Restaurant Ghosts

If the premises are haunted, does that mean you can back out of your lease? That's the earth shattering question under debate in Orlando Florida.

According to the Associated Press:

The owners of a Japanese restaurant who claim their newly renovated building is haunted are being sued by their landlord for refusing to move in.

An offer to hold an exorcism was refused, according to the 2.6 million dollar lawsuit filed by the owners of the Church Street Station entertainment complex last month in Orange County Circuit Court.

Now here's what confuses me, if this is such a prime location, how come there aren't lots of folks lining up to rent the premises? Maybe there isn't a sucker born every minute.

The lawsuit also asks a judge to decide whether the building is haunted and, if so, whether the ghosts would interfere with the restaurant's business.

That's an easy one! It ain't haunted. Trust me on this. I would love to have seen the look on the judge's face when he first heard about this one.

The defendent's attorney says subcontractors gave several documented reports of having seen ghosts or apparitions in the restaurant at night. The attorney also says the defendent's religious beliefs require him to "avoid encountering or having any association with spirits or demons."

Oh well, that settles it then, EYE WITNESSES, wow. I can't even begin to imagine that someone could be DUMB enough to use this as a phoney excuse to get out of a lease. The only thing I can assume is that this guy really thinks the place is haunted and he's going to endanger his life or his soul by moving in.

How can the court do anything but enforce the lease? I wonder if I can claim that my office is haunted so I have to work from home? It's not the $3.19 a gallon gas, it's the ghosts.