Food crime stories
I clearly don't read the Police Blotter enough for nuggets of restaurant news. Thanks to Liz Kay for pointing this one out to me:
After a man paid $71 for a bill of $91 at Umami Bistro in the 1500 block of Reisterstown Road about 9 p.m. Monday and refused to pay the remaining $20, he left and was about to get into his pickup truck when a restaurant employee confronted him and demanded the balance. Police said the man snatched the $71 and a check from the employee's grasp and drove away. ...
That's one of those items where you wish Paul Harvey were still around to say, "And now for the rest of the story..." Why did he pay so much but balk at the rest? What was a crook doing eating at such an unlikely restaurant? Did the employee get his license number? Etc., etc.
I had the employee of a restaurant chase after me once (or actually my party). We had left an adequate but not generous tip at a Chinese restaurant on Greenmount Avenue, and the owner came running out after us yelling it wouldn't even cover the cost of laundering the tablecloth.
Comments
Let me guess--you never ate there again, right?
Posted by: Dahlink | October 14, 2009 3:13 PM
I'm more interested in what he ate; he thought it was worth $71 but not $91?
Then, after thinking about it, decided it wasn't worth anything and grabbed the $71 back.
EL, please call Umami on Paul Harvey's behalf and give us the rest of the story.
Posted by: Lone Lady | October 14, 2009 3:51 PM
Paul Harvey died?
Are you going to say, "How could they tell?" EL
Posted by: Bob | October 14, 2009 4:18 PM
I thought Larry King was Paul Harvey's new job.
Posted by: jl | October 14, 2009 5:08 PM
From The Sun's 9.29.09 Police Blotter:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bal-md.blotter29sep29,0,7408218.story
"Robbery: Moments after a man entered the Dunkin' Donuts in the 1000 block of W. 41st St. about 2 p.m. Sunday and ordered blueberry doughnuts, he pulled out a small semiautomatic handgun and demanded the clerk give him money from the cash register. The man fled with an undisclosed sum and the doughnuts."
Posted by: Paul R | October 15, 2009 8:09 AM
Of course in "The Godfather" it was "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
Posted by: billzappa | October 15, 2009 1:32 PM