After enjoying a savory dinner at the Old City of Yerushalayim’s Ash-Shawish restaurant in the Christian Quarter, a tourist was shocked to discover, hours later, that his $100 meal had been charged over $10,000, more than a hundred times its worth.
Police quickly summoned the restaurant owners and ordered them to cancel their ill-gotten gain immediately.
In gratitude, the tourist appeared at the police station with a cake.
{Matzav.com Israel}
I don’t like this story. Has this been verified? I’m concerned about backlash against the Palestinian community.
TEDAKAH TATZIL MEMAVES.
The food was probably old and this way he didn’t get food poisoning and die.
Restaurant in the X’ian quarter?
Non kosher food?
He will pay much more than that in the Heavenly Court!
Maybe he was not jewish?
Probally the person who entered the amount in the computer simply didn’t put in a decimal point.
100.00 w/o a decimal point = 10000
Strange. Did he not look at the bill? And when he noticed the amount charged, and assuming the restaurant refused to straighten things out, why not call the credit card company? There are all sort of frauds (and occasionally, genuine mistakes) and credit cards handle them all the time. Especially so for customers who have a gold or platinum or black credit card, which this tourist must have had, else a 10K charge at the very least requires a phone call authorization (more likely, it is outright refused). Finally…. he brought a cake to the police station?!
to all you smart ones:
it was probably a credit card entry mistake, a lot less of a loss than those caused by binary betting,