talk about a degenerate!

[Brock Landers]

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

Police say the Waukesha man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack. The cabdriver left unpaid.

Authorities say the man then ran up a $23 bill when he had a steak dinner at Applebee's. He again pretended to have a heart attack.

This time the fire department took him to a hospital. A doctor there recognized the man as having pulled the same stunt in the past few weeks.

He was charged Thursday with defrauding a restaurant as a habitual criminal. He could get up to nine months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

[englishmike]

The funniest part of all this is that he comes up with a scam so he doesn't have to pay for his food so therefore can eat at the best restaurant in town and decides to choose Applebee's. That right there tells you all you need to know.

[BuddyBear]

What's wrong with this country? Put this guy in jail for 9 months??? You got to be kidding. Make him pay his debts and give him a small fine and let him go....

[englishmike]

Maybe they should make him eat at Applebees for a year.

[Brock Landers]

The funniest part of all this is that he comes up with a scam so he doesn't have to pay for his food so therefore can eat at the best restaurant in town and decides to choose Applebee's. That right there tells you all you need to know.

if it were me i'd at least have gone to Ruth's Chris for a steak LOL

[InTheHole]

What's wrong with this country? Put this guy in jail for 9 months??? You got to be kidding. Make him pay his debts and give him a small fine and let him go....

He probably won't get 9 months unless his current behavior (doing the same thing over and over again with complete disregard for the consequences) is indictative of his past behavior.