A word to the wise, my friends…

Don’t mess around with bartenders, because they don’t play games!

But these college students apparently didn’t get the memo…

Check out what happened in this story from Reddit’s “Petty Revenge” page!

Bring your own drinks into the bar? Oh no they seem to have gone missing!

“Years ago, after graduating, I was assistant manager of a student union bar in the UK for a year.

For those unfamiliar, student union bars have cheap drinks, with all profits going towards funding events, societies, and sports teams. They also acted like a common rooms and students could hang out without having to buy anything.

There was one big rule.

Bringing in outside drinks, however, wasn’t allowed. We would have to stop people bringing outside drinks in maybe a couple of times a month.

Then one group started showing up every night with shopping bags full of booze. They never bought anything from the bar but got steadily wasted, so it was obvious something was up.

They were a generally obnoxious bunch, rude to staff and other students.

They hid their alcohol in a dark corridor near the toilets, dumping it under their coats. We caught them there a few times, told them it was staff only, and removed them but they kept at it.

They were tired of putting up with this.

So one night I waited until they stashed everything, then stepped out of the bar office (which opened right into that corridor), scooped up all their coats and bags (easily enough booze for a house party) and took it all back into the office.

Ten minutes later, their self-appointed leader sheepishly approached me at the bar:

“Hello mate, what can I get you?”

“Uh… nothing thanks… we left our coats in the corridor, but they’ve gone missing.”

“You mean the staff-only corridor we’ve removed you from before? Why would you put them there?”

“Uhh, we were just storing them until we left.”

“Alright, I’ll check if we’ve had anything handed in. Meet me in the corridor.”

I came out of the office door they clearly didn’t realise existed with their coats and handed them over.

“Oh, we, um… had some bags too.”

Here it comes…

“What was in them?”

“Erm… wine, beer, and vodka and stuff.”

I popped my head back into the office for all of a second, returned with a smile, and said:

“Sorry, no one’s handed in anything like that.”

Long pause.

“Oh. Okay,” the leader muttered, delightfully dejected, and they all slunk off.

I don’t think they set foot in the bar for the rest of the year.

Staff drinks that night were wild.”

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person chimed in.

Another reader shared a story.

And this individual spoke up.

No more booze smuggling for these jokers!

They got caught red-handed!

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