Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:35 pm
A police investigator friend of mine told me that in his 17 years of police work he found that these people do these things because they genuinely do not believe they can be caught.
JIM
JIM
"A police investigator friend of mine told me that in his 17 years of police work he found that these people do these things because they genuinely do not believe they can be caught."
Jim, funny story. Right before my sister closed her restaurant, they had a waiter who was caught adding/changing a number before running people's tips. So a $5 tip would become $15, a $15 tip would become $75, etc. They got the security tapes, called some customers who'd been victims, rounded up the 35 receipts he'd forged, and called the cops.
When confronted, the cop spoke to the waiter for a while. My BIL, an accountant (read: stickler for numbers) who is quite confrontational, got the chance to ask his now former employee a question or two. BIL asked him why in the world he would do this. With big, tear-filled eyes, the waiter said "I didn't think you'd catch me!"
One of many stories that have led me to realize that, in most cases, opening a restaurant is pure madness.
I know B-as-u-r has also been looking for something to do down there. I was just telling my husband, while having another painkiller on one of those white bar stools, that "this place is a gold mine".
