Restaurant prices are out of control these days.


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Back in the distant past of, like, four years ago, you could stumble into a McDonald’s and buy a McChicken with your pocket change. Now, fast-food giants like McDonald’s and Taco Bell have somehow gotten the idea that they’re luxury restaurants in disguise, leading to such abominations as the nearly $20 Big Mac meal.


Those confronting these high prices may decide to avoid restaurants altogether. Or, if they’re like this Lithuanian man, they might hatch a scheme to get out of restaurant bills for good. The plan? Fake a heart attack. A lot of heart attacks.



According to the various Spanish restaurants that have been victim to his scam, his method is pretty simple. He goes into a restaurant, orders something small, then fakes a heart attack. Soon after, he’s escorted away, his bill left unpaid.


Surely his heart attacks are pretty convincing then, right? After all, he’s managed to do this at 20 different restaurants. Well, according to one restaurant owner, while his heart attacks may have been realistic at the beginning, his heart (ironically) just isn’t in it anymore. “It was very theatrical,” said a restaurant manager of one of the man’s heart-attack incidents. “He pretended to faint and slumped himself down on the floor.”





The local Spanish restaurant scene responded to this man’s antics by sending his photo around to other restaurant owners in the area. He’s also been arrested, though given that he didn’t order much from each restaurant, his actual punishment will likely be minimal. “The man has now been jailed for 42 days for refusing to pay his fines. Because each incident only cost the businesses a small amount of money at a time, the offense is only considered a ‘minor crime,’” explains The Daily Express.


That said, some restaurants are getting together to try to slap this portly Lithuanian with a joint complaint that might land him in jail for two years. If they do manage to pin him down, you and I both know there’s only one way out — yet another heart attack, only this time, he’s really gotta sell it. No more half-hearting it.