Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is it OK to steal hotel amenities?
cnn ^ | June 5, 2009 | Lynn Yaeger

Posted on 06/05/2009 3:14:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono

I stole a laundry bag from the Alvear Palace Hotel in Buenos Aires. It was made of thick ivory linen, embroidered with the words "dry cleaning" in cerulean blue, and looked like something that I could have found at an antique textiles show. But that wasn't the case. I'm usually pretty scrupulous about purloined souvenirs. Of course, I help myself to soap and shampoo, sewing kits, even those black sponges meant to spruce up your shoes -- oh, and ballpoint pens and darling little notepads. But the laundry bag was my first sojourn into the land of, what shall we call it ... outright theft?

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: enemedia; moralrelativism; pomo; steal; stealing; theft
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

1 posted on 06/05/2009 3:14:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

CNN- quality news


2 posted on 06/05/2009 3:15:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

Take the mattress too....dare you....


3 posted on 06/05/2009 3:15:43 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono
Here, let me shorten the title just a bit and maybe it will help answer the question.

Is it OK to steal?

4 posted on 06/05/2009 3:15:56 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

It is theft, yes. Even though they probably expect you to take it. If it’s not yours and its not shampoo or soap, it’s stealing.


5 posted on 06/05/2009 3:17:34 PM PDT by Tublecane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

No problem at all, mind if I spend the night at your place?


6 posted on 06/05/2009 3:18:02 PM PDT by Jolla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

I visited Hiroshima in last year of high school. You couldn’t fine a t-shirt in any store there about Hiroshima. The hotel I stayed at had three-quarter sized comfort robes with the hotel name and “Hiroshima” printed on it. I went to the reception desk and asked to buy it. They didn’t know what to do. Finally they checked on what they paid for it and charged me that. Are we talking about that sort of thing or the shampoo/conditioner/lotion stuff they lay out?


7 posted on 06/05/2009 3:18:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono
Literary trivia quiz:

1. Based on the best selling book of all time, complete this relevant quote: "Thou shalt not _____."

[Hint - consider from Exodus 20:15]

What was your question?

8 posted on 06/05/2009 3:18:57 PM PDT by TurtleUp (So this is how liberty dies - to thunderous applause!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Brad's Gramma

Did you ever see that piece on Dateline where they went into the hotels/motels and sprayed the Luminol (which detects blood splatter)on the mattresses and comforters. So gross. You don’t want to know.


9 posted on 06/05/2009 3:19:11 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Jeff Head
No, theft is theft. In Obama's Muslim sharia law world, you'd lose your hands for that.

One of the attorneys I worked with in Denver stole a wine glass from every elegant restaurant at which he dined. He bragged about it and I (and my co-workers) always thought of him as a thief thereafter. You really knew the answer to this one before you asked the question.

10 posted on 06/05/2009 3:19:16 PM PDT by MamaDearest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono
I was on a tour of CNN headquarters and while wandering through an unused studio I found a really cool video camera, a couple teleprompters and a big screen monitor. Was it OK to take them? Normally I just wander off with a few pens and notepads, maybe a case of copy paper or an occasional laser printer, but this was the first time I took anything that might be considered stealing.
11 posted on 06/05/2009 3:19:22 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

Oh ... good ... grief. I always knew CNN were a bunch of liars. Now I see they’re a bunch of thieves, too.


12 posted on 06/05/2009 3:20:38 PM PDT by LiberConservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
Of course the guy knows...he admist as much himself, that he has taken to "theft".

He wants society...or as many of the people in society as he can...to rationalize it for him by saying it is ok. Well, it is not ok and the guy is nothing more than a petty criminal.

13 posted on 06/05/2009 3:21:17 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Jolla

That’s good.


14 posted on 06/05/2009 3:21:40 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Jeff Head
Is it OK to steal

Only if you are the govt.

15 posted on 06/05/2009 3:22:09 PM PDT by libh8er
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

GUILTY.

GUILTY.

G U I L T Y!


16 posted on 06/05/2009 3:22:17 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
...if he keeps at it, maybe he can get a law degree, work for ACORN, then learn to speak real well into a teleprompter and step up to the really big league in thievery...like Obama.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

17 posted on 06/05/2009 3:22:48 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

Only CNN would dare to suggest that stealing from a Hotel is OK.

It is a dirty Capitalist business for profit, right? Return the “spoils to their rightful ownder.

Many clients staying a deluxe hotels have been shocked and embarassed to find the cost of stolen bathrobes, towels, bathmats, etc, added to their final bill before checkout.


18 posted on 06/05/2009 3:23:18 PM PDT by Cincinna (TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libh8er
See my post 17.

They may do it at will...but it is not ok, and one day, there will be a reckoning and an accounting, either on this earth or before a heavenly tribunal.

19 posted on 06/05/2009 3:23:58 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: JoeProBono

cnn.com
updated 9:53 a.m. EDT, Fri June 5, 2009

LOL. Fox & Friends twittered this question at 6am this morning.

CNN is getting lamer.


20 posted on 06/05/2009 3:24:16 PM PDT by callisto (It's the three T's: Too Many Taxes, Trillions in Debt, and Transparency)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson