[madprof98]

I just cannot imagine anyone thinking doing things like this is okay. Nor can I imagine that they thought there would be no consequences.

Why not? This is EXACTLY what we teach now as our official American ideology. Anything you want to do is OK so long as it makes you feel good. And any so-called "consequences" are just racist, sexist, homophobic, patriarchal oppression.

[DaveA37]

“The students who did this should be forced to pay for all of those costs, be expelled from the school, and have criminal charges filed against them.”.........

We have to remember, these are our future leaders. Actually, they were conducting a class of the “destruction of America” designed and authored by odumbo himself.

[DaveA37]

A perfect opportunity for the judge to assign them to “community service” cleaning and repairing all the damage. Then, make them pay for all the materials and related costs, not to mention expelling them from college.

I would NEVER allow another event like that to happen in my establishment without having the renters pay for a huge insurance policy prior to any occupancy.

[leapfrog0202]

madprof98: Why not? This is EXACTLY what we teach now as our official American ideology. Anything you want to do is OK so long as it makes you feel good. And any so-called “consequences” are just racist, sexist, homophobic, patriarchal oppression.

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True. I just have difficulty remembering that. Not sure why....

TimberRattler: Should be easy to find out who is personally responsible... who booked the rooms, and whose credit card was used to do it?

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You’d think so, but I would bet the national organizations of these frats & sororities will hold their local chapters’ feet to the fire as far as payment goes, too.

goldstategop: In this case, the damage goes well beyond have to renovate the place. It means they have to be closed, lay off staff that work and they loose bookings that bring in revenue. I’d double or even triple the loss estimate. The hotel has insurance but it won’t cover everything.

And if the hotel has to deny young people rental privileges, those young people will have to thank young punks who should have known better. Its a sad situation all around and no one really wins.

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You’re correct about the costs that go above and beyond just the renovating. One of the hotels I inspected regularly was renovated to the tune of $2.5 million & then there was a fire on the 3rd of 4 floors. The smoke & water damage caused a lot of damage throughout the hotel & the fire inspector ended up closing the entire thing down.

The owner had good insurance that also paid his employees while renovations were going on & paid him for loss of revenue, but he still had massive deductibles & all the “little things” you don’t think about. Among other things, he had to hire security to make sure no one tried to steal anything and to watch that vagrants didn’t try to break a window to sleep in an empty room at night, utilities & property taxes with no revenue coming in & landscaping etc. had to be done to keep up appearances. It hurt him badly even with excellent insurance.

Such a shame. I hate reading stories like this. The people that did this are no better than the thugs & looters in Ferguson. Hurting innocent peoples’ businesses for no reason.