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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApplebee’s waitress asks patron for ID, gets own stolen driver’s license in return
Imagine you're a waitress, out with friends on a night off, when you lose your wallet. Cash, credit cards, driver's licenseall gone. Your bank later informs you that checks are being issued in your name.
It's a pain, but you carry on. Two weeks later, you're at work when four people walk in and sit in your section. They start ordering drinks. You ask to see their IDs. A woman in the group hands a driver's license to you. You look down, and it's yours.
That is precisely what police in Colorado say happened to Brianna Priddy, a server at a Lakewood Applebee's.
Priddy, though, didn't panic.
"I handed it back to her and said, 'Sure, I'll be right back with your margarita,'" she told Denver's NBC affiliate.
Priddy called the police, and tried to act normal while waiting for them to arrive.
"I put on my server smile and tried to take care of them, but I was shaking like crazy," she said.
When police arrived, the woman, whose name has not been released, was arrested on suspicion of theft, identity theft and criminal impersonation. Police also found narcotics in her possession.
"Dumb criminal," Lakewood police spokesman Steve Davis told Denver's 9NEWS. "That's the first thing that comes to mind."
Even dumber: the suspect is 26, Davis said.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/applebees-waitress-stolen-id-drivers-license-154712609.html
trumad
(41,692 posts)unblock
(52,352 posts)great poker face on that waitress.
i can be pretty stone-faced when need be, but i have to think i would have looked at the id just a little too long....
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Even though the thief was 26, perhaps she was also going to use the ID with one of the stolen credit cards.
Or she's just stupid.
Cha
(297,774 posts)a couple of years back in the early '90s.
I can imagine how shaken she was and props to her for keeping her Cool. I hope she got more than just her license back!
Thanks Tony_FLADEM
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)... for being so inconsiderate to a customer.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)"I'm waiting for Applebee's to fire her...."
GOOD ONE!!!!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)esp. when the reporter went to the trouble to use the suspect's age as more proof that the suspect is a "dumb criminal"
dsc
(52,169 posts)when you should be able to drink. My guess is the criminal was going to pay by check or credit card and wanted to match.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Or am I missing your point?
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)She had decided to finance her lifestyle by dong identity theft. So she probably didn't have the money to pay for her night out on the town - that was something she thought her new identity would provide for her.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Whether it is accurate or well thought out . . .
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)She got caught for a stupid reason... got carried away having a new identity I guess.
what a great story though.
rocktivity
(44,580 posts)display proof that they can identify themselves AND are over age 20.
rocktivity
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)the server? Her license has a photo. If the suspect did not even look like the server, how long could she expect to pull it off?
donheld
(21,311 posts)I've been to that restaurant and had the server wait on me.
EC
(12,287 posts)I guess like with my photo on my license, it really doesn't seem to look like me. I always wondered when people ask for an id and look at mine and then look at me and then say ok...do they really think I look like the photo or just don't care.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)You look at the photo at least once and would not hand it to someone who looks like that photo...what a tool...
JHB
(37,163 posts)After all, what are the odds? I suppose better than the lottery, but the prize for "winning" isn't nearly as nice.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Which is lucky for the waitress
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The local Appleby's does that and it's nice, in a way.
PS: Great story. Thanks for the heads-up, Tony_FLADAM! Ours really may be an Associative Universe, as Dr. Jacques Vallee puts it.
mainer
(12,031 posts)I probably would have blurted out "What the hell! This is my ID!"
JI7
(89,278 posts)i had many fantasies about beating up the 2 pieces of shits who did it.
mckara
(1,708 posts)I know this post adds nothing to the discussion, but I found it so stunning, I had to say something.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)on my driver's license and other photo IDs!!!!!
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Next, hopefully she gets a job at a place less crappy than Applebee's.
Bake
(21,977 posts)Hmmmm.
Bake
rocktivity
(44,580 posts)So keeping it as evidence shouldn't be a problem for her.
rocktivity
Initech
(100,107 posts)Grateful for Hope
(39,320 posts)How excellent!
applegrove
(118,832 posts)and took the ID to use to get into bars.