Moral of the story: if you’re going to eat and run, don’t leave your purse—or purses, plural—behind. Not one but three “ dine-and-dash” participants fled a Waffle House restaurant in Springfield, Missouri, without paying their $39 meal bill. Not one—but all three of the fleeing diners—left their purses behind at the restaurant.
The Waffle House general manager says the dining women seemed either intoxicated or under the influence of drugs while at the restaurant. Apparently whatever “influence” was occurring didn’t last long enough for the women not to realize their error--one of the women returned to the restaurant, demanding the purses that the trio had left behind.
The manager—in a display of intelligence on par with the women—says he told the returning woman that she’d need to wait for police to arrive. Strangely, the woman left without any of the belongings.
Police found identifying documents (aka, identification) in the purses—and what appeared to be a check stub from another Waffle House in Arkansas. Apparently the women paid the other Waffle House—or at least planned to claim the dining expenditure on taxes, which they surely file.
The police--in a display of intelligence on par with the women and the Waffle House manager—have yet to make an arrest, despite having identification for the “dine-and-dash” crew participants.