The boys involved in the stunt are Spanish students on Erasmus in Rome. They would have had to pay a bill of almost 100 euros. The owner decided not to report them also because the story had an unexpected happy ending.
They have breakfast complete with coffee and croissants and they consumed 27 beers. Then they left without paying. It happened in a bar Bari. The protagonists are everyone Spanish students in Erasmus in Rome. After the story was made known by the local newspaper Quintopotere.it, the young people apologized and asked for the IBAN to be able to pay the bill, but the owner’s gesture was exemplary: “For this time I’m on it“.
“It was 8 in the morning. They stayed for five hours, they left little by little, the bill was 95 euros. We brought it to the table but there were only a few left, they said they would pay but all it took was an oversight of a few seconds and we never saw them again“, Giuseppe, the owner of the restaurant, Due Emme, said a few days ago.
A week later the story had an unexpected happy ending. The owner has in fact received the following letter from the six young people:
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We are very sorry for what happened, we were returning from a party and we weren’t aware of what we were doing. We have reflected and we are not that kind of people, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. We are Erasmus students in Rome and we are no longer in Bari, but we kindly ask you to provide us with an Iban for make the bank transfer immediately. We apologize again.”
Giuseppe then made it known that he appreciated it the boys’ apologies after the stunt. And, surprisingly, you announced that you had decided to “offer” the tour this time: “I was happy when I read the email – she told the local newspaper –. I’m happy because they understood the mistake, they repented and wanted to compensate us. This time, however, I decided to offer.”
And for the occasion he ironically created one beer-shaped cake: “It seemed like the right way to me, because all’s well that ends well.”
