Hotel Pranks Cause Guests to Damage Hotels

Unsuspecting guests, employees swept up in wave of hotel pranks
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Lisa Kantorski took the call from the person who claimed to be a front-desk clerk about a gas leak in their hotel room near Orlando International Airport.

She frantically relayed the information to her husband Mark, an Indian River County sheriff’s deputy. He followed the caller’s instructions ... and smashed out the window of his room with a toilet tank....

Break the mirror on the wall. Check.

Use the lamp to bash in the wall to get to the trapped man on the other side. OK.

Throw the mattress out the window and jump for safety. Out the mattress went.

Room 204 of the Hilton Garden Inn was a shambles.

...In Arkansas, a caller posing as a sprinkler company employee convinced a motel employee to do more than $50,000 in damage to a motel as part of a "test" of the motel’s emergency alarms.