If you are ever arrested in Kleberg County, Texas, make sure you smile for your mugshot, because once you’re released, you might earn free tacos! This unusual deal comes courtesy of “El Colombiano Parrilla Grill“ in the South Texas Kleberg County seat of Kingsville.
If you are thinking, “surely there must be a catch?”
-Yes, there are two: In exchange for your free tacos, you must agree to allow El Colombiano to post your smiling mugshot on their Facebook page - as well as a photo of you enjoying your free tacos!
And, if you are wondering whether anyone would actually take them up on this offer, yes - many do:
Now - a word about the rules you MUST follow to get your free tacos. Be sure to follow them - because El Colombiano is pretty serious about enforcing them!
First, you have seven days from the time your mugshot is taken to claim your free tacos (presumably this ensures only those arrested for - and made bail for - relatively minor offenses qualify, to spare the restaurant from posting photos of a smiling murder suspect, for example, enjoying free tacos on Facebook).
Second, you must be visibly smiling in your mugshot, preferably “with teeth visible.”
Third, you must email or text them your smiling mugshot (they don’t search the jail website each day looking for potential customers).
Full rules follow below:
For those of you thinking the photo we posted above of the woman who allowed her smiling mugshot above to be posted on Facebook in exchange for those free tacos was a “one-off,” well, that’s not the case:
And, if you are wondering how this “smiling mugshot/free tacos” promotion plays with law enforcement officers in Kleberg County, I have your answer below: a photo of what is likely the entire night patrol shift of the Kleberg County Sheriff’s Department eating dinner at El Colombiano!
(Which gets five-star reviews on both Yelp & Tripadvisor by the way):
One last thing: (a plea on my part). As someone who was born and raised in Kingsville, Texas, please don’t commit a crime there just to score free tacos!
Would you allow a smiling mugshot of you to be posted on Facebook in exchange for free tacos?
Share your opinion in the comments on this article!
Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
