3-1-2013
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-livi...rant-s-customers-only-bathroom-204931199.html
Woman Tracked Down and Busted for Using Restaurant's Customers-Only Bathroom
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But sometimes, itll cost ya.
That was the lesson one woman learned, in a major way, after making a bathroom pit stop at a local restaurant in Erin, Tennessee.
The bizarre tale began when Patricia Barnes stopped into the Flood Zone to use the restroom, which she did, before leaving without making a purchase. Then, a few days after her powder-room visit, Barnes received a handwritten notemailed to her homesaying she owed the restaurant $5.
Turns out the local sheriff helped track Barnes down by running her license plate, all as a favor to the owner of the restaurant. The owner was miffed that the non-customer ignored a sign about the bathroom being for customers only, and that non-customers had to pay $5 for the privilege.
Barnes said she wasnt angry about the bill, which she attempted to pay, twice, and which the Flood Zone owners refused
What did upset her, though, was that the police shared her and husband Randy Edwards address with Lisa so she could mail the bill. The couple said they'd had a restraining order against someone in their past, and have been protective about their private information.
People dont have the right to just run your tags and give your information out to just anybody, Edwards told WSMV. According to the Houston County Sheriff, Darrell Allison, though, it was no biggie.
I would say that happens every day, he told the TV station. Its a very common occurrence.
But, countered local state Rep. John C. Tidwell, The way I interpret it, it would be illegal, he said, explaining that license plate information is to be used only for law enforcement purposes. The information should not have ever been given over to the business. That is information that is supposed to be dealt with by the states agency or the official.
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-livi...rant-s-customers-only-bathroom-204931199.html
Woman Tracked Down and Busted for Using Restaurant's Customers-Only Bathroom
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But sometimes, itll cost ya.
That was the lesson one woman learned, in a major way, after making a bathroom pit stop at a local restaurant in Erin, Tennessee.
The bizarre tale began when Patricia Barnes stopped into the Flood Zone to use the restroom, which she did, before leaving without making a purchase. Then, a few days after her powder-room visit, Barnes received a handwritten notemailed to her homesaying she owed the restaurant $5.
Turns out the local sheriff helped track Barnes down by running her license plate, all as a favor to the owner of the restaurant. The owner was miffed that the non-customer ignored a sign about the bathroom being for customers only, and that non-customers had to pay $5 for the privilege.
Barnes said she wasnt angry about the bill, which she attempted to pay, twice, and which the Flood Zone owners refused
What did upset her, though, was that the police shared her and husband Randy Edwards address with Lisa so she could mail the bill. The couple said they'd had a restraining order against someone in their past, and have been protective about their private information.
People dont have the right to just run your tags and give your information out to just anybody, Edwards told WSMV. According to the Houston County Sheriff, Darrell Allison, though, it was no biggie.
I would say that happens every day, he told the TV station. Its a very common occurrence.
But, countered local state Rep. John C. Tidwell, The way I interpret it, it would be illegal, he said, explaining that license plate information is to be used only for law enforcement purposes. The information should not have ever been given over to the business. That is information that is supposed to be dealt with by the states agency or the official.
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