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Prank call results in trashed hotel room
A prankster tricked a hotel guest in Orlando into breaking a mirror and throwing a mattresses out the window, causing more than $5,000 in damage at a Hilton Garden Inn, according to the Orlando Police Department.
The man got a call from someone posing as a front-desk clerk who told him to smash his windows because of a gas leak, OrlandoSentinel.com reported.
But it didn’t stop there. The prankster also said to break the bathroom mirror to get the gas masks behind it and to use a lamp to break through the wall to rescue a man next door who was trapped. And to throw the mattresses through the window and jump to safety.
After the guest had thrown the mattresses out the window and used a toilet seat to break the mirror, hotel manager Samir Patel arrived because other guests complained about the noise.
Prank call results in trashed hotel room
A prankster tricked a hotel guest in Orlando into breaking a mirror and throwing a mattresses out the window, causing more than $5,000 in damage at a Hilton Garden Inn, according to the Orlando Police Department.
The man got a call from someone posing as a front-desk clerk who told him to smash his windows because of a gas leak, OrlandoSentinel.com reported.
But it didn’t stop there. The prankster also said to break the bathroom mirror to get the gas masks behind it and to use a lamp to break through the wall to rescue a man next door who was trapped. And to throw the mattresses through the window and jump to safety.
After the guest had thrown the mattresses out the window and used a toilet seat to break the mirror, hotel manager Samir Patel arrived because other guests complained about the noise.