My wife (total
) went to dinner and drinks with some hometown friends (KU ppl, this is 100% truth, they're like the only Sqwaks in this entire town that I know of). She left early, and then those people walked on their tab. Bar ended up charging over $300 of drinks/food to my wife's card. She called her friend and her friend told her to fight it with her CC company. Real classy.
My wife would hunt her friends down and pin them to the curb for that money.
Tell your wife to get viscous about it.
Haha, she is so sweet she didn't know what to do. She couldn't believe people could be so low, especially people she had been close to all her life. Eventually her friend's brother made it right but it took two weeks. I'll have my wife put your wife's number on speed dial if she ever needs to contract out some viscous.
EDIT: Oh, part of the point of the story is that these bars are going to charge somebody, anybody, to get that money.