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Aloha_Shooter
12-09-2019, 17:15
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/luxury-hotel-mattresses-stolen

WTH ... stealing mattresses? This just boggles my mind. Anyone wanting to steal a mattress pretty much has to have planned on it in the first place and then to think the hotel isn't going to know who short-mattressed the bed is just insane. I have loved the mattresses on the beds when I've been in a five star hotel but this is just nuts ...
ray1970
12-09-2019, 17:24
Must be some sort of pervert thing. The thought of what other people have done on a hotel mattress just creeps me out. No way I?d steal one.
Irving
12-09-2019, 17:29
They know exactly how many hotels were surveyed, but they don't post how many have had mattresses stolen; just that it's more than you would think. That tells me that this is a non-story. 5 mattresses over a five year period would surprise me. This can't be all that common because it's a crime that doesn't make sense at all. The cost of a single night's stay in a 5-star hotel is probably a good way to the cost of a decent mattress, especially a used one.
hatidua
12-09-2019, 17:38
I'm having a difficult time believing the story to be honest. Through luck and coincidence I've managed to stay at some pretty nice places around the globe and when you get into a certain level of hotel, you aren't rubbing shoulders with the "let's steal the mattress" crowd. People staying in 5* hotels probably have a relatively nice mattress at home already.

Pro-tip: good luck lifting a Hastens mattress with less than four strong guys under 40, it's not gonna happen.
spqrzilla
12-09-2019, 17:52
"Stolen" to hide dead hooker DNA
Irving
12-09-2019, 17:53
I think that more mattresses have been stolen than journalists killed at luxury hotels. But just barely.
beast556
12-09-2019, 18:33
I did maintenance for a five star hotel for years and never once did some one steal the mattress. One time some one stole the bose surround sound system but never a mattress.
clodhopper
12-09-2019, 18:37
Why would you steal a mattress from the hotel that you just gave them all your personal info and credit card? It isn't like they don't know who stayed in the room. What 5 star establishment is going to give you a room with nothing but an X signature in the register and cash down?
Duman
12-09-2019, 19:04
Must be some sort of pervert thing. The thought of what other people have done on a hotel mattress just creeps me out. No way I?d steal one.

That's PREvert....... with apologies to Sgt. Bat Guano, Dr. Strangelove.
ray1970
12-09-2019, 19:07
Maybe it?s an inside job and the cleaning staff is taking them home to their trailer parks.
ChickNorris
12-09-2019, 19:11
https://www.westinstore.com
ray1970
12-09-2019, 19:16
https://www.westinstore.com

That does nothing to repress that overwhelming urge brought on by kleptomania.
Gman
12-09-2019, 19:55
The bed bugs are probably walking off with them.
StagLefty
12-10-2019, 08:45
Maybe it?s an inside job and the cleaning staff is taking them home to their trailer parks.

I resemble that remark !!! [ROFL2]
Aloha_Shooter
12-10-2019, 09:30
ONE mattress theft from a luxury hotel is more than I would expect. As a crime, it's just nuts. I would expect people that stay in those places don't steal mattresses to hide hooker DNA, they just pay the concierge to take care of it.
Gman
12-10-2019, 09:37
It's primarily Europe. I doubt anyone from the US is putting the mattress in their overhead baggage.
Justin
12-10-2019, 10:19
They know exactly how many hotels were surveyed, but they don't post how many have had mattresses stolen; just that it's more than you would think. That tells me that this is a non-story. 5 mattresses over a five year period would surprise me. This can't be all that common because it's a crime that doesn't make sense at all. The cost of a single night's stay in a 5-star hotel is probably a good way to the cost of a decent mattress, especially a used one.

Could be insider threat.

An employee with bulk access to the rooms; e.g. cleaning staff, puts together a group of people, they hit the hotel one night and steal a half-dozen mattresses or so, resell them out of the back of a van for cheaper than what someone would pay for a new one, and pocket the money.

Note: I didn't read the article, so I could be totally wrong, but as far as scams go, that one would probably be reasonably profitable.
spqrzilla
12-10-2019, 10:27
You probably nailed it, Justin. When I was in college, a family friend was head of security for a large grocery chain. I worked part time for him on some investigations and it was astonishing the scale of employees theft rings he worked.
Irving
12-10-2019, 11:25
Not to mention that people besides the paying guest get invited to hotel rooms as well.
Gman
12-10-2019, 12:25
Ultimately, this is the crux of it;

The nonscientific survey...
Sounds like someone needed to get paid for an article.
rondog
12-10-2019, 18:04
I've seen some comforters in hotel rooms I wouldn't mind having, but no mattresses. That sounds like insider theft to me.
ray1970
12-10-2019, 19:13
I resemble that remark !!! [ROFL2]

I had no idea you cleaned hotel rooms. [Coffee]