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Dublin pub slams customer for ‘wasting electricity’ on premises

The owner of Oscar’s Café Bar in Smithfield has slammed a customer who used the premises to charge his devices with an extension lead.

Ronan Flood spoke to Newstalk about the incident which occurred on Tuesday afternoon. Oscar’s Café Bar had posted about the encounter on Facebook, which immediately sparked debate about correct etiquette in café settings.

He first noticed that the customer had brought in an extension lead, which had three devices plugged into it, when he left his table to use the bathroom. Ronan eventually asked the customer to unplug the devices, branding the behaviour “an excessive use of electricity.”

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