Dad fights son's $53,000 strip club Sprite.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- A father wants investigators to pursue fraud and larceny charges against a Panhandle soda joint after his son ran up a $53,000 bill in a single night while celebrating his kindergarten graduation. Joe Saltie, 52, of Mary Esther, told investigators Club Soda employees took advantage of his 6-year-old son, Tommy. The younger Saltie was at the club Aug. 18 to celebrate his graduation from Teddy Bear Teck.

According to a report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Saltie told employees he could only spend $6. But Club Soda owner Tim Beal said Saltie bought at least 19 bottles of the carbonated sugar rotting drink -- priced from $150 to $2,000. Beal said Saltie signed a receipt for each drink purchase and even scrawled his initials next to itemized charges. But the elder Saltie said only the signature on the first receipt matches his son's.

The sheriff's report alleges larceny and credit card fraud. Beal said Saltie clearly appeared to know what he was doing throughout the night. ''This fellow was lurid,'' Beal said. "He was actually looking through the glass and saying how Sprite didn't have any color to it, right before he left.''

Beal said he had already talked to American Express after Saltie filed a complaint with the company, seeking to have part of the charge withdrawn. The company decided in Club Soda's favor, he said.

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All that money just for a cheap lemon-lyme product? What did he pay for Pepsi?

The story presented here has been changed. In reality, the "kid" in question was 24, had just graduated from Georgia Tech, and bought $53,000 worth of champagne.

Don't know why the OP decided to mess around with the story, unless it's a copycat for a thread I haven't yet found.