$3.25 For Bacon: Man Charged With Damage
A 34 year old man appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday [Nov 12] where he was charged with damaging Paraquet Restaurant’s door as he was annoyed with being charged $3.25 for a serving of bacon.
Mark DaCosta had his guilty plea rejected and must return to Court on 19th November to resolve the matter.
Mr DaCosta had been charged with willfully damaging a glass door at the Paraquet Restaurant which he described as a family owned restaurant and where, he said, he had been “going there every Sunday”.
The damage to the door was said to be $608.90 and Mr DaCosta said that he had already admitted doing the damage and had offered to pay.
Giving the facts of the matter to Senior Magistrate Archie Warner, Crown Prosecutor Susan Mulligan said that Mr DaCosta’s action had been captured on CCTV and been witnessed by a cashier.
Mr DaCosta told the Magistrate that he was annoyed at being charged $3.25 for a serving of bacon and had challenged the restaurant staff on this.
He said that he was still angry and that as he was leaving, with both hands full of food, he used his foot to open the door, but the door’s glass had shattered.
He said that soon after, he had called his cousin Johnny Pereira, had apologized, and had offered to pay for the damage.
Mr DaCosta told the Magistrate that he was irritated over the $3.25 charge for bacon, and said that his cousin was just being childish in calling in the police and taking the matter this far.
Having heard his explanation, the Senior Magistrate said that his explanation seemed to rule out the key element of wilfullness in causing the damage.
The Magistrate said that his explanation raised an important issue and a doubt and that his guilty plea could not therefore be accepted. The Magistrate rejected the guilty plea and ordered that both parties should return to Court on 19th November.
Mr DaCosta was granted $1,000 bail.
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$3.25 for some lousy bacon? FROM YA OWN CUZZIE?!?! O no way…
How many pieces of bacon were in this order, exactly?
You shouldn’t go ‘bacon’ glass doors over the issue though…they ‘break-fast’ when kicked…
Paraquet needs to charge that much for bacon to pay for all the renovations they’ve done… in 1967
Their mozzarella sticks are $10 for 5! Cheaper to eat at Harrys or POC.
Just a shadow of things to come in Bermy, stay tuned.
go away. and leave the island please and thank you
Thanks, Mazumbo, for your input on such a salty matter.
We are all getting ‘porked’ by the prices of food in Bermuda.
FUNNNNNY!!
haha… I see what you did there B|
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH GREATEST STORY IN LIFE!!!!!!!!
They charge like $5 for just like 3 or 4 pieces at Bermy Cuisine, good thing you didn’t go there.
3.25 for bacon. Was the bacon in question hickory smoked? Center cut perhaps? Maybe we shall start a inquest into the quality of swine used to make this bacon.
The bacon is cut with the most exotic of knives. In fact just mentioning it marinates the bacon alone….
Worries me that the glass door shattered so easily! Shouldn’t it be toughened safety glass? Seems the Paraquet restaurant owners have a lot to answer for regarding Health & Safety & Public Liability!!! The case should be the other way around.
Fun Fact of the day for you Ms. Daniels. That door was the first glass door ever installed in Bermuda. It came directly off the Sea Venture and straight up to Paget. The Maritime Museum has been trying to buy it off them for years.
well no u just paid $608.90 for some bacon bra…how u like dat deya!!!
You can probably buy a whole pig for less!Hahahahaha!
bacon disgusting only the infidel and the kuffar eat swine ….allah u akbar
You ain’t tried bacon, have you?!
Make you change religions QUICK-TIME!
I laughed so hard at this.
Where do you get off calling people infidels? We used to call you heretics, heathens and all sorts of names….back in like the 14th century. We’ve grown up and stopped. Please do the same.
This comment should be deleted. Infidels? Kuffar? Bigotry at its finest….why are these people given a “pass” on what they say, because they are muslims?
“Kuffar is a highly derogatory Arabic term used to refer to non-Muslims, though it is usually directed less against “People of the Book” (Christians and Jews) and more against others (Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, etc).
Separate laws govern Muslims and kuffars in an Islamic state with kuffars being viciously suppressed. For example: the blood payment to the family of a murdered Muslim man in Saudi Arabia is 1,000,000 Riyals; the payment to the family of a murdered Hindu woman is 3,333 Riyals.”
love pig always and I am not an infidel, bet you ate some and never knew it.
Infidel and proud!
Also a gentile and a heathen.
That guy is a ham. Get it. See what I did there
I have to admit $3 25 for a side order of bacon is outrageous however i,m a little concerned about the glass breaking so easily…………..
