Westward Ho! Dine & Dash!

So unfortunately in this day and age theft from shops, leaving restaurants without paying, mugging the odd grandma and stealing mobile phones is an everyday occurance in modern society. It's not right but gets seen almost as the norm. 
It's not right but hardly makes the news anymore as we are all desensitised to it, used to it, accept it?

Not in Westward Ho!!! When 6 diners went into The Pier House, then after racking up a £225 bill, left through a side door, they ended up with way more heat than expected! Did the owner Rob Braddick get mad? No, he got even very, very cleverly! As a man of principle and pillar of the Westward Ho! community, he has even given the village a FREE car park to use, this also made National press, he just put a nice post of Facebook with a few photos letting them know they forgot their complimentary mints! The post read-

"Morning,need a bit of Help.
Six young people (3 male,3 female aged mid 20’s) booked a table at the Pier House last night,rattled up a bill of £225.00 and then completely “forgot” to pay and all left together out the side entrance,in a hurry.
Probably off to play the XBox together.
Gave a name Steele and a doubtful phone number.
Anyone recognise these chaps as they forgot also the complimentary mints.
Please PM me.
Rob
(Just my luck they parked for FREE too!)
#pierhousesix #piergate "

So, if you do feel the need to rob someone I guess the moral of the story is not to rob Rob. He does so much for the community and Westward Ho! that he has rightfully earn't a truck load of respect. The community was devastated for him and everyone rallied around to help. Within hours he knew where they had been before and afterwards, what they had eaten, where they fueled the car, card details, car registration which was all passed to the Police.

Made the news?? This story was ran by most of the UK national press putting Westward Ho! on the map. It was then picked up by Fox News in America, The Project in Australia and then just rolled and rolled getting bigger and bigger! The good publicity it has done the village can be seen in this websites Analytics...Last week we had 4.83% of the site views from America, probably trying to find out where the latest Super hero lives, works, loves and protects!

The icing on the cake has to be two days later we had the Westward Ho! New Years Day Fancy Dress Dip...Rob lets us use any of his businesses for our community events, this one we were on top of the Fairway Buoy as it over looks the wonderful beach. What does he come dressed as?? LOVE it (Photo above)...So come and #visitwestwardho, enjoy the events, meet the local legends, enjoy the beach, dip in the ocean, walk, take in the views, PAY for your goods/foods and NEVER, NEVER Rob Robin Braddick, it will end in a Facebook poop storm that will go Global!