You're not going to believe this one. The incident in question happened just last Saturday on April 26, 2008 just two days ago. Good thing I have online banking, otherwise I wouldn't have caught the offense so quickly. So here's the details:
Around 10:15 pm I walk into the club with a buddy that had never been to the place before. He was nice enough to take care of the cover charge for me. We take our seat near one of the stages. The waitress comes up and takes my order for a budweiser, I hand her my card and she asks me if I want to run an open tab. I think about it for a second and then I said, "Alright, sure." Nothing unusual about that. My buddy leans over and says to me, " Aren't you taking a little risk by doing that?" I thought for a moment about his querie and I said they're not going to take advantage of me.......
Little did I know....... Hehehe!
After about an hour or so, I closed out my tab. I only had two beers and it came to $8.50. I added a $1.50 tip to make it an even $10 and I remembered to keep a copy of my guest receipt for my records! You should always do this whenever you used your card without exception--to protect yourself from this very BS that could happen.
A couple days later, like this morning, I get on the internet to check my bank account and wouldn't you know it! Somebody added an extra 0 to that $10.00. Just perfect because I intend to get the Milwaukie police involved this morning. But first, I'm going to drive over to my bank for some friendly advice on the matter, which happens to be practically across the street from this establishment! How utterly convenient, huh? I love how life seems to have it's little ironies during a spell of misfortune.......Hehehe! You see folks, everything always works out in the end--the important thing is not to get too upset over these types of situations because they happen quite a bit.
Then I'm making a call to the police and that's the end of that.
Cons: The place is a front for an illegitimate enterprise. Girls are below average.
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