Copperhead
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Morticia - "It never occurs to me to assume a guest will be armed. Kind of hope I can continue to be that naive."And from another Morticia posting
"Altho, I think the innkeeper went too far in attempting to appease this jerk, I have to take her word on the advisability of 'getting into it' with someone who sounds unhinged, with no one to back her up, except family, if it went horribly wrong.
No, I'm not happy about the situation, wish none of us ever have to encounter this behavior, but it's obvious it happens and we all need to understand what our 'Plan B' is, which I think they've spent a lot of time going over this weekend.
It's given all of us something to think about. Would there have been serious harm to the other guests, the innkeepers, their family, etc had they forcibly tried to remove him? Unknown. No one wants to live in fear in their own home which is why this incident should be part of the conversation at all of our B&B's."
Yes, we as innkeepers are not immune to having the posibility of someone going 'postal' on our property. We need to have that discussion and know exactly what we would do in that type of situation.
I had never given it a thought about an guest coming into my home with a weapon, then one time I was cleaning a room and was returning some missplaced hangers in a closet and there on the shelf was a gun. Freaked me out to no end and I went right to DH to discuss it. The guest was really as friendly of a person any of us would want as a guest in our home, but my issue was more as to why he felt he needed a gun in my home...did he not feel safe? Well that afternoon after seeing that I had cleaned the room (he was not aware we did that service), he came down to appoligize about the gun. He stated he forgot he had it in his vehicle when they left home and he felt it was safer here than left in his vehicle while parked in the big city. He told me it was totally empty etc... This sort of put us at ease but I still felt better when they were gone.
"Altho, I think the innkeeper went too far in attempting to appease this jerk, I have to take her word on the advisability of 'getting into it' with someone who sounds unhinged, with no one to back her up, except family, if it went horribly wrong.
No, I'm not happy about the situation, wish none of us ever have to encounter this behavior, but it's obvious it happens and we all need to understand what our 'Plan B' is, which I think they've spent a lot of time going over this weekend.
It's given all of us something to think about. Would there have been serious harm to the other guests, the innkeepers, their family, etc had they forcibly tried to remove him? Unknown. No one wants to live in fear in their own home which is why this incident should be part of the conversation at all of our B&B's."
Yes, we as innkeepers are not immune to having the posibility of someone going 'postal' on our property. We need to have that discussion and know exactly what we would do in that type of situation.
I had never given it a thought about an guest coming into my home with a weapon, then one time I was cleaning a room and was returning some missplaced hangers in a closet and there on the shelf was a gun. Freaked me out to no end and I went right to DH to discuss it. The guest was really as friendly of a person any of us would want as a guest in our home, but my issue was more as to why he felt he needed a gun in my home...did he not feel safe? Well that afternoon after seeing that I had cleaned the room (he was not aware we did that service), he came down to appoligize about the gun. He stated he forgot he had it in his vehicle when they left home and he felt it was safer here than left in his vehicle while parked in the big city. He told me it was totally empty etc... This sort of put us at ease but I still felt better when they were gone.