Posted on 08/15/2015 11:29:42 AM PDT by bornred
Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles’s mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen.
Her 19-year-old son told her that his Airbnb host in Madrid had locked him in the fourth-floor apartment where he was supposed to be staying and removed the key. The host was still there, he said, rattling knives around in the kitchen drawer and pressing him to submit to a sexual act. He begged his mother for help.
When she called Airbnb, its employees would not give her the address and would not call the police. Instead, they gave her a number for the Madrid police and told her to ask the police to call the company for the address. But the number led to a recording in Spanish that kept disconnecting her, she said, and when she repeatedly called back her Airbnb contact, the calls went straight to voice mail.
According to her son, Jacob Lopez, he was sexually assaulted that night. Eventually, he persuaded his host to free him. He returned home to Massachusetts and is in trauma therapy.
His host, who was born male but is living as a woman, denied Mr. Lopez’s accusations. She denied threatening him and said that the sex act was consensual and that he is transphobic. If she is right, filing a false police report and telling the story publicly would be an unlikely way to bury a regrettable experience.
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So, I’m locked in an apartment and my host is rattling knives around . . . and my first reaction is to text my mom?
So who’s the bad guy? airbnb or one of the Choppadick crowd? or the fact that some humans choose to do wrong to others?
WTF is Airbn-something or other?
Must be me gettin older again. d;^)
Mom should have told him to find something in the room to clobber the tranny when he came through the door.
>>So, I’m locked in an apartment and my host is rattling knives around . . . and my first reaction is to text my mom?
Most Millennials who aren’t in uniform are basically Pajama Boy. Thanks to Obama, an increasing number in uniform are Pajama Boy. Improvising a weapon is “too butch” for these sensitive flowers.
Mammas don’t let your babies grow to be pajama boys.
Sort of like Uber for houses, personally I say RUN!!
Don’t they have a “review” system for their properties?
So, I’m locked in an apartment and my host is rattling knives around . . . and my first reaction is to text my mom?
LOL
My TKD teacher tells me whenever, if ever, I really get into a “real” fight, that I should do the following:
1. See if you can run away
2. See what you can pick up as a strike weapon
3. Aim for neck or nuts and f*&k being fair.
This is a good lesson to learn the local phone numbers for emergencies...
911 in the US
999 in the UK
and, I just looked it up
112 in Spain...
If your cell phone is non-local, how to dial these numbers is also a good thing to know.
Beats texting mummy thousands of miles away...
You nailed it.
“transphobic?”
The dictionary is growing so fast…….
Why wouldn't he or his mother make sure that emergency numbers for police, U.S. embassy, etc. were programmed into his phone before he left on his trip. Guess that makes too much sense.
Sounds to me like AIRBNB Madrid might have a bit of an illegal side business going on there. You just never know.
Just kill the tranny and move on. Why make a big deal of it?
2. See what you can pick up as a strike weapon
3. Aim for neck or nuts and f*&k being fair.
Do trannies still have nuts?
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