Guest runs up a 100K tab in Dublin hotel and dose a bunk.

Run_to_da_hills

I was reading this in todays Sunday Times, they were more explicit about the case. Apparently this guy was resident in the 4 Seasons hotel in Ballsbridge for a year, ran up a huge tab and then disappeared. How foolish of the Hotel management to allow such a high tab run up for that length of time.

According to the Times the Guy was in the Automotive trade and was involved in R&D for blackbox technology similar to what would be found in aircraft. He was high profile and had dealings with top executives and government departments. The Hotel chain cannot contact anyone in the firm over the matter. Will add Sunday Times link as soon as it appears.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/hotel-silent-over-us-guests-hefty--unpaid-bills-1829677.html

My name is URL

Thats mad

I await the documentary about this guy :pac:

Mr Benevolent

That's not possible. They'd have to give a credit card imprint to get the tab in the first place.

waraf

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/hotel-silent-over-us-guests-hefty--unpaid-bills-1829677.html

That article is just unsubstantiated nonsense. The closing line of the article;

"According to one well-placed source, the businessman has most recently been holed up in an apartment there [Dublin 4], with a lady said to be "young enough to be his daughter, but old enough to know better"

demonstrates perfectly what a rag the Indo has become.

Run_to_da_hills

Confab wrote: »

That's not possible. They'd have to give a credit card imprint to get the tab in the first place.

If he had a 50K limit on his credit card and it was cut off by the bank it would be useless. It would be up to the Hotel chain to regularly check and debit his card. Obviously the foolishly trusted this guy and faild to do it until it built up and was too late.

Run_to_da_hills

waraf wrote: »

That article is just unsubstantiated nonsense. The closing line of the article;

"According to one well-placed source, the businessman has most recently been holed up in an apartment there [Dublin 4], with a lady said to be "young enough to be his daughter, but old enough to know better"

demonstrates perfectly what a rag the Indo has become.

The Indo gives a very waterley version of the story with no substance. The Sunday Times goes into it in debth.

Mr Benevolent

waraf wrote: »

That article is just unsubstantiated nonsense. The closing line of the article;

"According to one well-placed source, the businessman has most recently been holed up in an apartment there [Dublin 4], with a lady said to be "young enough to be his daughter, but old enough to know better"

demonstrates perfectly what a rag the Indo has become.

Yup, it's a tabloid alright. The sh!te they print in that thing is unbelievable.

silvervixen84

Was it Ross O'Carroll Kelly? :pac:

Run_to_da_hills

Confab wrote: »

Yup, it's a tabloid alright. The sh!te they print in that thing is unbelievable.

At least tabloids generally have a sense of humour with the odd pun.

waraf

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

At least tabloids generally have a sense of humour with the odd pun.

and let's not forget our friends on page three :pac:

laugh

waraf wrote: »

"According to one well-placed source, the businessman has most recently been holed up in an apartment there [Dublin 4], with a lady said to be "young enough to be his daughter, but old enough to know better"

Glenda got over Johnny Ronan fairly quick.

Bobeagleburger

What did he dose his bunk with? Spunk?

Run_to_da_hills

More on this story and a bit more subtance then the Indo. Its $100,000 according to this:

Tony Geller, the manager of the European Safety Data Vault (ESDV) project, left the five-star hotel last week without paying his check or leaving a forwarding address.

Geller had been based in the hotel for more than a year and had previously been considered a good customer. The head of ESDV’s American parent company, Ricardo Martinez, said he was unaware of any issues with the Irish division.

The parent company, Safety Intelligence Systems, is based in New York. The company makes black-box technology for cars and is already used in about 1.5m vehicles in America. The car black-boxes are similar to the aircraft versions and can tell investigators how fast a car was traveling.

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/American-businessman-skips-out-on-Four-Seasons-in-Dublin-51136922.html

orourkeda

Nice. Another investment scam. How interesting?

ScumLord

It's true, I saw him open his window and fire a zip line across to the adjacent building. He turned and said something to a very attractive lady just before he slid down the line, dropped into his Aston martin and sped away. The guards arrived just as he left.

thomond2006

Apparently at a Fianna Fail Rally, Charlie Huaghey bought drinks for everyone in the bar, and then conviently ****ed off before the tab was totted up.

weeder

that man is a legend

mikemac

The hotel management are fools for allowing this to even get to this stage.

When I worked in hotels we did pre-authorizations on credit cards.
And if it was by cheque we looked for cheque cards.
And if it was an account, only management can organize that.

100K lost?
A few hard workers on minimum wage are going to lose their jobs over this as the hotel try to recover the cost.
And management will hardly sack themselves!

username4321

LEGEND

Run_to_da_hills

weeder wrote: »

that man is a legend

Another Breffine O Brien.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5375606.ece