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01st Feb 2015

Dublin pub Oscars uses Facebook to find bill dodgers

Oscars Café Bar 1, cheeky punters 0…

Oisin Collins

Facebook is more than a place to post your holiday pics (and stalk your ex).

Oscars Café Bar in Smithfield recently tracked down three punters who ran off without paying a €300 bill AND, to make matter worse, one of the lads caused damage to the restrooms.

How did the bar track the lads down? By threatening to post a screen-grab of their faces to Facebook. Genius…

Here’s what the pub had to say on the social media site: “To the three gin and tonic drinking well spoken ‘respectable’ punters who were in last night. You have 72 hours to compensate us €300 for the damage you did to our restrooms and running out without paying your bill last night.”

The pub went on to say that they would have “no hesitation in publishing our unpixelated footage” and gave the lads 72-hours to fess up and pay their dues.

Oscars Café Bar posted the warning at 2.30pm on Saturday afternoon and just 24-hours later they had an update in the form of a letter of apology and compensation.

JUSTICE!

Pic via Oscars Café Bar – Facebook.

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