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A hotel, a fire alarm and £1000.....

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Crusytoenail · 29/09/2019 10:40

What do you make of this appearing in the Mirror?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-fined-1000-after-naked-20319084

I work nights in a hotel and a surprising number of people lock themselves out of their room wearing very little or nothing at all doing this after a skin full. None of them have ever pulled the fire alarm though!

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Crusytoenail · 29/09/2019 10:42

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-fined-1000-after-naked-20319084

My phone is crap, second attempt at clicky link, apologies if this one doesn't work either!

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Pinkyyy · 29/09/2019 10:46

You joined just to post this? I'm guessing nobody is reading and you're getting desperate.

Crusytoenail · 29/09/2019 10:47

No, long time member who can use a name change facility.

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MeggyMeg · 29/09/2019 10:50

Why do people think we want to know nor care about this stuff? Surely you would just take it up with the hotel? Confused

Pinkyyy · 29/09/2019 10:52

Why does this post need a name change?

SuzieBishop · 29/09/2019 10:53

DH locked himself out of our hotel room after a Christmas party. He was so drunk he thought he was at home so went out of the room to go to where he thought the toilet was. And he was naked 🙈

Crusytoenail · 29/09/2019 10:59

I name change fairly regularly, happens to be the first post for a while under this particular one. Report to mumsnet if you think it's anything else, they'll be able to see how long I've been a member for.

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Pinkyyy · 29/09/2019 11:01

Okay perhaps I was wrong, my apologies.

I just hate when media outlets join to promote their stories and this appeared like one of those times. My bad.

BiggerBoat1 · 29/09/2019 11:06

I hope his date paid the fine. She was the one who behaved like an idiot.

TheDragonFromDreams · 29/09/2019 11:07

Haven’t clicked the link but my Uncle locked himself out of his hotel room naked and everything was glass...

He had to sheepishly go reception! Grin

Crusytoenail · 29/09/2019 11:09

No problem @Pinkyyy, I get how it could have looked like that.
It's genuine interest though, like I said I do nights in a hotel and have seen quite a few people go out the wrong door (thank God for laundry cupboards on ever floor to cover naked wanderers!) But none of them have ever pulled the fire alarm. Usually woken surrounding rooms banging on doors or I've clocked them on hallway CCTV.

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Oblomov19 · 29/09/2019 11:27

Cost him a lot all-in-all then, didn't it? Hmm

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 29/09/2019 11:53

Wouldn't pulling the fire alarm bring more people out into the corridor? wouldn't that be much, much worse?

Soola · 29/09/2019 11:57

Second date, pissed up in a cheap hotel room.

How terribly romantic.

Where was the first date? In a bus stop?

Soola · 29/09/2019 11:58

Op I am eternally grateful for your posting about this, otherwise I would have never have seen this.... 😂

www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/cockfishing-disturbing-new-dating-trend-20312742

A hotel, a fire alarm and £1000.....
Shakennotshook · 29/09/2019 12:02

Why would you go to the papers with this?!

RubbingHimSourly · 29/09/2019 12:09

My oh did this once. He had to go down to the reception, on the way he'd fashioned some sort of nappy using blue roll in the bars toilet so his giblets would be covered up. I was woken up by two hotel staff on their knees with laughter and dp stood there like baby Cha Cha from Ally McBeal. Grin

CampingItUp · 29/09/2019 12:16

I hope the publicity around this will help prevent anyone else behaving so stupidly.

Disturbing several hundred other guests, hotel fire alarms go straight through to the emergency services....

Idiots need to be held accountable for idiocy when it affects others.

Enko · 29/09/2019 12:28

I think the fine was fair to be honest. Her hitting the firealarm was stupid and inconvenienced a lot of people. She didnt know what to do so hit the firealarm? How about going down to the reception fewer would see her naked that way than when evacuating a entire hotel in the middle of the night.

He " slapped " the computer? AKA he was aggressive towards staff who his date had kept awake in the middle of the night and who due to her behaviour had a day of dealing with lots of complaints about the fake fire alarm..

All because she didn't want someone to see her naked?

Soola · 29/09/2019 12:56

@Shakennotshook Why would you go to the papers with this?

Two reasons probably. To let the ex/father of her children know that she’s out ‘shagging’ in the mistaken belief he will be jealous.

Secondly, so that people will feel sorry for them and send them money, hopefully more than the grand they’ve been charged with.

Unfortunately, unsavoury people love the limelight.

Shakennotshook · 29/09/2019 17:47

Bizarre!

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