A 50-year-old man was arrested in Alicante, Spain, after he faked a heart attack 20 times in various restaurants to avoid paying the bill.
Aidas J., a Lithuanian living in Alicante (Spain), has been faking heart attacks for several months in order to avoid paying the bills in several restaurants in the city. The fifty-year-old pretended to be a wealthy Russian tourist before he was eventually arrested.
His trick seems simple. Once seated, the man typically ordered seafood paella, tapas, lobster or steak, all accompanied by a glass of whiskey, as was the case during his most recent arrest last Tuesday at the El buen Comer restaurant.
When he finished eating, instead of pulling out his credit card, he “clutched his chest, threw himself on the floor and pretended to have a heart attack in order to gain the shopkeeper’s sympathy and not pay the bill .” ” », details from the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación.
But this time the manager and employees didn’t believe his story and called the police before sending photos of him to other restaurants to warn them. It was another restaurant that was able to identify the scammer.
800 euros to repay
According to a police officer from the operational intervention group of the Central Police Station (GOR) of Alicante, interviewed by the Spanish press agency EFE, during each arrest Aidas J. “kept his smile, remained calm, perhaps convinced of his impunity and not.” I went to the trouble of spending a few nights in the cell before I went to court.”
The man was charged with the trivial offense of fraud on Thursday morning before the city’s investigative court. The deceived restaurateurs want to sue together. In total, the fraudster would have to reimburse more than 20 restaurants in compensation of 800 euros.