Undercover report on TODAY asking for room nearby ... - Page 2

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

One time I took a client out of town to see the Red Sox play the Yankees. I worked for a company with a 24 hour sports station. I wanted to stay at the same hotel as the team - to treat my client.

My friend was our executive sports producer at our 24 hours sports station - even HE couldn't get the hotel from the Red Sox NESN producer. We had to guess based on where they had stayed in the past.

No, we weren't stalkers, but I thought my client would like to see the players up close - which we ended up doing both in the lounge and the front desk area. NO, we didn't ask for autographs!

If teams are that protective of big, bad players, imagine how vulnerable a woman working in the on-air sports field must feel. She doesn't travel with a huge entourage like the Red Sox do either!

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

Did Matt Lauer volunteer for the gig, but they gave it to Jeff Rossen anyway?

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@silkyk wrote:
Just put a Post-it over that peeper hole. I always do. Hey there's a new product for them! Anti-peeper Post-its.

LOL! Try saying that 5 times really fast!

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Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

This doesn't surprise me at all.

It would also be possible that after the Perv found out Erin's room number on the house phone, he just simply requested the room next to her's by using the room number and not her name. I don't think hotel personnel would question anyone asking for a specific room number.

I also think there is a lot less security in hotels than people think. I seriously doubt most hotels have 24 hour monitored cameras in their hallways, many probably have no cameras at all.

So even if they had cameras, if they aren't monitored 24/7, this wouldn't have been able to have been stopped.

Q4u · ‎03-17-2010

@JustJazzmom wrote:
@Venezia wrote:
@millieshops wrote:
Why do hotel rooms need peep holes anyway?
So, if you're in a hotel somewhere and you get a knock on the door...you just open it? No, thank you!
I ask who is it?
Maids will announce who they are.
Also a good idea to keep the lock on your door (that latch bar that folds over to a metal knob at the door jamb).

Just FYI.... anyone can say they are a maid/housekeeping or even room service... however with a peep hole you can ask to see their ID card that's usually around their necks. No card, no appropriate dress, no opening door....

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Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

I don't believe the Marriott defense, because I stay at a lot of hotels, not like a weekly traveller but half a dozen times a year--and have had people know where I am staying without my having told them.

The hotel staff do give out this info. In some cases, it was annoying to me, people I was trying to avoid. Through what I have heard, hotel employees are also susceptible to discreet bribes.

If this lawsuit cleans up the hotel employee training and emphasizes security, the lawsuit will be a boon to all travellers.

I do not tape my peephole or obstruct the door, but I do assume I am under survelliance the whole time I am in a hotel room and behave accordingly. I just have a hunch about that.

Women have not been as frequent travelers as men, and the hotels need to acknowledge privacy issues involving women.

KathyPet · ‎03-09-2010

Haven't paid a lot of attention to the details on this trial. How did this stalker person even know what hotel,she was staying in to start with?

ballyk · ‎03-09-2010

I worked in hotels for 30 years and if I gave out any guest information I would have been fired.

MacDUFF · ‎05-29-2015

@KathyPet wrote:
...How did this stalker person even know what hotel,she was staying in to start with?

Good question...I'd like to know, too. He could have followed her and then called requesting a room next to her...? @KathyPet

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Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

@KathyPet wrote:
Haven't paid a lot of attention to the details on this trial. How did this stalker person even know what hotel,she was staying in to start with?

@KathyPet - Originally, the reports I heard on the news (from his trial) were that he knew she would be in Nashville covering some event (remember, he'd been stalking her for years) and he called the hotel to ask if she was staying there. He was told yes.

I have no idea whether this particular claim was refuted or not but, clearly, he knew where to find her.

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