Put It On The Dad Tab

Who picks up a son's tab? The father, of course.

So, even as Florida dad Joe Salter argues that he told his son not to spend more than $600 so he couldn't possibly have put $53,000 of strip club charges onto the father's Amex card, he still is making plans to take care of it.

And Salter has nothing on Mr. Roberts, daddy Oral, who has been called home to Tulsa to clean up the $52.5 million debt (and some other personal scandals and bad PR) created by his son and step-daughter, Richard and Lindsay, as prez and first lady of the eponymous U.

It is possible, of course, that even as the dad's are picking up the tab, they might try and lay it down on someone else. Salter already appealed the charges — which the card company found legitimate. Roberts is famous for — among other spectacles — announcing to his faithful that they needed to send $8 million to him or God was calling him home (to heaven, not Tulsa ...and the faithful sent $9 million).

** Anyway, Thing 1's $30 halloween costume bill doesn't seem quite so excessive now. **