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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?

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: enemedia; moralrelativism; pomo; steal; stealing; theft
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To: Constitution Day
Dear Lord. Kill it with fire!

She does look like a witch. Burn her!
41 posted on 06/05/2009 4:12:28 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Morgana
Some of that you have paid for....the soap, shampoo, ect....maybe even the pen and paper, sewing kits, shoe shing kits. Stuff like that they maybe even want you to take because it has their name on it...good advertising. Some stuff is iffy, like the laundry bag, if it is plastic, that is okay but if is not...I would wonder. The towels, sheets pillows...NO that is stealing.

I believe that, at least in good hotels items like the soaps, shampoo and conditioner bottles, lotions, tissues, etc., are replaced between guests whether they appear to have been used or not. So if I’ve used any portion and I’m so inclined, I’ll take them with me. Those little shampoo and conditioner bottles come in handy to pack in my gym bag.

IMO, the pens and stationary are usually pretty crappy whether or not the hotel expects you to take them.

But I agree; towels, sheets, pillows, blankets, etc., that’s theft!
42 posted on 06/05/2009 4:19:54 PM PDT by Caramelgal (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: martin_fierro

43 posted on 06/05/2009 4:20:33 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Free men do not have to ask permission.)
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To: JoeProBono
if you have to ask... no.
44 posted on 06/05/2009 4:24:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: TurtleUp
1. Based on the best selling book of all time, complete this relevant quote: "Thou shalt not _____."

Steal This Book?

Oh, wait... Abbie Hoffman wasn't a best selling author?

-PJ

45 posted on 06/05/2009 4:25:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: JoeProBono

Is it OK to steal hotel amenities?

No.


46 posted on 06/05/2009 4:26:12 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: JoeProBono
It was made of thick ivory linen, embroidered with the words "dry cleaning" in cerulean blue...

I admit to taking the plastic bag with the words "dry cleaning" on it to use for my dirty laundry, but it's only because its a plastic bag, not an embroidered linen antique-looking bag.

If I use the plastic laundry bag that's on the hanger in the closet, but leave the laundry order form behind, is that stealing?

-PJ

47 posted on 06/05/2009 4:30:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: pnut22

My Mom managed a beautiful hotel in New Orleans. She thought it would be a nice luxury if they put special upscale towels in the VIP suite. This suite even had a sauna bath! The towels weren’t out 2 or 3 DAYS before they were stolen. Now they just put out the same linens as all the other rooms have.

You know what is stealing and what is “compliments of the house”.

It goes to show YOU CAN’T BUY CLASS!


48 posted on 06/05/2009 4:34:41 PM PDT by boatbums
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To: OB1kNOb

Are they the newest “Project Runway” contestants?


49 posted on 06/05/2009 4:42:55 PM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: JoeProBono
My grandmother, mother, and I stayed at a hotel in Solvang. My grandmother wanted to buy one of their ashtrays and sent me to the office to ask if she could buy one. The lady behind the counter took an ashtray and wrapped it up for my grandmother. Sometimes honesty has its rewards.
50 posted on 06/05/2009 4:46:29 PM PDT by Excellence (What Madoff is to finance Gore is to global warming.)
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To: nuconvert
Is it ok if I steal your purse?

Don't steal Joe's purse. It makes him tho mad.

51 posted on 06/05/2009 4:50:09 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK
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To: boatbums

Obama is proving you can’t buy class, even when you use OPM. (other people’s money)


52 posted on 06/05/2009 5:10:24 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: JoeProBono
Yes, towels and linen laundry bags are outright theft.
53 posted on 06/05/2009 5:12:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: JoeProBono

If she really wanted an answer she would have asked the hotel management.


54 posted on 06/05/2009 5:46:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: martin_fierro; pandoraou812

What in the name of state fair side shows is that?


55 posted on 06/05/2009 6:00:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

I kinda meant that for Lynn Yaeger.


56 posted on 06/05/2009 6:26:21 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: smokingfrog

Hex head wrenches, to be specific.


57 posted on 06/05/2009 7:55:53 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: JoeProBono
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58 posted on 06/05/2009 7:57:15 PM PDT by floozy22
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To: tired1

A pipe wrench makes a pretty good self-defense weapon too!


59 posted on 06/05/2009 8:28:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: LiberConservative

It must be a REALLY SLOW news day. Also, Lynn Yeager has been around the block a few times. Surely, she has stayed at quite a few hotels, and only now she feels compelled to steal?


60 posted on 06/05/2009 9:41:41 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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