Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses, survey reveals

[ChickNorris]

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[ray1970]

https://www.westinstore.com

That does nothing to repress that overwhelming urge brought on by kleptomania.

[Gman]

The bed bugs are probably walking off with them.

[StagLefty]

Maybe it?s an inside job and the cleaning staff is taking them home to their trailer parks.

I resemble that remark !!!

[Aloha_Shooter]

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]

It's primarily Europe. I doubt anyone from the US is putting the mattress in their overhead baggage.

[Justin]

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]

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]

Not to mention that people besides the paying guest get invited to hotel rooms as well.

[Gman]

Ultimately, this is the crux of it;

The nonscientific survey...

Sounds like someone needed to get paid for an article.