AviationGeeks.com - The hotel exhibitionist blacklist, revisited

ON WEDNESDAY, prompted by posts from Kevin Drum and Megan McArdle, we talked about hotel room indecency. A quick review: How common is it for hotel staff to walk in on naked or half-naked guests? Very common, according to hotel staffer Jacob Tomsky's New York Times op-ed. What should we do about it? Mr Drum suggested a "zero-tolerance" policy. Ms McArdle warned that absent-minded types like herself often forget to lock doors and are walked in on accidentally.

I asked readers whether they'd ever been accidentally exposed. Among the answers: "never ever ever," "my friend wandered around the hotel naked and drunk" (a paraphrase), "never," "never," "Asian hotels avoid this problem by having automatic do-not-disturb lights on when you're in the room" (a paraphrase), "twice," and "I've been caught in stairways occasionally by staff or guests with a willing companion while in an intermediate state of dress." One reader even suggested that hotel staff should wear digital video recorders just in case this sort of thing occurred.

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