Originally Posted by
GUWonder
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.
This. Hollywood lets the damsel shield herself, reality often does not. And seconded about the sheets--worse than useless. I've walked around hotel rooms naked a decent number of times, typically in areas devoid of cover-up materials. (You walk in open spaces--and open spaces don't have much in the way of convenient modesty-protectors.)
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?
Yup, 911 if he refuses to leave, but after the fact there's no imminent hazard.
Originally Posted by
anonymousquestioner
I have subsequently reported this incident to the police, and they are now declining to investigate on the basis that the hotel gave implicit consent for the man to enter my private space (against my consent— I repeatedly asked him to leave) and to film me naked (also without my consent) when they gave him an access card and directed him to enter my room. They will only investigate if the intimate footage (non-consensual pornography) is found to have been disseminated, which could have already occurred or may occur at any time in the future. So that's great. Thanks </Major Global Hotel Brand/>.
My thought, also--this is a civil issue between you and the hotel. At present no crime has been committed.