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Rather an expensive graduation party. Guess what? Alcohol will cloud your judgment. It's probably a bad idea to do your drinking in a place where the basic business model is founded on taking advantage of the customers' somewhat-less-than-rational desires.

As far as the legitimacy of the credit card charges is concerned, they are probably as legitimate as any charges for alcohol after the first couple of drinks. I'm a little surprised that American Express did not flag the charges and call the cardholder when they occurred. I've had that happen when I made a radical departure from my normal spending pattern. I don't think that this justifies the use of the sheriff's department to investigate, though. The kid messed up. If anything, it's a civil matter - unless they can prove that the signatures were forged. The simplest explanation, poor judgment fueled by alcohol consumption, seems the most likely, however.

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  • That means he's not getting a new "C-Class", this year.
  • If you call your 24-year-old, university-graduate "Tommy", you are not exactly indicating that you expect adult-level decision making.

    "Now Daddy's gonna' complain for you too, about those mean, stripper ladies!"
  • As far as the legitimacy of the credit card charges is concerned, they are probably as legitimate as any charges for alcohol after the first couple of drinks.

    My understanding is that pushing ludicrously high transactions on an obviously impaired customer is likely to get voided. And the club owner's scrambling to insist on the customer's sobriety suggests he thinks the same thing.

    • "Obviously impaired" is a slippery thing. The owner would be saying the same thing in either case.

      The champagne prices are indeed ludicrous, but it's just like anything else in a strip club. Money is extracted from customers in exchange for playing up to their fantasies - up to a point. This kind of thing seems to hit the news a couple of times a year. If one chooses to indulge oneself in such a manner, this is one of the possible consequences.
  • What a chump. If the signatures are indeed forged, then smack down the strip joint. However, if they are really his signatures, let him enjoy working his first year out of college paying off his party.

    The fellow stuck his head into the lions mouth and got bit. Even if the kid was drunk and not fully in control of his mental abilities when he signed the receipts, he was sober making the choice to go to a place that makes money having the lowest morals and make himself drunk. I have more sympathy for the
  • Give your 24 year old son your credit card, send him to a strip club, and expect, what? Responsibility? Poor decisions carry their own consequences for everyone involved.
    • Shadow Wrought posted:

      Give your 24 year old son your credit card, send him to a strip club,
      and expect, what? Responsibility? Poor decisions carry their own consequences
      for everyone involved.

      Admittedly, I'm not a parent. I don't think theres any circumstances I'd give my
      kid a cc with that kind limit. I might send he/she to a strip club in the hopes
      that they'd see what the big deal isn't.


      I'm 34, I've never actually had the pleasure/displeasure of visiting one of these
      establishments. However, I, I'm not sure who gets the biggest moron award here:

      • Parents - assuming kid with college degree learned accountability and budgeting while under the influence
      • College g
  • He's 24, he's a man, not a kid. At 24, he is considered old enough, for example, to be the captain of an airliner. Or a boat with fare paying passengers. Or drive a train. Or be at some command level in the armed forces. Or drive 40 sizzling tons of semi-truck down the highway. At 24 years old, I was not only living away from home, I had moved continents! It always irked me very slightly that older people called me a kid when I was 24. Kids live at home and have no responsibility and go to high school. Not
    • Well, that's exactly the point - kid-like judgment, in someone who ought to be more responsible.

      I was a father shortly after I turned 24, so I know pretty much what you're talking about.

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