Woman track down and Restaurant for customers using the bathroom exposed

When you gotta go, you gotta go. But sometimes, or it will cost.

One woman learned an important lesson in this way, Erin, Tennessee in a bathroom pit stop at a local restaurant after.

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The bizarre story began when Patricia Barnes stopped the flood zone before leaving the restroom without making a purchase, what did they used to. Then, a few days
after his visit Barnes powder room received a manuscript of his house that he owed $ 5 restaurants mailed note.

"I have been in violation of that," he WSMV TV in Nashville, whose reporters last week, several months into the story (incident happened in late October) after the break. In addition, the Today show Thursday, "I did not realize it was a crime, in this city there was plenty of restaurants, and other cities, you know, and other states."

Barnes local restaurant owner the right track as its license plate, also helped run the sheriff below that. The owner is upset that the customer is the only customer a high quality bathroom was ignored, and that the customer had to pay $ 5 for the privilege.

! Shine Barnes, he said, came in restaurants, "[Wall] menu looked like he was going to order the that, 'I wash my hands,' have stayed in bathroom for, like, 20 minutes, "and then left. Lisa explained that she recently put signs about $ 5 charge, and that the convenience store across the street to a broken toilet "12 to 15 people a day," his bathroom, which continued The response was time to clean up the messes that someone did.

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But Barnes, who can not be reached by light WSMV-TV services said he first asked permission to use.

Barnes said the bill, which twice, he tried to play, and the owners refused flood zone was not angry about ("I take the 5 dollars will not," Lisa Shine told). What worried him, though the police with Lisa and her husband Randy Edwards' billed email address so they can be shared. In the past couple said they had an order against, and was guarded about his private information.

"People just run your tags and your information is only right to give someone," Edwards told WSMV. Houston County sheriff, said Darrell Allison, however, it was not biggie.

"I would say every day," he told the TV station. "This is a very common phenomenon."

However, local, state Rep. John C. Tidwell competition, "as I define it, it would be illegal," he said, explaining that the license plate information only for the purposes of law enforcement is used. "Information should never have been complete business. These information by a State agency or official has considered the action."

When reached by phone, a reception for Sheriff Allison told Yahoo! Shine said he was not about to give any further comment. '

Meanwhile, Lisa flood zone non-customers to use the bathroom left to charge. "I do not think it ever will be true," he said, adding that the report has been broken, the "smart Alec" asked the restaurant was drowned. "I was just trying to prove a point."

Maybe next time Barnes in a jam, they will instead hit a nearby pizza pit stop.