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A long time ago I worked on a hotel room booking website and ended up talking to a lot of hotel reception staff during the discovery phase. One of the people I spoke to told me that most of the 'stolen' things are actually just people getting blood/vomit/poop on things and being embarrassed about it so they take them home. It's not really theft in the sense of stealing for personal gain in many cases.


> most of the 'stolen' things are actually just people getting blood/vomit/poop on things and being embarrassed about it so they take them home

How do they know?


They probably find it somewhere in proximity of where the stolen items would have been...




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