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Be Careful Which Button You Push in Your Capsule Hotel Pod

Whoopsie daisy. Here's an example of, um, too-easy, anything-you-want-at-the-touch-of-a-button hotel technology gone awry. Or just an unfortunate incident in a Japanese capsule hotel (one that, for a change, does not involve passing gas).

Flickr user Omer van Kloeten posted this snapshot of what appears to maybe be a lightswitch (or something) inside his pod at a Japanese capsule hotel. Um, however:

In an effort to find the light switch (which ended up being the last one I tried), I pressed this one, which turned out to be the porno pay per view channels. Only later did I notice that the note above it said, among other things, 300円 (yen).

Oh noes. We probably would have done the same thing thinking it was a lightswitch. That's what we'd call a total Hotel FML, right? Except that 300 Yen is, like, 3 US dollars. So, eh.

[Photo: Omer van Kloeten]