TN sheriff tracks down non-customer, sends her bill for using customers only restroom (W/Pic)
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Restaurant Has Sheriff Track Down Non-Customer’s Home Address, Sends Her a Bill for Using ‘Customers Only’ Restroom
By: Neetzan Zimmerman (no relation to that George Zimmerman dude)
The Flood Zone, like many restaurants, has a policy requiring all restroom seekers to be paying customers. Fair enough. It also has a policy stating that non-customers who insist on using its restroom pay $5 for the privilege Steep, yet still fair. But Patricia Barnes says the Erin, Tennessee establishment left fairness far behind when it mailed a handwritten letter to her home address, demanding she fork over the restroom fee she neglected to pay.
Barnes told the Today Show she received permission to use the Flood Zone's facilities, but missed the small index card by the side of the mirror that informs non-customers of the $5 penalty. An employee did bring it to Barnes' attention after she exited the restroom, but she declined to pay up.
That's when the restaurant's owner went into full stalker mode, contacting Houston County Sheriff Darrell Allison, and asking him to run Barnes' license plate number. The Sheriff complied. Once the owner obtained Barnes' home address, she shot off a quick note detailing Barnes' transgression and requesting payment.
"I just thought it was unbelievable," Barnes said. "I'm like, what type of people are these?" Despite repeated efforts on Barnes' part to pay the $5 and put this incident in her rearview, the restaurant refused to accept her money. According to Barnes, the owner said it wasn't about the $5 — it was about making a point.
And, considering what went into tracking Barnes down, it was a point that likely cost tax payers more than a measly fiver. When confronted by the Channel 4 I-Team about his part in this sorry saga, Sheriff Allison expressed casual indifference. "I would say that happens every day," he said, referring to sharing of residents' private information with business owners. "It's a very common occurrence."
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How much did the tax payers of TN have to pay for man hours, behind $5?
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If I ever find myself in a Floodzone, I'm ? all over all their toilet seats...
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petty as ?
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And the sheriff entertained this ? ???
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i'd eat a bunch of nachos w/ extra salsa, drink half a gallon of whole milk, go pay them 10 bucks to get in that bathroom, and blow that ? up!!!!.....ima try to ? in every toilet and then roll out lol *no flushing*
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They should ? on the bathroom door to end that stupid rule of "customers only" use. What is up with corporations these days, anyway?
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i wish i would go to a place and they tel me 5 dollars to ?
imma go right outside and ? on the building
im a dog -
doesn't this sheriff got some real ? to be doing
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? is sickening how establishments are getting away with ? .
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This is good.
? shouldn't have used it if she couldn't pay up. -
I go to McD's & ? w/o ordering a damn thing all the time
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I understand why they're doing it, but I ain't paying no $5 to use a toilet! I'll take a picture of $5 and send it back to them tho.
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Would any of you let a fat ? come in your house and take a ? for free? Didn't think so.
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Must have never had the mud butt before nh
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soul rattler wrote: »Would any of you let a fat ? come in your house and take a ? for free? Didn't think so.
a fast food place that market their food is different that a private residence that doesn't openly sell anything. Soon people are gonna say that they can refuse service to any individual without reasoning...oh, wahit...they already do in some states. SMH.
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They should have told her before she went in there to use it. So all fault is on the restaurant.
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Wow, some people have no lives...lol
$5 to use the bathroom and that toilet paper is probably still thin and raggedy as hell smh -
How can you tell a town is hit wit hard times economically?
See thread. -
Wow, some people have no lives...lol
$5 to use the bathroom and that toilet paper is probably still thin and raggedy as hell smh
Exactly. These corporations know no bounds. Soon, they gonna charge people to breathe in their establishments, or force people to buy X amount of items that cost x amount of dollars before they can use their restrooms. -
Pathetic jobsworth ? .
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They're charging to discourage use..if you come to my restaurant and ? ..you could at least buy some ? French fries
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They're charging to discourage use..if you come to my restaurant and ? ..you could at least buy some ? French fries
That is gonna open a floodgate to greed. it may be just buying a small fries today, but a fries + chicken sandwich tomorrow. And a Large #8 somewhere down the line. -
they treating whites like 2nd class citizens
the horror
