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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 4, 2017 17:47:33 GMT -5
Not to downplay this tragedy at all, but the idea of giving hotel employees power to decide who gets searched, who doesn't, and what qualifies to have you not admitted to the hotel (which, knowing average hotel policy would also include forfeiture of one night or more roomrate based on "late cancellation policies") just seems so open for abuse. Unless hotels are checking literally every guest who comes in, which is completely unfeasible from a financial and staffing perspective, then it will get abused. I hate seeing tragedies like this with such frequency, but I don't feel this is the solution. Besides, do you really think it would've been the 65 year old white high roller who would've gotten red flagged walking in? I can only speak for where I work, but this is the official policy for dealing with suspicious guests, quoted directly from our counter-terrorism training:
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 4, 2017 18:57:47 GMT -5
I remember being searched going into an Oilers game. Dude took my hat off and checked under the sweatband for whatever. I never once considered hiding something in there. Until he looked.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Oct 4, 2017 19:25:29 GMT -5
Sheriff Joseph Lombardo is holding a press conference right now. He looks absolutely exhausted and has been kind of prickly to the press.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2017 21:39:19 GMT -5
After Dunblane and Port Arthur, the United Kingdom and Australia took decisive action and have almost completely prevented further attacks of a similar scale. In the United States, none of that will happen, so these massacres will continue to happen over and over again. When it was decided that the killing of the children in Sandy Hook was bearable enough to prevent any changes, any hope of change was lost at that moment. America on gun control
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Oct 5, 2017 11:22:59 GMT -5
TMZ is reporting the shooter booked a hotel across the street from Lollapalooza but never showed. Scary as I almost went this year and had several friends that did go. Whether the report is true or not, the thought did cross my mind that this could easily happen in Grant Park as there's several hotels across the street and it definitely makes me think twice about going to Lolla, Taste of Chicago, or anything else that might be there in the future.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 6, 2017 6:05:38 GMT -5
So, I work at one of the hotels near the festival grounds everything went down at. The stories that the front desk staff have had to endure in the past few days, coming directly from the friends and family of our guests that went to the festival only to not make it back. It's absolutely traumatizing.
And I turn on NXT this week with the Vegas tribute, and it really hit me that this tribute card is actually for where I live and specifically, where I work. I've been to those festival grounds, and it just seems unreal that a massacre happened there.
I'm fortunate enough that the dead aren't among my friends and family, but that dark cloud above my head is just going to be hovering above me for a bit
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