Busted! Should Coupon Fight Lead to No Country Buffet for Old Man?
Patch uncovers some of the stranger Tinley Park Police reports. In this installment, a 73-year-old man knocks down a restaurant manager over a coupon dispute.
Busted! takes a look at the more unusual reports that the men and women of the Tinley Park Police Department respond to. Names have been withheld to protect the innocent, the guilty and the embarrassed. There comes a time in every man's life when he needs to stand up to injustice. Like when a restaurant doesn't accept your coupon. A 73-year-old man was accused of assaulting a manager Nov. 3 at Old Country Buffet, 16060 S. Harlem Ave., after the manager wouldn't accept the customer's coupon, according to a police report. No one was charged in the incident—the manager was worried what corporate headquarters would think, and the customer was given a trespass notice. And the details of what actually transpired as told by three people involved …
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Lucybagussie Mochang
10:48 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012
Old Country Buffet (OCB) sucks at accepting coupons. If the manager hasn't seen or heard of the coupon that you're trying to redeem, you get treated like some kind of master counterfeiter out to put OCB out of business by passing them a $5.00 of two dinners coupon! The food is barely fit for human consumption so it's no big loss. I've been through the OCB coupon BS before and we have not been … more ›