The article below reminded me of some of the weird and wonderful things left behind in our motel rooms over the years.
Our housekeeping staff were once horrified to find a shotgun hidden under a bed. The previous occupant was a keen duck shooter and didn't want to leave it in his car overnight so he tucked it under his bed. He forgot to take it with him when he checked-out and was somewhat embarrassed when we contacted him.
Similar to the article below, we once found a large sum of cash and cheques of several thousand dollars that were made up ready to be banked hidden under a bed pillow. We tried for days to contact the owner. After leaving several messages on his cell phone we finally managed to call him and once we managed to speak to him we can only suppose we caught him at a bad time. With little emotion he simply instructed us to bank it and hung up.
One of our housekeeping staff once rang me in a distressed state from a room she was servicing and demanded that I come immediately. When I arrived she nervously pointed towards the bed where a baby was lying. As I slowly made my way towards the bed I could see that the baby was not breathing. This was definitely one of those OMG moments.
Standing over the bed I reached down and touched the baby's arm. Sure enough it has cold - latex cold! This was the most realistic doll I have ever seen. The housekeeper needed a several cups of tea and a few smokes before she could stop shaking and return to work. I scurried back to reception trying to keep a cool demeanor, relieved that I have still yet to live every motelier's nightmare and discover a real body.
We have a rule at our motel that any unopened alcohol or pornography found by our staff is to be immediately taken directly to the reception. Being socially responsible, I believe it is my duty to personally look after these items and keep them out of harms way. On at least one occasion this rule was clearly breached.
We had a minister and his wife stay with us over a weekend to attend a church service. Upon check-out the minister handed me a DVD neatly wrapped up in our breakfast forms and explained that they found it in the motel room's DVD player.
Yep, you guessed it, The DVD was of the "adult" variety and obviously left in the DVD player by the previous occupant. I still have visions of the minister and his wife opening up the DVD tray to insert their own wholesome viewing only to discover to their horror a "stick movie" staring back at them.
I wonder if they just had a quick look...?
The woman was staying at the Evergreen Motel on Front Street when she found the envelope of cash, said Chelan County Sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Moore.
The woman, in a telephone interview Tuesday, said her parents raised her to do the right thing, so she did.
"The police officers were a little dumbfounded, but you know, I just couldn’t walk away with that in good conscience. It could be somebody’s life savings," said the woman, who asked not to be identified.
She said she had ruffled the bed during the night, and when she got up, she saw something sticking out from the mattress.
Moore said the money will be held in the sheriff’s evidence room until it’s claimed.
The woman has requested a petition to claim the money if the rightful owner does not come forward, Moore said. If no one claims the property and the woman does not file paperwork to get it back, the money will go to the state treasury.
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