Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
What about her clothes? or were those too out of reach? The bedspread? pillows?
Whilst we're about it - where is the OP since this sensational thread saw the light of day?
Does it sound reasonable if you have had someone come into your room whilst you are disporting yourself naked - and the seems reasonable to me - someone enters your room telephone in camera mode in hand and instead of ordering him out (most people would have fled I suspect) you then come on Flyertalk to ask what best to do about it? I'd know exactly what to do and it would not be to come on the internet to discuss what to do. If it was a genuine error and the person had left tout de suite, I'd warn the Front Desk and that would be that. What is alleged here is much more serious, and I would have had the police come to this unnamed hotel in this unnamed city.
People seek advice or share experiences in different ways and for different reasons. That the OP did here shouldn’t be a surprise. That’s FlyerTalk since the beginning.
The OP was advised that it may not be wise to say too much more here too, as it can complicate the legal picture if needing to sue the other parties said to be involved in the situation. For better or for worse, life includes the sensational.
About the clothes, towels, sheets, and bedspread use, I think watching too much Hollywood, Bollywood or whatever may be the European equivalents gives people ideas that are better suited for the TV and device screens and theaters than real life. A person who feels physically vulnerable during an intrusion should be preparing to defend themselves with firm objects that don’t minimize PSI force when landing on the body of a potential assailant. Clothes/towels and sheets/bedspread — the latter of which may take more time to pull off and use than it’s worth — don’t qualify for that (since they blunt blunt force), even as at times they may be used for some limited defensive purposes. Keeping the hands busy with a towel or trying to put on an underwear would be the last thing I’d be doing if I was concerned an assault against me or another was possible. And the sheet/bedspread idea is the worst of the lot. It restricts mobility, and mobility is essential in a fight or flee situation.
I don’t know in which city this incident happened, but it’s not unusual everywhere for the police to have more urgent things to do than rush to a situation where they don’t perceive an imminent intervention is required to protect a person from bodily harm and when no physical harm is reported to have taken place or been attempted.
“You mean the hotel messed up and checked someone else into the same room as you while you were in the room and the unwitting intruder left without harming or threatening you? Talk to the hotel.” — Isn’t that the kind of thing that could be said if calling 911 or 112 or whatever emergency services line?