A Teenager Pretended To Be A Police Informant To Score Free Food

Every now and again police will try to sting restaurants for serving alcohol to minors, sending in their boy scout goons to catch those nefarious bartenders who would dare serve a beer to a 20-year-old who happens to look 40. It's an unfortunate situation, and bartenders can even end up going to jail.

Now, thanks to the bottomless shittiness of teenagers, one kid has found a way to use the threat of a police sting as a means to cash in a free meal ticket. A guy in Brooklyn recently went to Burger Village in Park Slope, ordered food and a couple of beers, and when the check was presented he threatened the server with a note saying that he was an NYPD informant to avoid paying his bill.

When manager Nick Yadav handed over the check for $45 (hope that burger was good) the customer asked for a pen and proceeded to write a note saying that, "I'm an informant for NYPD, that's up to you to call the police but you have just given two drinks to a minor. We are cracking down restaurants and businesses who give drinks to minors."

Yadav was taken aback by the man-teenager before him.

"I didn't realize he was talking about himself, because he was a grown-up man" Yadav told Gothamist.

"A gentlemen walks into the restaurant, sat at the bar, ordered food with beer," Yadav told Here's Park Slope. "By no means did he look like a minor to me or my staff because we always ask for an ID if a customer asks for beer or wine and seems underage."

Yadav asked for an ID, which the customer didn't have. Yadav then called his bluff, and the cops showed up and arrested the teenager, later identified as 19-year-old Jyshae Wiley. Next time he might want to think of an alternate escape plan better than sitting at the bar waiting to be arrested.

Yadav told Gothamist that he still doubts Wiley was underage. But he warned other bars to be on the lookout for other man-children trying to pull a fast one on restaurants.

There's a special circle in hell for people who dine and dash, but maybe in this case it would have been a better option. Pretending to be a snitch to score a burger and a couple beers? You can do better.