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Beware The Artful Hotel Bathtub Butcher

September 18, 2012 at 9:02 AM | by | Comments (3)

We know how lonely it can get in hotels sometimes. In fact, just the other week we (quite enjoyably) watched a 25-minute tutorial by celebrity chef G. Garvin, dispensing wisdom on, among other things, how to keep things interesting when you're on the road.

You know who we won't be taking that kind of advice from? Steven Rinella. The guy in the picture above, spearing a chunk of unidentified barbecued meat with an orange pocketknife, who recently told NPR host Kris Boyd that he occasionally butchers the odd deer right in his hotel bathroom.

Though he did make sure to point out that he always lays down a sheet of plastic on the floor. Ah, good. Don't we all feel better now?

We stumbled across this article on Dallas Observer food blog, "City of Ate." in it, the writer recounts an interview she'd just listened to on NPR with The MeatEater TV show host Steven Rinella, who was recounting a routine hunt.

"He starts by breaking down his hunted game (say, deer or javelina) into quarters while out in the field, then back at the hotel, he finishes processing the game by using the hotel bathtub and by laying plastic on the bathroom floor.

He processes animals in hotel bathrooms and bathtubs!

Do you think he hangs the "Do Not Disturb" sign?

I'm being totally open minded. Is this OK?"

No, it's not. Let us be the first to tell you. And we can only imagine what his home bathtub must look like. And so it goes. Another Tuesday, another reason to be very, very afraid of what lurks inside strange hotel bathrooms.

[Photo: HotelChatter; inset, The Sportsman Channel]

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That is not ok.

I hope he scrubs the bathroom down when he's done. That's not fair to the housekeepers or the other guests. Also, how does he get a deer past reception??
juliana on September 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM #Permalink

Always asking the right questions!

I think by quartering the animal and then putting it into a bag he can sneak by the front desk undetected? But then again, there's all the blood. So...pulley system through the window?
ASchechter on September 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM #Permalink

Depends on the hotel

If you are at a hotel where you can park in the back and use the back-door entrance (or if they have multi-entrances and you just need a room key), there's no need to pass reception if you've checked in first w/o deer in hand.
Not that I would know the ins and outs of sneaking past reception or anything.
Chanize on September 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM #Permalink

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