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Topic: Italian tourist busted at
posh East Side steakhouse for
forgetting wallet, even after
offering iPhone as collateral
until he could return with cash |
Italian tourist busted at
posh East Side steakhouse for
forgetting wallet, even after
offering iPhone as collateral
until he could return with cash
New York Daily News, by Kerry Burke & Joe Kemp
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Original Article
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/25/2013 9:19:19 AM
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| Welcome to New York, pal — now go to jail. An Italian tourist spent his second night in the city behind bars after staff at an upscale East Side steakhouse called cops when he claimed he left his wallet at a friend’s place. Graziano Graziussi, a 43-year-old lawyer from Naples, is a regular at Smith & Wollensky — but this time, barely 24 hours into his latest two-week stay in New York, he realized he didn’t have his wallet on him when a waiter presented him with the $208 bill Monday night. “I forgot my wallet,” the clean-cut Graziussi
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Envirodude, 1/25/2013 9:25:08 AM (No. 9138339)
It happens in Grenada Mississippi too. At a restaurant that doesn´t take credit cards or checks, I saw a patron arrested for not having the cash on hand to cover his tab.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mossley, 1/25/2013 9:35:02 AM (No. 9138370)
There´s a lot of people that steal meals claiming they´ll be back with the money. I don´t blame the restaurant for not letting him walk out without paying. Besides, if he had an phone with him, call someone to bring your wallet to you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
arcady, 1/25/2013 9:35:48 AM (No. 9138372)
They did that to a regular? Nice... That will teach you to eat at a chain restaurant in NY ;)
That´s going to be one heck of a Yelp review!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 1/25/2013 9:58:12 AM (No. 9138433)
Assuming his story was true, this is just one more example of the death of common sense.
My wallet fell out of my jacket pocket at the doctor´s office the other day. I was heading out to lunch afterwards. Fortunately, the doctor´s receptionist saw my wallet and returned it to me.
You can lose you wallet. It happens. It was a brand new jacket and the pocket just wasn´t quite right for storing a wallet but I didn´t realize it until it fell out. That does not make me a criminal.
A simple solution, check your money before you order.
On the other hand, this guy is a lawyer. Never trust a lawyer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
olcap, 1/25/2013 10:16:03 AM (No. 9138486)
Most politicians are lawyers also. One should never trust them either.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jasmine, 1/25/2013 10:16:45 AM (No. 9138489)
I´m embarrassed for New York. Again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/25/2013 10:18:31 AM (No. 9138492)
I think there is probably more to this story--such as a failure to pay in the past.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 1/25/2013 10:21:53 AM (No. 9138498)
They don´t like Italians in that place.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
formerNYer, 1/25/2013 10:33:36 AM (No. 9138523)
Smith & Wollensky - overrated steak house.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
J-Dog, 1/25/2013 10:41:21 AM (No. 9138545)
I side with the restaraunt. Who goes to a restaurant without a wallet??? I would not leave my hotel without my wallet. The guy is an idiot and deserved to be schooled.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mossley, 1/25/2013 11:18:52 AM (No. 9138654)
#3, read the opening to the story. The guy is from Italy. He´s a tourist. How much of a regular can he be? It´s not like he´s there three times a week.
Also, how did he get there without a wallet? He left it 30 blocks away? We´re supposed to believe he walked 30 blocks to grab dinner or a cabbie let him have a free ride.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/25/2013 11:34:08 AM (No. 9138705)
What a dump. Think I´ll eat someplace else.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gerty, 1/25/2013 11:34:39 AM (No. 9138708)
This article is amusing on several levels. However, I´ll address the one with which I am most familiar: the sense of humor and game-playing of the Southern Italian man.
The night´s adventure our Italian friend endured will provide him many stories for his friends back in Naples! It is the sport of the game that makes it all worth it!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 1/25/2013 11:39:47 AM (No. 9138718)
Racist! (see Italian)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/25/2013 11:47:07 AM (No. 9138737)
#12, read the whole story; he is a regular at the restaurant and he is also a regualr traveler-business- to this Country and NYC.
"Into his LATEST 2 week stay..."
Bad press for a place that basically serves Ponderosa steaks at 189 times the price.
Peter Lugers, Brooklyn.
Now that DeLorenzo´s in Trenton is closed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
galloglass, 1/25/2013 11:52:52 AM (No. 9138756)
I was eating at Corky and Lenny´s in Cleveland one night with friends. I thought I had enough to cover the bill, but had forgotten I spent some money earlier in the day. I had my ATM card and driver´s license in my wallet. I asked them if I could leave my wallet with them and go to the ATM right across the street, visible from the lobby. They called the cops on me. When the cops came, they asked the manager what his problem was, that they didn´t have time for that kind of nonsense. They wanted to press charges. The cops said "For what?" and walked me 50 feet to the ATM machine.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lennon47, 1/25/2013 12:00:57 PM (No. 9138771)
what about he´s guest...help the guy out, he´ll pay you back.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 1/25/2013 12:12:37 PM (No. 9138797)
If the guy is a regular then this is pretty bad publicity for 200.00
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
judy, 1/25/2013 12:12:43 PM (No. 9138798)
Welcome to Bloomberg country....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lazyman, 1/25/2013 12:24:17 PM (No. 9138832)
This happen to me not long ago. Forgot my wallet but I left my wife as collatoral. Yes, I did retrive it and go back.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
pomom, 1/25/2013 12:39:05 PM (No. 9138869)
I´ll have to get the scoop from my nephew who is the head chef at the Smith & Wollensky in Columbus, OH. He´ll get a kick out of this one. It could be an honest mistake.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
schnapps, 1/25/2013 1:52:21 PM (No. 9139031)
Maybe it´s just me, but I think $208 for a steak dinner for one is robbery.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/25/2013 3:17:05 PM (No. 9139181)
How did he get there? He was staying 30 blocks away? Did he take a cab? A taxi? He needed money for that.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
K620, 1/25/2013 9:09:23 PM (No. 9139748)
Dear #4, my brother is a lawyer. (I am a lawyer). You will NEVER, EVER find a more honorable, honest person than my brother, a lawyer. Your broad brush is unfair and wrong.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mossley, 1/25/2013 9:20:29 PM (No. 9139759)
#16, you can´t be a regular when you live on another continent.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/28/2013 11:43:41 AM (No. 9144165)
#26, I have a home on the Eastern Shore of VA, but I live in NJ.
When I go to ESVA, I always eat at Kelly´s Gingernut Pub.
I live in a different State, but my frequent visits to the area allow me to become a ´regular´.
This guy travels to NYC multiple times a year, and when he does so he also frequents S & W.
He is a regular.
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