Steal This Continental Breakfast: The Urban Forager's Guide, Vol. 1

• Amazed the ACLU haven't already leaped down the throats of accommodations necessitating room important factors or credit charge playing cards before enabling access to the offering area.

• Problem is, some of those eating aren't guests, says Hampton Inn manager front desk clerk Alfonso Tobenas. That's right. Folks walk into tourist hotels and pose as guests to gain access to morning chow.

• Whaaat? 

• Yes, or like a TV or bed in a hotel room for which you've paid along with your room.

• I love that Tobenas worked "it is what it is" and the 305-friendly, "bro" into his opening quote. 

• Yep, Chrome works great.  I use it, FF, IE, Opera, and Safari - for different things. For people who are not particularly computer literate I recommend Firefox just because it has about twice as many users and the odds are that there is a chance they or a family member will be more familiar with it.  Yeah, I know that some online gamers like Chrome because of speed.

• This is a special type of troll intent upon discrediting conservatives by posting racist comments.

• Oh plenty of highly literate liberals play con games....

• I wonder if Barry is paying Peggy Joseph's gas bills and mortgage.  Or should I ask if we taxpayers are... Just think of how great it will be when we have universal auto care. Transportation is a basic human right.  Instead of 40 acres and a mule, we now need 40 kilos and a Cadillac. Why should rich people be the only ones who can pay for expensive auto repairs?  When poor people get universal auto repair, they'll be able to get to their jobs and to schools - the program will pay for itself in a snap.  And we won't have to waste money on having multiple auto repair companies on each corner.  I can see it now:  "Barack Obama's Universal Joint - Auto Repair and Health Clinic."

• Taking what's not yours is somehow becoming fashionable with the socialists. What about the hotel guests who don't want to share the breakfast amenities with the local bums?

• Ron Paul is the smartest man in the room!

• $7.50 for a hotel breakfast seems reasonable.  It typically costs a lot more than that, unless it's free; which I've never understood.

• You made me spit my cereal out laughing.

• Can't feed them don't breed them.

• You made the decision to travel and had your own transportation.  You could have eaten a Snickers bar for about a buck.  Instead, you chose to steal food.  You need to send the hotel the money for the food you stole.  You don't get points for being honest.  You owe restitution.   

• This could easily be taken care of.  Issue each guest a recipt that is to be used when they enter the eating area.  No coupon, you either pay or do not eat.

• Don't forget unions, primarily the public sector unions.

• Stealing breakfast! My o' my, what criminals. Either they should sit quietly in the corner and starve to death or go to Wall street or Washington where the word "steal" no longer exists. How dare they. Muffin stealing, shot them on sight as well as those "grape testers" at the super market.

• You are a thief.  It is not your decision to determine if you should get a free meal.  

• Sleazy hotel? I think not but you gave a sleazy response.  These people may be hungry but there are organizations in place to feed them for free.  The hotel isn't a soup kitchen. I make a heck of a good batch of chilli and take to one of our local soup kitchens.  Once in a while when the feeling hits me, I go to Aldi and buy a bag of groceries and drop them off at the food bank. I'm betting that from your response you don't do a thing except others to give free handouts.  I also bet you lock your house doors when you go away because you don't want people of need to steal your stuff.

• Oh crap!  Now the idiots are going to mess up one of the perks for staying at a hotel.  I always knew it was a matter of time.

• The ACLU is friends to everyone who isn't white or Jesus Christ! They have the same spirit that was in the Pharisees that crucified Jesus Christ.

•   I slept in my camper van many times in hotel parking lots and would use the bathroom in the am, but never would dare to try to get a free breakfast. Stealing is stealing. All part of the liberal minded, Ted Kennedy culture, moral decline of America.

• You're not familiar with the term "flash mob", I see.  : )

• And people like you are what give Islam a bad name.  I wonder what lengths you'd go to to feed your children - or your own fat face.

• Yes, because we all know that people who can't afford breakfast make huge amounts of money and pay huge amounts of taxes.   FYI, about half of working Americans pay NO federal income taxes.   Many get "earned income tax credits" so they get checks from the government instead.  Odds are some "rich guy" you envy paid for the subsidies, not him.

