that the picture is him, so best to tread carefully, I reckon. | |
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| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 14:07 - Oct 23 with 6943 views | jeera |
| Doing a runner from bars/restaurants - Ipswich edition on 14:06 - Oct 23 by artsbossbeard |
As mentioned in the OP, I do know the man named but I'm not 100% convinced that the picture is him, so best to tread carefully, I reckon. |
Nothing worse than mistaken ID. | |
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