> http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/pen/528-539.html 537. (a) Any
> person who obtains any food, fuel, services, or
> accommodations at a hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse,
> lodginghouse, apartment house, bungalow court, motel, marina, marine
> facility, autocamp, ski area, or public or private campground,
> without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or
> manager thereof, or who obtains credit at an hotel, inn, restaurant,
> boardinghouse, lodginghouse, apartment house, bungalow court, motel,
> marina, marine facility, autocamp, or public or private campground by
> the use of any false pretense, or who, after obtaining credit, food,
> fuel, services, or accommodations, at an hotel, inn, restaurant,
> boardinghouse, lodginghouse, apartment house, bungalow court, motel,
> marina, marine facility, autocamp, or public or private campground,
> absconds, or surreptitiously, or by force, menace, or threats,
> removes any part of his or her baggage therefrom with the intent not
> to pay for his or her food or accommodations is guilty of a public
> offense punishable as follows:
> (1) If the value of the credit, food, fuel, services, or
> accommodations is four hundred dollars ($400) or less, by a fine not
> exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the
> county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or both.
> (2) If the value of the credit, food, fuel, services, or
> accommodations is greater than four hundred dollars ($400), by
> imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than one year,
> or in the state prison.
> (b) Any person who uses or attempts to use ski area facilities for
> which payment is required without paying as required, or who resells
> a ski lift ticket to another when the resale is not authorized by
> the proprietor, is guilty of an infraction.
> (c) Evidence that a person left the premises of such an hotel,
> inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, lodginghouse, apartment house,
> bungalow court, motel, marina, marine facility, autocamp, ski area,
> or public or private campground, without paying or offering to pay
> for such food, fuel, services, use of facilities, or accommodation,
> or that the person, without authorization from the proprietor, resold
> his or her ski lift ticket to another person after making use of
> such facilities, shall be prima facie evidence of the following:
> (1) That the person obtained such food, fuel, services, use of
> facilities or accommodations with intent to defraud the proprietor or
> manager.
> (2) That, if, after obtaining the credit, food, fuel, services, or
> accommodations, the person absconded, or surreptitiously, or by
> force, menace, or threats, removed part of his or her baggage
> therefrom, the person did so with the intent not to pay for the
> credit, food, fuel, services, or accommodations.
So it is most definitely another Mr S.P.M then.
I really don't think he's short of a few bob, do you?