One way to get paid!

enricoh

https://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/man-on-digger-smashes-up-new-travelodge-on-day-of-completion-899167.html

Had a good laugh out of this!

enricoh

enricoh wrote: »

https://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/man-on-digger-smashes-up-new-travelodge-on-day-of-completion-899167.html

Had a good laugh out of this!

Handy enough getting up the steps too!

Fr_Dougal

From the article:

Award-winning Irish chef Richard Corrigan has offered a £1,000 reward for information about a customer who “dined and dashed” at one of his London restaurants.
The restaurateur, 54, posted a picture on social media of a man who he said racked up a £1,500 bill and “finished with a Cuban (then) walked in to the night” after eating at Corrigan’s Mayfair on December 18.
He renewed his appeal on Twitter on Friday, saying there was “1000 Corrigan eating pounds” on offer for anyone with information about the man he called “Mr Pimpernel”.

bear1

Who'd be responsible for swallowing the costs of the damage?

seamus

bear1 wrote: »

Who'd be responsible for swallowing the costs of the damage?

The guy who did it, but it's the builder who'd sue him, not the travelodge.

This may actually be something of a sad case, according to reddit.

The typical standard in these cases is that the main contractor "owns" the building while the building work is going on. When the job is finished, signed off by the customer, and the money handed over, ownership of the building is then legally handed over to the customer. This protects the contractor; he owns the building until he's been paid.

If a sub-contractor has not been paid, he is entitled to register a lien on the building until his bill has been cleared. This blocks the transfer of the building to the customer and forces the main contractor to clear his debts.

In this case, rather than go through the legal process, some guy has lost the head and is now facing financial ruin and potentially prison over a small unpaid bill.

Which is actually kind of sad. Hopefully he gets whatever help he may need with his mental health.

Captain Obvious

Am I missing something? The link is to a story about a fella smashing up a Travelodge. Where's the comedy?

Scotty #

enricoh wrote: »

One way to get paid!

...more like one way to never be employed again.

markc1184

Scotty # wrote: »

...more like one way to never be employed again.

Presumably there will be some sort of custodial sentence on top too?

spurious

enricoh wrote: »

Had a good laugh out of this!

Surely his beef was with the contractor, rather than Travelodge directly?

orourkeda1977

Scotty # wrote: »

...more like one way to never be employed again.

Or one way to make sure that whatever you do earn is spent on legal services

s14driftking

Listen for the contractor to pay men’s wages in future. This is a ongoing problem in construction and truck driving.

McMurphy

Thought this was going to be about that clown in England who went on a mini digger rampage through a hotel over £600 he was owed. What a dick.

super_furry

Brits always nicking out stuff. Tallaght did it first and did it better.

KungPao

This thread makes lots of sense.

This thread is multitasking

Suckit

Azaelia Banks said the Aer Lingus staff she saw are ugly. Aer Lingus not looking for her. Link also in that online publication.

whiskeyman

There definitely should be a second referendum about the wall that the travellers will build...

blade1

They said on the radio that the reason he didn't get his money was because of a glitch at the bank.
If so,he is some spanner!!

Fr_Dougal

blade1 wrote: »

They said on the radio that the reason he didn't get his money was because of a glitch at the bank.
If so,he is some spanner!!

Then he shouldn’t have eaten in a Michelin starred restaurant.

blade1

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Then he shouldn’t have eaten in a Michelin starred restaurant.

Is that a different story or what?
Link in op is about a worker smashing up a travel lodge.

Bob Harris

blade1 wrote: »

Is that a different story or what?
Link in op is about a worker smashing up a travel lodge.

No, he ate in a Travelodge and ran up a 1500 quid bill. Then the chef (Michel his name was or Michelin to his friends) threw a strop and decided to demolish the place.

Deebles McBeebles

Yeah. There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident.

7aubzxk43m2sni

You'd wonder why he was on such a small plane and not a regular commercial flight

blade1

Thanks for clearing that up.
Makes perfect sense now!

SlipperyPeople

Seems like replies to three threads are getting merged :pac:

Azealiz banks, richard Corrigan and the travelodge digger

Avatar MIA

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Then he shouldn’t have eaten in a Michelin starred restaurant.

Er, Don't think the Travel lodge restaurant is opened yet

He could have been caught out more that once its happened a few time in Ireland.

