A tourist from Hong Kong was charged $1,251 for a beer at a bar in Rome, Italy.

Reuters reports that an unscrupulous person invited the tourist to the bar, and served him a beer. He then said it would cost him $1,251. The tourist negotiated it down to about half that amount, but the bar owner on Via Veneto street charged him the full amount anyway.

The man says, "When the bill arrived, I thought it was safer to pay it. I was scared something could happen to me if I didn't."

The tourist tried to report the fraud to police, but no one spoke English at the department.