Vampires actually seem to be the second most likely explanation after substance abuse for a woman who walked into the bar of the Raintree Inn in New Castle, Indiana and asked for a Coke.
Raintree Inn, Credit: Hotels.com
Everything seemed normal about her at first. Ok, actually nothing seemed normal about her. Because was wasn’t wearing any pants. Or underwear. And as I learned from MTV’s The State over 20 years ago, pants are really crucial in public settings.
The hotel’s bartender told her she was missing pants. But she might have already known that. She spit on him and threatened to kill him. So he told her to leave, and called the cops.
Police went to the woman’s room and found it torn apart “with a table on its side, two broken lamps, the phone cord cut and a TV lying on the floor.”
She explained it all away though. Apparently “vampires had broken into her room and ‘destroyed everything’ and that she had nothing to do with the damage.” The Shaggy Defense.
The reason I find this only the second most plausible explanation is that police found “a bottle of alcohol on the bathroom floor.”
Police went to arrest her for disorderly conduct and public intoxication but she responded by threatening to kill them and said she was going to slice their throats. She spit on them. And that upped the charges, including the felony charge of “Battery with Bodily Waste.”
Oh my goodness, Gary. What are you turning this blog into?
It’s starting to feel like all this gossip rag stuff is no longer just diversion between thoughtful travel content, but instead what you want to be.
I’m sure there is a sound business justification for you. I’m surprised — there are so many utlets for this stuff that hat’s your advantage? But I must have no idea because you’re certainly going all in. It is a bit sad to see such a significant sea change in a blog that many of us remember fondly but seems not to exist anymore.
Larry, if you don’t like the blog’s content, why are you still reading? Why are you so concerned about the content?
Bill — because it is a blog that I have enjoyed for a long long time. This new gossip focus that it has become is relatively new. It has always had a place here, but it was never the predominant focus and I largely just skipped over it. Recently, though, since roughly the time of the salacious United incident, this stuff has started to predominate here, to the point that it is now the blog’s primary focus and the thoughtful analysis that used to be a hallmark is disappearing. Looking at the stories on the first page today, it is hard to recognize the place.
I don’t WANT it to become what it is becoming, and I want more of the content that made it one of the few places that I would check every day. Gary reads the comments and though I am not a frequent commenter I am hardly a troll. If the transition of the blog is inevitable, so be it. I will move on eventually and it will find its new audience, but I don’t see the harm in making the point if things can be salvaged even a little.
Try Doctor of Credit…
Welcome to Indiana, Trump country. I would expect nothing less.
Boo @Mark for dragging politics and hate into this.
btw, Is this a Wyndham property? 🙂
The blog’s content has changed to greater focus on strange and unusual events, etc. than in the past, it certainly fits a niche. I read more of this blog’s articles than I used to. Gary is smart so I assume he is moving in this direction as can increase revenue stream. Most other blogs tend to report the same stories… you can only need to follow one or two of these parallel reporting blogs. I know of only one other well known blog that frequently reports on unusual happenings topics . This blog is good for me and I am a very experienced miles and points guy who does not need the daily drumbeat of articles on intro topics over and over again.
Mark ur a LIberal IDIOT!!!