SC fakes heart attack to avoid paying bills

[Argabarga]

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

Police say the Waukesha man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack. The cabdriver left unpaid.

Authorities say the man then ran up a $23 bill when he had a steak dinner at Applebee's. He again pretended to have a heart attack.

This time the fire department took him to a hospital. A doctor there recognized the man as having pulled the same stunt in the past few weeks.

He was charged Thursday with defrauding a restaurant as a habitual criminal. He could get up to nine months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

"Oh, this is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm comin' to join you!"

I'm sorry, that was the first thing that came to my mind.

I apologize on behalf of my fellow Cheeselanders for this moron.

[blas]

You gotta be a really rare kind of stupid.....or a really big form of CHEAPSKATE with no conscience to pull crap like that.

[Primer]

but why does everything happen in Waukesha??

[RedRoseSpiral]

Geeze if you're going to do that do where you're really getting something out of it. $23 steak dinner is not worth it. Maybe a $100 steak dinner. That is if you're pathetic enough to pull something like this.

[Becks]

That's pathetic.

I'm ashamed to be from the same state as him.

[crazylegs]

This is why I love AED (Automatic Emergency Defribrilators (sp?)), hook someone up who you suspect is having a heart attack and it tells you right away if they are or not!

[eltf177]

There needs to be a special level of hell for people like this. How about forcing them to serve in a resturant with huge parties of people who _all_ fake heart attacks to get out of paying their bill and tip?!

[tollbaby]

LMAO was he a 60-something lawyerly guy named Alan? LOL sounds like my best friend's dad - so cheap, he'd steal the pennies off the corpse at his own funeral

[bainsidhe]

Wait, what? The cab just LEFT?? No 911, no hospital, nothing?

And yeah, this guy is a major turd. Hope he really gets stuck with that fine.

[Record Store Tough Guy]

Wow. Applebee's. Way to aim high, Ponzi.

[Miyon]

I think ya'll might like this:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoID=38017710

[mattm04]

That takes it to a new lever of cheap.

[Exodus212]

Heart Attack Faker

Guess what I found?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080705/D91NCSQ00.html

*MOD EDIT - Duplicate threads merged.

[Rayndel2]

o.o
Dude got what he deserved, though.