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Surfside hotel guests find swastikas etched on baby crib’s mattress
WSVN ^ | January 28, 2019 | Rebecca Vargas

Posted on 01/30/2019 1:36:04 PM PST by yesthatjallen

A family staying at a Surfside hotel was left stunned after finding two swastikas drawn on the mattress of the baby’s crib they requested.

Zipora Waltner and her family were staying at the Grand Beach Hotel along the 9400 block of Collins Avenue when they made the disturbing discovery.

“We requested a crib brought up to our room for my baby, and on the mattress there were two symbols, swastika symbols, drawn on the mattress,” said Waltner. “I was certain it was a swastika and still did a double take.”

Waltner, an Orthodox Jewish mother of four visiting from New York, and her husband had to explain to her children why the furniture brought in for their youngest sibling was unacceptable and appalling, especially on a weekend that included Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday.

“It was horrific. It was frightening to see,” she said.

Waltner said hotel staff were sympathetic about their complaint over the mattress.

“It’s also very hurtful because it relates to my family very deeply,” she said.

The family was eventually moved to another Grand Beach Hotel location in Miami Beach.

Speaking with 7News over the phone, hotel management declined to comment on the incident.

But Surfside Vice Mayor Daniel Gielchinsky said the town has zero tolerance for such displays of intolerance.

“Here in Surfside, we do not tolerate hatred or anti-Semitism in any form, and we take it very seriously,” he said.


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KEYWORDS: antisemitism; hoax; hoaxdollars; localnews; nazi; suingforhoax; swastika
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If they're old it will be difficult to prove who did it.

If they're fresh it might be easier to find the culprit.


1 posted on 01/30/2019 1:36:04 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Did they screw up the left one so they did it again


2 posted on 01/30/2019 1:38:19 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen

or little Hitler slept here ?


3 posted on 01/30/2019 1:39:07 PM PST by butlerweave
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Yes, some poorly drawn backwards anonymous crap ought to be worth a few million dollars.

Total victims them, yep.


4 posted on 01/30/2019 1:40:15 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: yesthatjallen
Who Cares???????
5 posted on 01/30/2019 1:41:11 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: butlerweave
Did they screw up the left one so they did it again

The right one is screwed up, too: The branches should come out clockwise.

6 posted on 01/30/2019 1:41:31 PM PST by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: yesthatjallen

The images appear to be reversed, one less dark than the other, wonder if the cover was folded at some point with a single image that bled.

I remember in my 4th grade class a male kid would often draw those on his notebook pages.

National socialism and anti-semitism are certainly on the rise, and perfectly acceptable among most leftists, because Trump.


7 posted on 01/30/2019 1:41:47 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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The poor baby will be scared for life and it will probably take years for the parents to recover.


8 posted on 01/30/2019 1:44:22 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: butlerweave

another hoax.


9 posted on 01/30/2019 1:47:51 PM PST by euram
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To: yesthatjallen

One of those stories that makes me go ‘why the heck am I reading about this?’ Then I recall that it’s 2019 and we have the 24 hour news cycle and social media. Yay.

Freegards


10 posted on 01/30/2019 1:48:02 PM PST by Ransomed
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Maybe the hotel is run by Hindus and they are wishing infants good luck


11 posted on 01/30/2019 1:48:26 PM PST by PGR88
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Boys in my elementary school classes practiced drawing these. Not because of the ideology, but because their fathers were WWII vets and it was a symbol from the times. They weren’t Nazi’s or anti-Semetic, just silly boys playing with toy soldiers.


12 posted on 01/30/2019 1:49:18 PM PST by Help!
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Well the one on the right is a good luck symbol from Asia and the US aboriginals, dunno the one on the left - may or may not be one. Then too, perhaps a lawsuit to get a free room stay???


13 posted on 01/30/2019 1:49:31 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Let me guess, Mohammed from Room Service dropped it off.

Just a mix up, it was intended for the Guests attending the Trump Rally downtown.

The Cribs with the Nooses and MAGA drawings will be used at the 2020 RNC Convention for all the Never Trumpers Kids..


14 posted on 01/30/2019 1:50:35 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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They look like they may have been drawn by a kid.
I fail to see the point of a real Nazi making threats this way.

15 posted on 01/30/2019 1:53:27 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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etch
Dictionary result for etch

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verb

verb: etch; 3rd person present: etches; past tense: etched; past participle: etched; gerund or present participle: etching

1.

engrave (metal, glass, or stone) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.


16 posted on 01/30/2019 1:55:58 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: euram
Having worked hotel management, I know when a guest requests a crib or extra bed the task of delivering the bed is assigned to either housekeeping or the bellman.

A call or direction is given, 'The guest in room 101 requests a crib'. There's generally no name attached to the request.

Unless they were there for a long time and no one noticed it's unlikely housekeeping or the bellman knew the person the crib would be delivered to. To them it would have been a random room.

17 posted on 01/30/2019 1:57:27 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Nazis know how to draw swastikas. When they’re drawn improperly, it’s always a hoax.


18 posted on 01/30/2019 1:59:53 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Help!
Boys in my elementary school classes practiced drawing these.

From the picture it looks like a kid did it. I have three etched on my dining room table from one of my boys as they were doing homework. They have the telltale signs of which one they started and goofed up and which one they finished with because the better one looks practiced.

Big deal, right?

19 posted on 01/30/2019 2:03:51 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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I found one of those muslin prayer beads thingy in a motel one time. Could not get it out to the trash fast enough.


20 posted on 01/30/2019 2:05:07 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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