$53,000 Fort Walton strip club bill

SoWal Insider

Oct 29, '07 · 11:18 AM2,561

Father disputes son's $53,000 Fort Walton strip club bill
Associated Press

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- A father wants investigators to pursue fraud and larceny charges against a Panhandle strip club after his son ran up a $53,000 bill in a single night while celebrating his college graduation.

Joe Salter, 52, of Mary Esther, told investigators Club 10 employees took advantage of his 24-year-old son, Tommy. The younger Salter was at the club Aug. 18 to celebrate his graduation from Georgia Tech.

According to a report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Salter told employees he could only spend $600. But Club 10 owner Tim Beal said Salter bought at least 19 bottles of champagne - priced from $150 to $2,000.

Beal said Salter signed a receipt for each champagne purchase and even scrawled his initials next to itemized charges. But the elder Salter said only the signature on the first receipt matches his son's.

The sheriff's report alleges larceny and credit card fraud.

Beal said Salter appeared to know what he was doing throughout the night.

"This fellow was lucid," Beal said. "He was actually dancing with the manager, Chris, right before he left."

Beal said he had already talked to American Express after Salter filed a complaint with the company, seeking to have part of the charge withdrawn. The company decided in Club 10's favor, he said.

---------------------------------------------------------

The best comment posted after this article:

College degree from Georgia tech $40,000.00.

A night of partying at a strip club $53,000.00.

Having the coconuts to think the credit card company will forgive the bill...priceless.
----------------------------------------------------------

I guess stripper champagne is the next "Bubble" here in the Panhandle.
I wonder what's the difference between the $150 bottle and the $2,000 bottle? :roll:

.

Edited Oct 29, '07 · 11:23 AM

Replies

Beach Fanatic

Oct 30, '07 · 12:22 PM#52

UUUUUHHHH,

Just wondering, has this kid been checked for STD's since this event? :confused:

Beach Fanatic

Oct 30, '07 · 12:59 PM#53

According to a report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Salter told employees he could only spend $600.

According to the Smoking gun report:
They arrived at Club 10 at 2:00 a.m.
All of the charges occured during a 5 hour period.
He paid $500.00 for a lap dance and tipped her $100.

So he just went in with the intention of getting ONE lap dance (+tip) and wasnt going to drink anything??? Doesnt sound like much of a "celebration" to me. Lying little *@#&%^. If I was Dad I would make him get a "service industry" job and pay it! With a degree from GT that shouldnt take him too long.

SoWal InsiderAuthor

Oct 30, '07 · 1:38 PM#54

If I was Dad I would make him get a "service industry" job and pay it! With a degree from GT that shouldnt take him too long.

Yeah, but what if his soon-to-be employer Googles his name?

.

Beach Lover

Oct 30, '07 · 3:17 PM#55

I can understand how the kid spent that much money. I ,once spent $1600 and gave the girl my 1978 Vega. She promised that she would briad my beard but never did.

SoWal Expert

Oct 30, '07 · 3:59 PM#56

Definitely some sketchy details - like the father's claim that 24/30 receipts were posted after the club was supposed to close at 4 am.

Regardless, what a twit!

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/9826

Beach Fanatic

Nov 7, '07 · 3:40 PM#57

Update... The last 39k was free

, what a deal :blink:

http://www.thedestinlog.com/articles/article.showarticle.db.php?a=3081

SoWal Expert

Nov 7, '07 · 3:42 PM#58

14K strip club bill is still pretty funny! :funn:

SWGB

Nov 7, '07 · 11:37 PM#59

Let's do some simple math:

Let's start by making some conservative assumptions.
Celebrating one's graduation, they probably had an early dinner and arrived to Club 10 at an early hour of 8pm. I have no idea how late Club 10 remains open, but let's say that they left Club 10 at 2am, giving them six hours at the strip club.

They spent $53,000 over an estimated six hours, making that $8,833 per hour. Let's also guess that half of the money was spent on $2,000 bottles of champagne and the rest on the strippers and body shots. At that rate, this kid and his friends would be drinking two bottles of champagne every hour. Let's guess that there were four people in his party, not including strippers. With that math, each person would drink on avg a half bottle of champagne every hour for six hours, equating to three bottles of champagne throughout the evening. Can you say, "alcohol poisoning," or "terrible hangover?" On top of that, we know they had to be doing some shots of Jaigermeister and body shots off the "ladies." Even if there were eight people in the party, that is still a bottle and a half of champagne per person, plus other liquor. I hope they had a sober driver.

If you go to TSG he was apparently driven home by one of the strippers.