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Flash back to 1996, as a customer walks out of the Seaview Palace Tandoori in Swansea, a coastal city in Wales, without paying for his £10 late-night curry meal -- about a $17 bill, for those stateside.
Now, nearly 13 years later, the Daily Telegraph reports the customer is finally footing the unpaid tab plus some.
The police received an anonymous apology in March from the dine-and-dash customer, along with £60 (approximately $100) cash to be passed on to the Seaview Palace Tandoori restaurant owner.
It seems the customer finally wanted to settle his debt, with extra money added to take inflation into account.
Little did the customer know, the restaurant had since been torn down. The police spent the last five months tracking down former Seaview Palace Tandoori owner, 48-year-old Samsul Bari.
They finally discovered him 40 miles away in Pembroke, Wales, running yet another a restaurant.
"I want to give a big thank-you to the individual for getting in touch with the police after all those years," Bari told the Daily Telegraph. "It seemed like a genuine mistake -- I really appreciate the person coming forward."
As the old adage goes, better late than never.
8-23-2009 @3:49PM Denise said... People stick to the topic I am so tired of every advertizing on a comments site. This is not a weight loss, clean your colon, or love site. It is about someone finding their conscience. Good for you for making up for your bad choices. Some bad choices can not be undone. You are bless you could undo this. Karma.....
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8-16-2009 @9:27PM Will said... That's actually amazing. The person who walked out grew up a little. Maybe something bad happened to him that reminded him of not paying his bill.
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8-16-2009 @9:58PM Just Me said... I walked out on a bill once because the waitress just wouldn't / didn't bring it. My daughter and I went to the restroom while waiting and came back to our table being filled with new people so I bailed. No guilt here!!!
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8-16-2009 @10:33PM Lucky said... LOL
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8-16-2009 @11:44PM miah said... I did that once. I went to a restaurant to eat, and left without paying, after having enjoyed every bite.
The next day, I felt bad too. So I went back to the restaurant and returned it. Ever bit I could recover. lol
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8-17-2009 @2:41AM wes said... I saw the play Les Miserables....poor young fool guilty for stealing bread.....guilt ridden his entire life.
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8-17-2009 @12:14AM Gulpttub said... Talk about clearing your conscience! After reading this, now I need to go back to the Ground Round in Yonkers, NY to find that waiter who mistook me for a woman back in 1997, so I can tell him, "no harm, no foul". I did get rather prompt service that day, as well as a free coffee refill every 45 seconds (as if coffee was going to make everything better...ok, you got my goddam gender wrong; it was a 50/50 shot and you still f***ed up; now you're trying to appease me with coffee??? Mmm-kay...). Of course, the chances of that Ground Round still being there and not having been turned into a Starbucks is probably pretty slim...
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8-17-2009 @12:37AM ycav4424 said... I feel left out, I don't have anything to advertise.
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8-17-2009 @1:18AM Lori said... well that restaurant owner surely would not have thought it was a genuine mistake, and would not have been so happy if he hadn't sent a hundred bucks with the note!!LMAO
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8-17-2009 @3:12AM Sally G said... I tried to pay for a meal with a bad credit card once (unknowingly) and didn't have the cash to cover. I felt like a heel. I tried to fix the problem for weeks and have the restauranteur resubmit, but no go; the restaurant finally told me to forget it (about $11). OTOH, I once paid for (at the counter, to restaurant owner) an iced tea (soda?) at a local pizzeria, sat down at a table near the door to drink it leisurely and read while cooling off for my walk home, only to have the counterperson (not the person I paid) accuse me of leaving without paying when I got up to leave. It got pretty intense, with her questioning "if I was going to make a big thing over $2." Boy, was I steamed! She was questioning my integrity over a single-serve beverage? And wondered why I was offended? Even if the customer isn't always right, don't you give her one chance? It was months before I walked in again, and then noted "I'm paying for this up front, and I don't want to be accused of stealing when I leave". They probably had no clue as to what I was talking about, but I felt better. And now a new place has opened two stores up, so I'll just take my business there.
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8-17-2009 @8:41PM vitriol said... I had somebody walk out on a check once...& it cost me my job. Real funny. The couple sat for a long while after they were done. The check was on the table, & I kept their waters full since they wanted nothing else (i.e. they weren't neglected). I just figured they were into eachother and wanted privacy. Finally, after waiting for them to pay for over an hour, I broke down and had a smoke in the alley. While I was smoking they ran right in front of me, giggling like a young couple. I even wished them a good night, only to go back inside to find no money with for tab.
I had alerted the other servers and the mgr. about the tab before the smoke break, but in the end I was held responsible for the stiff. I disagreed to the point that I lost my job that night, with a son
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8-17-2009 @3:03AM vitriol said... I had somebody walk out on a check once...& it cost me my job. Real funny. The couple sat for a long while after they were done. The check was on the table, & I kept their waters full since they wanted nothing else (i.e. they weren't neglected). I just figured they were into eachother and wanted privacy. Finally, I broke down and had a smoke in the alley. While smoking, they ran right in front of me, giggling like a young couple. I even wished them a good night, only to go back inside to find no money with for tab.
I had told the other servers and the mgr. about the tab before the smoke break, but in the end I was held responsible for the stiff. I hope the meal/thrill/rush/whatever was worth it! It wasn't the end of the world, but it did affect how I trust people, in general.
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8-17-2009 @4:35AM jem said... Truth heals. The softest pillow is a clean conscience, so I'm happy for the person in this story, as I know they feel much better now. A big sigh of relief, for sure!
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8-17-2009 @5:46AM Lisa said... Wow someone with a conscience. The cops spent 5 months tracking down the owner????? Can't see them doing that here. Crime must be low across the pond huh?
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8-17-2009 @5:46AM Lisa said... Just me, that's a great way to raise your daughter!
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8-17-2009 @5:15PM Crystal said... I wonder if the customer was completing a 12 step program, making amends and what not.
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