Why is it that everyone is going on about the price of bacon, and no one is making comments on the fact that regardless of what he was charged for it, he had no right to react the way he did and allegedly break anything.
Prices may be high, but if you don’t want to pay restaurant prices…eat at home.
It’s not like he came back with a brick and smashed the glass door. His hands were full and he used his foot as many of us do. Was he frustrated and used some force? I’m sure he did as most of us would but I doubt his intention was to break the door. Suppose it was a child that ran into the door or someone who rushed in out of the rain. Probably still would have broken.
Slices of bacon = $3.25
Broken door = $608.90
Getting your name in the paper and showing the world what an idiot you are = PRICELESS!
That picture of the bacon looks too well!
Thanks Bernews! Making me hungry!
sounds like a load of old bacon to me.
How old was the door? I think the judge should see the video because he may not have intended to break it! We all know Parakeet is so old and run down!! But I think the owner should have allowed him to pay for it. Why are we wasting the court time?
Honestly, $3.25 isn’t that bad. That’s pretty comparable to what you would pay for a side of bacon at a similar, diner-style restaurant in New York. I’ve seen bacon for much, much more in New York, and some of these places weren’t fancy, either.
So, basically he ended up paying $612.15 ($3.25 bacon $608.90 damage) for that order of bacon! That’s deep! Lol
Maybe DeCosta was as up as decosta da bacon. He sounds to me like a bit of a woinker. He should have calmed himself and not made such a rasher decision. Better be careful. He might end up at Westover instead of Westgate, and the porkers up there can be vicious.
One of my favorite restaurants to t when I am in Manhattan is Clinton Street Bakery and Restaurant. It is located on 4 Clinton Street, and they make fresh biscuits that make the travel time (about 20 minutes from midtown) to the establishment worth it. Here are the prices of their sides.
SIDES:
Double Smoked Bacon— 5; Sugar Cured Bacon— 6; House Rosemary Sausage— 6; Grilled Chorizo— 4; Maple Cured Ham— 4; Two Eggs Any Style— 5; Hash Browns— 4; Fried Green Tomatoes— 7; Cheese Grits — 5; Toast: sourdough/rye/7; -grain— 2; Hand Cut Fries— 5; Sweet Potato Fries— 6; Vidalia Onion Rings— 7; Dressed Greens— 5; Side Avocado— 4; LES Pickles— 3;Warm Maple Butter— 2; Biscuit w/ Butter & Jam— 3.
In the City, I learn very early that in restaurants of any size or decor, one must read before ordering; it can be a very expense mis-step if you don’t!
Double Smoked Bacon— $5 Sugar Cured Bacon— $6
mmm fancy bacon. Sounds like swine fit for the gods themselves.
How much do they charge for regular old bootleg microwave bacon? Also we all know portion sizes are 3x lager in the U.S.
This bacon you speak of sounded so amazing that I took the time to check out Clinton Street Bakery’s website… it’s clearly a restaurant of a ↑different↑ calibur. Just on the fact that THEY HAVE A WEBSITE!
Try $3.50 for bottled water (Costco Brand: Kirkland) at The Beach on Front Street (It is $20 for 30 at Pricerite).
Because you have staff and operating costs to get that bottle of water onto the table
@Voter….STFU. Its a ripoff point blank.
Get tap water it’s free dumba**
I think your the dumba** if you’d drink tapwater from the Beach…or any Bermuda tap for that matter.
If this clown is that upset over the price of bacon perhaps he is apoplectic over his Belco bill
Thank you Bermuda, the laughs where needed…..
Don’t mess with someone’s bacon!
holy mackrels,
i was at island cousine last weekend and they charged me $5.00 a LB for bacon. island cousine just lost my business. im a new customerof johnathan perria. dont fix the door. take it off the hinges. you gonna have customers flying in from everywhere. however, im not gonna be playing pinging marbles with no-one. im a bongy rollah.
Makin-Bacon
wow,
this court case next week could go viral. imagine if judge Warner rides a pig to work????? or if Mark shows up in a wheel chair? and wearing steel toe boots? and if the metal detectors are not working? and all bermuda’s farmers show up? im gonna go and witness this. gonna snatch me a grilled cheese and bacon sandwhich from Paraquete (TO GO). maybe 2! you think i could get 2 grilled cheese n bacon sandwhiches, and a lrge coffee for $3.25???????
If you can’t pay the fine….. don’t do the swine.
Bacon should be free
And they say blood is thicker than water…Ha Ha Ha