Before You Check Out Of Your Hotel Room, Check Under The Bed For A Homeless Man

Here's one to send your creep-o-meter through the roof: a Florida man has finally been caught after sneaking into the hotel rooms of recently checked-out guests and "extending" their stay. Kind of like Goldilocks, except this guy sounds way less picky.

Guests at multiple hotels, including Ritz-Carlton, Hard Rock and Loews Portofino Bay, were all victims of the hotel freeloader, who apparently had pretty expensive tastes when it came to room service. Too bad it wasn't his credit card that were paying for all the fun.

MSNBC reports that David Price was arrested on Friday and was being held at the Orange County Jail in Orlando:

"At [Loews Portofino Bay], Price allegedly racked up nearly $9,000 in charges on the credit card of Ohio man Joseph Barak, WFTV said. �
'I don�t know how he got in my room, how he got my debit card.� But he got like the best wines, the best restaurants, room service.� He got clothes and the whole ball of wax,' said Barak, [who] was later able to get his money back."

Hm. We would really like to know just how Price managed to not only get into rooms but also be able to wander in and out of them at will. Did he also procure a key card to the room? And why didn't housekeeping figure out that it was someone else other than the original guests staying inside the room? There's a lot that sure doesn't add up here.

In the meantime, we'll just take a minute to go over some hotel security 101. Like how important it is to dead bolt the door whenever you're alone in your hotel room. Not to mention being careful with the information you hand over to the hotel, as the FTC's current lawsuit against Wyndham shows.

Have you ever dealt with a hotel room intruder�during or after your stay? Would you blame the hotel or the fact that you forgot to check under the bed before leaving? Let us know in the comments below!

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Right before I checked out of my hotel yesterday (and before I read this story), I looked under my bed. Must've had a premonition!

And I've had an intruder before--a bartender on a "tall ship" cruise line who used his master key to pay me a uninvited special late night visit. Seems he thought my friendly bar banter was some sort of Stella Getting Her Groove Back invite.Can you say, VIOLATION!

THIS IS MAJORLY CREEPY. Now I'm afraid of under my hotel bed.

i think some one will be fired there, that really horrible mistake there

I wonder how can you hide under the bed unnoticed.

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