That could lead to feeling disparate imagine not getting paid for weeks or months of work and it happening more that once and even worse you have no choice but to work that way because of the way the system works.

blade1

SlipperyPeople wrote: »

Seems like replies to three threads are getting merged :pac:

Azealiz banks, richard Corrigan and the travelodge digger

Ok,so which one of them molested the goat?
Or was that the Al Porter thread?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

So a guy with a cigar ate in a restaurant and then wrecked it with a mini digger.....or something like that?

razorblunt

The contractor's Xmas wages weren't paid until mid January and some of them that weren't chasing for payment are yet to receive it.

DVD-Lots

What's the difference between a duck? One of its legs are both the same. Or it could be as close as a lingerie shop with no front windows.

Or something similar I gather?

SEPT 23 1989

blade1 wrote: »

They said on the radio that the reason he didn't get his money was because of a glitch at the bank.
If so,he is some spanner!!

cheque is in the post was the old excuse

Deebles McBeebles

I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.

screamer

In the uk the laws are much stricter as regards getting paid, if you take a case they have 30 days to pay up.

Here, it’s much worse and many a building company or small subbie goes to the wall because of assholes not paying them.

It’s a tough business, profits are small because costs are huge and you’ve to be a tough bastard to make a living in it.

Given all that, they should know, you must pay your workers. I don’t blame him for being pissed off, who knows what bills or pressure he has to sort out, most companies have to pay their employees every week and wait months on end, if ever to get that money paid out by the contractor. You don’t mess people around like that.

Boom_Bap

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.

are you trying to tell me there is a party in your pants and that I'm invited

Hector Savage

Fair play to him.
He was tired of being robbed.
As Joe Pesci says in Casino - If I'd any heart I'd be out stealing for a living.

Spot on , everyone else does it.

gozunda

enricoh wrote: »

https://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/man-on-digger-smashes-up-new-travelodge-on-day-of-completion-899167.html
Had a good laugh out of this!

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

From the article

Award-winning Irish chef Richard Corrigan has offered a £1,000 reward for information about a customer who “dined and dashed” at one of his London restaurants.
The restaurateur, 54, posted a picture on social media of a man who he said racked up a £1,500 bill and “finished with a Cuban (then) walked in to the night” after eating at Corrigan’s Mayfair on December 18.
He renewed his appeal on Twitter on Friday, saying there was “1000 Corrigan eating pounds” on offer for anyone with information about the man he called “Mr Pimpernel”.

Must of been this lot

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12190151

jmayo

razorblunt wrote: »

The contractor's Xmas wages weren't paid until mid January and some of them that weren't chasing for payment are yet to receive it.

But just as soon as Trump gets his money for the wall they will all be paid, right!

Maybe this lad will get a job building the wall.
So long as he isn't Mexican that is.

recedite

Receptionist;
"I'm sorry sir, we have a No mini-digger policy in this hotel"


Customer;
"What, you never told me that when I booked it. I go everywhere in my mini-digger.
Feck, that ceiling is low, isn't it!"

gozunda

spurious wrote: »

Surely his beef was with the contractor, rather than Travelodge directly?

There was no beef whatsoever! The EAT "planetary health diet" made sure of that ...

Bob Harris

In a restaurant in León, Spain a few years ago a group of 120 left without paying.
As dessert was being served they got up and started to do the conga around the restaurant and
once the first person headed out the door, the rest followed. They all hopped into their cars and
left a 2000k bill.

Deebles McBeebles

https://newsthump.com/2019/01/22/lenny-henry-sought-in-connection-with-digger-attack-on-travelodge/

GinAndBitter

Captain Obvious wrote: »

Am I missing something? The link is to a story about a fella smashing up a Travelodge. Where's the comedy?

Comedy is subjective.

blade1

GinAndBitter wrote: »

Comedy is subjective.

Another way for saying in this case it's shît.

GinAndBitter

blade1 wrote: »

Another way for saying in this case it's shît.

That's your view on it, others will find it hilarious.

Subjective.....

Gimme A Pound

Hector Savage wrote: »

Fair play to him.
He was tired of being robbed.
As Joe Pesci says in Casino - If I'd any heart I'd be out stealing for a living.

Spot on , everyone else does it.

Everyone else ploughs into buildings?

Gadgetman496

I'm happy enough to stay driving on the right hand side.

DColeman

Anyone seen the youtube video for it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCBX778YHqA

doolox

Eliminate!