Is it OK to steal hotel amenities?

cnn ^ | June 5, 2009 | Lynn Yaeger

[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?

[muggs]

When my son was small we were on vacation and he became ill. We had a long car ride home and I asked the motel manager if I could buy the plastic ice bucket and a washcloth that were in our room. He gave them to me.

[Slings and Arrows]

She could steal my heart any day.

[Hyzenthlay]

Well, Luminol can detect incredibly slight blood stains - I think about as diluted as a shark could smell, but they don’t have to be fresh. So, even if you bleach out the blood stain completely and it presents no health hazard at all, it’s still going to show up if you spray Luminol on it. And, some kinds of bleach or household cleaners and certain foods (potatoes and radishes among other things, IIRC) show up as well... so what they saw likely was everything from some blood on the mattress from ages ago to the results of a maid using a specific kind of bleach to get out a kool-aid stain. In any case, I’m not worried, if I can’t see the blood or whatever any more it’s way past the point where I could possibly catch anything nasty from it.

[Paved Paradise]

While you make valid points, I am fairly confident that it sure wasn’t Kool-Aid, potatoes or radishes on the hotel/motel blankets! Be real. It’s still disgusting to even think about.