It worked for a while. And you can be sure the ambulances and hospitals got stiffed too.
MAN WHO FAKED HAVING A SEIZURE TO AVOID PAYING HIS RESTAURANT BILLS IS JAILED IN U.S.
By Paul Thompsonj
Mail Online
August 16, 2010
A man who pretended to have a fit to avoid paying his restaurant bills has been jailed in the U.S.
Andrew Palmer would order an expensive meal - and, when presented with the bill, fake a seizure.
He would roll around on the floor as frantic restaurant staff called for an ambulance.
The 43-year-old conman would be carried out on a stretcher - without paying his bill.
Investigators believe he pulled the scam on at least a dozen restaurants in Baltimore, Maryland.
Once at the hospital he would discharge himself after treatment.
Police dubbed him the 'dine and dash' thief.
Palmer, who has a lengthy arrest record for theft, was caught after restaurants in Baltimore were warned to be on their guard against a diner who faked illness.
'In each case, when Palmer did not have funds to cover the restaurant bill, he feigned a seizure that required the presence of medical personnel,' said prosecutors in Baltimore.
In one incident other diners watched in horror as he 'rolled from side to side and spitting' while faking the seizure.
He had run up a £50 bar tab at the Schmuckers restaurant and went into his well-rehearsed routine when waitress handed him the bill.
Palmer was given the maximum sentence of 18 months by a court in Baltimore.
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