The "Show photo ID when you check in" thing is absurd as well. I was told that this was "For your security" once again over the weekend. They couldn't tell me what security benefit this provided, only that it was "for my security." Every time I've been asked this I've refused and every time they have backed down. That's remarkably effective "security" if you ask me!

How about the "open your trunk" thing being done at some NYC hotels. That's right, they hire some doofus to stand there and look into the trunk of every vehicle that drives in. "Yup -- looks like a suitcase to me..." They must pay an awful lot to these guards because not even I could spot the difference between a clothing-laden suitcase and a bomb-laden one simply by looking. What talent!