Well that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Someone knocked over an International House Of Pancakes somewhere in Texas and got exactly what they were looking for. A few weeks ago some guy was caught on surveillance video breaking into a pizza joint. He threw a brick through the glass front door scrambled through the hole, picked up the tip jar and forgot which side of the double door he had come in through ad went head first into the unbroken door that didn’t give way. Instead the bandit bounced off the glass door and fell on his butt. Discovering his mistake, he picked himself up again and went through the correct door this time.
The IHOP bandit however, who by the way they are calling the “Bathroom Bandit” is seen on surveillance tape walking into the restaurant while it was still open and proceeding to the bathroom. With five minutes of entering he leaves with plumbing supplies and fixtures. Not till much later is the heist discovered when a customer alerts restaurant employees to the fact that their plumbing wasn’t working. It turns out that the bathroom bandit’s loot included water pipes and flush handles from two toilets and a urinal. Can someone say drug addict?
Well I guess there are only so many places that you can put surveillance cameras and the bathroom is probably not one of them. Of course for restaurant owner has probably never considered the possibility of someone walking off the street into the bathroom and making off with enough supplies to open his own plumbing store. So call a plumbing repair service (which I believe the must have) make very sure that the company is a licensed plumbing contractor (because you don’t want to add insult to injury) and get your repairs done. Make sure also to have a good laugh about it. Do you think the Bathroom Bandit was a plumber to have done all those supplies in just five minutes? Geez, now that’s a plumber I want to hire! Who thought they could work that fast?
I remember in high school the school administration had a problem with disappearing fittings. Someone would walk off the street and into our bathroom and make off with all our taps, urinals and even commodes, believe it or not. One evening the janitor ran into him in one of the bathrooms using a hacksaw blade to cut the PVC pipe. I wonder if it was the same guy?
