Posted on 07/08/2009 10:33:53 AM PDT by Sax
Edited on 07/08/2009 10:58:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A man trashed his hotel room near Orlando International Airport this week after he got a call from someone posing as a front-desk clerk who told him to smash his windows because of a gas leak.
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Where were Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry?
Maybe the phone company can check its billing records to figure out who called the hotel at that time?
I don’t know..what would I do? When you hear it and it sounds for real...HOWEVER, I do hope that I would have sense enough to call the front desk before doing anything. It was an outside call, but then again, how would the guest know it..it just rang up through his room telephone. I’m assuming the guest will not be liable for damages. He better not be.
I don’t know... maybe OPEN the window?
When I was held up by two men with rifles about 30 years ago you know what I did? I COMPLETELY FROZE. I could not move. They asked for my wallet, but because I could not move (I think about it now and I laugh. I was 20 years old) they tore my entire bag off my arm and I probably stood there for three minutes after they left. Although you think you know what you'd do, you really don't until it happens.
Any normal person would just light a match and see if there really was a gas leak.
If I smashed my own mirror all I’d get are a couple bottles of Tylenol and a box of band-aids, maybe some toenail clippers and Bactine.
EXACTLY!
This guy clearly wan’t firing on all cylinders.
Sorry you had to go through that. Your body went into fight, flight, freeze mode, common during a traumatic event. If we act that way, it’s because the brain is doing what it thinks it needs to do to keep us alive. It’s unconscious. You can’t NOT act that way, if you tried, if that’s the way you’re wired.
Or Joe Walsh.
I have a mansion, forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
My cousin was with me and he was at the time about 20 years older than me. Well, he still is! LOL! Anyway, he actually was carring a bag that had a lot of money and personal documents in it and he managed to put it down his pants without them seeing. To this day I don't know how he did it. Maybe it is a gender thing. I don't know.
I always thought you had to tear up the carpet to get to the mirror release lever!
Much research over the past 20 years shows that a person does, in fact, act differently if they're in their teens (you were 20 at the time, so you were still close enough) than if they're 30s or older, during a highly traumatic event. Part of it is just the primitive survival mechanism in our brain, which isn't under our total control and sometimes not under our control at all.
Maybe it is a gender thing. I don't know.
We're all different. I don't think it's so much a gender thing as it is a genetic thing. The things traumatizing to one person may not be traumatizing to another person. For example, what one person may find uncomfortable and even terrorizing could be perceived and experienced as pleasurable by another human being.
That was YOU???
I am SO sorry.
I haven't done that since.
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