COVID POLICE STATE CRAZINESS: Aurora restaurant FINED $880 for allowing a customer to use the bathroom
Chuck’s Roadhouse Bar and Grill in Aurora, Ont. was once a bustling neighbourhood restaurant.
But all that changed once the Wuhan virus lockdowns began — forcing many businesses to close, while others, like Chuck’s, were only permitted to operate at a reduced capacity.
Although they’ve managed to survive so far, George Aivalis, Chuck’s general manager, knows that he’s on borrowed time.
Earlier this month, when York Region was still in the Red Zone and restaurants were still permitted to host up to ten patrons indoors, George received a visit from bylaw enforcement to ensure his restaurant was complying with the health orders.
Sure enough, the 130-seat eatery was following the rules by limiting capacity to only ten customers.
But here’s the crazy part: while bylaw was inspecting the restaurant, a patron dining outdoors on the patio entered to use the washroom — inadvertently pushing the restaurant’s indoor headcount to eleven!
Obviously, the bylaw officer wasn’t counting himself. Otherwise, he would have counted twelve people.
In any event, that’s when the COVID enforcer sprung into action and came down on George with an $880 fine! Seemingly, it’s far deadlier to have eleven rather than ten customers inside a restaurant that can hold 130.
How bloody petty can a bylaw officer get?
The whole thing was caught on the store’s security camera. You can see it right here:
George is now joining our growing list of “Fight the Fines” cases. It’s where we crowdfund a lawyer to help people who received one of these fines fight it in court.
The restaurant industry has been hit especially hard during these lockdowns. Layoffs, spoiled inventory, and ongoing bills that can’t be recouped with food sales are just a fraction of the issues they’re facing. A fine like this is only rubbing salt in an already gaping wound.
We’re hoping you can help us help George fight this ticket. The last thing he needs is to spend any more time and money trying to get out of his ludicrous fine.
If you’d like to contribute to our legal efforts to defend George and fight for Canadian civil liberties in the process, please donate at www.FightTheFines.com.
Yours truly,
David Menzies
P.S. Our Chief Reporter Sheila Gunn Reid is back on the case in Winkler, Manitoba, where singing outdoors is STILL illegal. This time, we’re helping the Friesen, Harder and Unger families fight their fines for committing the crime of socially distant Christian hymn singing. You can watch her video right here. And as always, if you want to pitch in to help us crowdfund the legal fees to fight those fines, please click here or go to