A Dolphins Beer Vendor Was Arrested For Charging $724 For Two Drinks On His Personal Card Reader At Sunday's Game

Miami Herald - Nathaniel Collier, a 33-year-old walking vendor, was busted at Sunday’s Miami Dolphins game for charging a fan $724 for two beers, Miami-Dade police said.

He grabbed the fan’s card and swiped it using a personal card reader, not the device the stadium provides to vendors, according to the police report. Shortly after the transaction was processed, the fan received an alert from his bank notifying him of the steep charge to his card.

Anyways, so apparently one of the walking beer vendors who had been working there for over a year decided to purchase his own card reader and charge someone $724 for two beers. Honestly, it's not the worst planned scam in the world, if only he wasn't so stupid and greedy. This dude could've swiped cards into his own reader for the original price and pocketed the already obnoxious $13 a beer, and maybe he wouldn't have gotten caught. Sneak your own $30 24-pack in when you come to work, sell those 24 at the standard $13 a pop, and boom: you just made an extra $300. But instead, he charged $724 for two beers, and he got caught within minutes.

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Shortly after the transaction was processed, the fan received an alert from his bank notifying him of the steep charge to his card. It also displayed the vendor’s name.

Uhhh no duh? This isn't the 1950s anymore. Anytime my card is swiped I get a text to my phone saying what I bought and how much it was for. So when you buy two beers for $26 from the Miami Dolphins but you get a text saying you were charged $724 by a man named Nathaniel Collier, eyebrows are going to raise a little bit.

Collier faces charges of grand theft and using a skimming device, police said. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and issued a $10,000 bond.

Rough day for the Florida man. Even if he gets put away for a year though, I bet he doesn't miss one Dolphins win.