Hilarious Endeavour Tavern Lancelin video of men ‘stealing' bar mats goes viral
In a hilarious video that has gone viral, the Endeavour Tavern in Lancelin tells the story of how one night a bunch of rogues sneakily went about gathering up all the bar mats they could get their hands on.
It happened on Friday night when a group of friends sauntered into the pub and ordered several pints.
They then went about collecting the bar mats from under the nose of staff.
The comical video, stitched together from CCTV footage, starts with a man wearing a red beanie turning his back to the bar before reaching behind and pinching a Single Fin bar mat.
Another man then grabs a bar mat and both are stuffed into a brown paper shopping bag.
As the video continues, a man in a black beanie joins in the fun before a punter in a yellow cap gets brave enough to stealthily take a premiership flag by the local football team off a wall.
Throughout, it seems staff didn't notice the increasingly bare look of the tavern's bar and walls.
The video, which has had more than 10 million views, ends with the group running out of the tavern with their loot, throwing their hands in the air in celebration.
A caption with the video asks for the 'slippery little legends' to return the bar mats.
'🚨 MISSING: 9 Bar mats, last seen living their best lives at the Endeavour Tavern on Friday Night🕵️♂️
'If you've seen these slippery little legends — or if they've found a new home in your man cave — we'd love to see them returned. No questions asked … okay, maybe just one question: Why?? 😂
'Let's reunite them with their beer-loving family. 🍻
'📸 DM us anonymously (or bring them back and get a cheeky thank-you pint 😉)'
Tavern owner Paul Ferguson said on Tuesday that he was pleased to report that the mats were being returned.
He said the light-hearted video went up on Monday and the men involved, from Perth, got back to the tavern within the hour.
'They were just up for a Friday night, on the booze, a bit of fun, a bit of a dare I think,' he said.
'They're going to return the mats and come up and we'll have a chat and I'll buy them a beer.'
Mr Ferguson said apart from the mats, which were all Gage Roads as the 'thieves' were fans of the brand, he was also looking forward to the return of a premiership flag won by the local football team.
It sat pride of place on one of walls at Endeavour Tavern, which proudly boasts on its website that it has 'WA's best beer garden'.
'We don't win the flag that often, so they're pretty rare. We're pretty privileged to get one,' he said.
Mr Ferguson said they didn't cotton on to the missing bar mats and the group's antics until the next morning.
'We had had a big function on that Saturday night, so we started setting up on Friday night, that's why we didn't see them missing,' he said.
'When we went to put them out on Saturday morning, we noticed quite a few missing.
'So that's when we thought we'd better check the cameras — and we had a good laugh over it.'
We can all drink to that!
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