• Hotels have some great breakfast these days.  Great opportunity to save money (When staying at the hotel, of course :) www.energyidealist.com

• Who stole your education?    That's atrocious grammar and spelling.  Pay attention in class or you'll be going hungry too. I stole some quarters out of the lunch money can when I was about 8, but since then nothing.   Take a look at yourself if you think "everybody does it" is an excuse. 

• What a sleazy hotel!  People do this because they're HUNGRY.  How can you deny a hungry person food?  I'm glad that the name of the hotel is given so I'll be sure never to stay there.

• People are doing this because they're hungry.  What a slezzy hotel to throw out hungry people.  I bet this same hotel prides itself on annual donations to charity, too.  How about charity beginning at home, bums?

• "not too proud about" is not the same as "ashamed of".   I wonder if you'd have the same attitude if he said "I'm not too proud of molesting those boys, but I was horny, and off I went".   (this is hyperbolic to make a point, so spare me the "you're compariing this to molestation?" stuff) Admitting a sin is nothing close to the same as repentance and making restitution.    It's your attitude that has led to a complete breakdown in ethics in America.  Slacker logic.

• I lived in the area for a year.  It's pretty much a requirement that you be rude, pushy, and obnoxious to live there, apparently.   It's like Ghostbusters, where there is an ooze of negativity flowing in the sewers beneath the city.

• A) A sad testament to what passes for "ethics" in our society.  Short of cash?  Just steal breakfast. B) A sad testament to the incompetence of our corporate leadership.  If you have people walking in and stealing breakfast, how about oh, maybe hiring someone at $10/hour for a couple hours a day part-time to check room keys at the table?   If it's even $25 worth of food taken you break even.  If not it's really not an issue worth worrying too much about as that is about $.10/room/night. I used to work at a place where the GM thought "we couldn't afford" to have a $3.25/hr employee watch a thing where we charged $1 for you to use it.   About 500 people a day used it, and almost nobody volunteered to pay the $1.   He was losing $500/day in revenue at a small business till I took over and stopped that.  For $15 or so in payroll costs we brought in another $500/day.   Some people out there in management are just smiling faces who know how to get promoted.  They can't even do basic math.

• It's stealing plain and simple. 

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• Is that what you say when freelaoaders turn up at your house? Oh, I get it, corporations don't have any right to prevent theft of their property like important peoople like you do. 

• I was at a Denny's once where a police wanted free food for himself but his wife and three kids. It was worng and only showed what a jerk he was when he had the nerve to get mad in front of his kids.

• Some hotels do just that and it's a problem all over the USA

• I hate to point out that this has been happening for years all over the country for free food and using the hotels pools. I have heard many people tell me how to do this for over 20 years. And it's not only poor people but poeple looking to eat cheap. It is still stealing from the hotel and thier guests both

• I'm still waiting on universal auto care. my car needs some work done and I can't afford it.

• If they are hungry and can't pay, it's better to ignore the situation than to have them resort to theft and violence to survive.

• Way to write an article openly advocating theft. You should be ashamed. 

• Oh, you worked with Michelle too?

• LOL!!

• jigga says obumma he be gonna pay for my mortgage and breakfast. Yo just upset cause a black man is in da hizzo and he gonna turn America into a third world hell hole ghetto. Diversity in action. Ship em all back totheir continent where they will be amazed by the wheel and fire.

• The hotels should be glad the flash-mobs don't come in for breakfast.

• And you being such a decent and understanding person, help with the dishes or something productive, aside from that u r home but the lights are out, because only a lib tard would think like u, go troll somewhere else, your arevas useless as your daddy obumbler.

