Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses, survey reveals

[Aloha_Shooter]

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/luxur...tresses-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]

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.

[hatidua]

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.

[Duman]

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.

[Irving]

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.

[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]

"Stolen" to hide dead hooker DNA

[Irving]

I think that more mattresses have been stolen than journalists killed at luxury hotels. But just barely.

[beast556]

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]

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?