re: #5 William Lewis

oh the joy of being in the hospitality industry …

Last thread, as you may recall, I ranted about calling the police for anything. Yeah well, so much for absolutes.

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Hotel night auditor/ security was easily one of the aggravating jobs I’ve ever had.

I remember one night, we had Dan Quayle’s security detail in our place. Guys were jack-assing around the bar and floors all night. About 10 minutes after final call, my boss discovers someone trying to break into the outdoor pool. I run down there, and we both go in to see what the hell is up.

Now, the pool is surrounded by a privacy fence, so we can only actually *see* what’s going on on the pool side. Which turns out to be 4 under-aged, clearly drunk girls breaking in.

But what we could *hear* was a bunch of drunk, middle-aged men feeding them instructions, on the other side of the fence. Men who get very quiet when the flashlights get turned on.

So we round up the girls, and call the police. They arrive, and suddenly, here comes Dan Quayle’s security detail, making a big show about “Hey fellow LEOs! What the heck is going on here! We have no idea!” The girls are visibly horrified, and literally no one involved has any misconceptions about what was going on.

But you know- smallish city cops, and feds glad-handing them left and right, and a couple of local girls who got caught up in circles the never should have ventured into…

The only upside was, ultimately, the girls got off because *absolutely no one* wanted a record of this crap floating around.