George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
After he was fired from his job, he built a pirate-themed escape room.
Customers were thrown into a locked room and told that they were being held until someone paid the ransom.
“This is lame,” said a customer. “Where’s the puzzles? Let us out!”
Only when George got the money were they told they’d won, and were released.
Pretty soon, George’s escape room got a reputation as a scam.
But before the cops could arrest him, George escaped, and had gotten another pirate job, and was back at sea.