• Yes I am aware of that, I am a meeting planner so I am constantly in hotels. My wife is also a general manager for a major luxury hotel. As a planner I have to constantly worry about outsiders crashing my plated dinners. I am known as a badge nazi and it is a title I proudly accept. Beyond the added cost as I charged by the plate I have to worry about non disclosure as confidential information is almost always discussed at these functions....If you are not part of my group then you have no right to my function's food...Do you hear that John Cusack? I don't give a damn who you are...(Yes once John Cusack tried to crash a function I had in Chicago) Anyway many times officers from various departments have also tried to join in the festivities. When confronted they attempt to flash their badge and assume that will be their get out jail free card...Nope not when I am paying the bill....

• These particular thieves can't read, don't follow current events, and wouldn't even think to steal a newspaper.

• Was that Nancy Pelosi?

• Tom why don't you at least learn a new phrase.? Or better yet get a life, loser.

• How about literacy tests? ROFL.

• Local motel has it on their sign free breakfast, nothing about staying there.  So.....

• Now tell the truth: the guy wasn't black by any chance?

• This is nothing new, One of the gals I worked with a few years ago, her and her hus would do that just about every morning, she was so brazen, she would take danish, rolls, fruit from the buffet, and eat it for lunch at her desk PS She was making well over 50,000 a year

• The ACLU guys are the ones bucking the line! If it's free, they're there!

• You must be black then.

• Why are you so angry?

• Again, these freeloaders aren't homeless; they are all put up on the taxpayer dime through Section 8. And they are increasingly moving them into nicer areas.

• The folks doing this are all on every kind of welfare there is. No doubt.

• This nice guy is acting on the erroneous assumption that these are human beings doing this, so he treats them like humans. Eventually he'll probably be murdered by one of them or their "baby daddies." I'd immediately have them either in handcuffs or laid out in front of dey screamin' keeyids, and I'd laugh about it.

•  I have traveled to Florida several times along Interstate 95 and stayed in the hotels that offered free breakfasts. The hotel staff has told me that people who are not hotel guests simply leave 95 and stop into one these free breakfast hotels, chow down and get back on the road.

• Sad sign of the times we live in. People are hungry and cannot afford to eat. Some may be just cheap bs ers but many are in need and don't know what else to do. Expect this kind of thing to become much more commonplace.

• Coldhearted? How is expecting people to obey the law cold hearted? How is buying tons of food (especially during the holidays) and dropping it off at my local shelter cold hearted? How is believing in law and order but also having compassion for those in need cold hearted? I'm not saying they should starve. I'm saying they should not steal and go to food banks or shelters that have resources specifically geared to those in need. That is called logic. You make zero sense because you're relying on your feelings instead of your brain to arrive at a conclusion.

• I don't expect people to feel the way I do.  I know that the world is full of cold hearted people like you.  

• You have no clue about what they 'should' do. Have you seen their earnings statements? Do you know what their expenditures are day to day? Do you know how thin a thread they may be hanging on by in this economy? No you do not know any of those things. You react emotionally and expect people to 'feel' the way you do. Rationale and logic do not follow the path of feelings. If so everyone would be out of business and everyone would be starving. They provide a service for paying customers. If you do not pay you do not play. That is how our economy is built and sustained. Corporations and individuals provide vast amounts of resources to feed the hungry without the need for those that are hungry having to resort to theft. They choose to steal because it's convenient, they choose to become criminals because they're lazy. Quit defending lazy criminals. 

• ObamaVille

• I can't control the hotels but I know what they SHOULD do.

• quiop is clearly an occupier. "I think they're greedy and they should expect anyone who wants something of theirs (the hotels) to be able to come in and take it regardless of if the hotel has actually said they could." 

• The breakfasts in Fla. are usually better due to the tremendous competition for the $$$ heading to Disney.....

• It's not a problem for hotels to give food to hungry people when the hotels are actually aware of it. Otherwise it is and will only ever be theft. The hotels aren't greedy, they charge for a product. People are willing to pay. The hotels have a bottom line and it isn't your prerogative to determine what that bottom line is or how much they can charge over that bottom line. Nor do you have the authority to allow another to come in a confiscate the hotel's property (food) without the hotel's consent. Quit facilitating theft by being emotionally reactionary and use your brain.

• @darrylsee:twitter And they should share it with hungry people who are just trying to fulfill a basic human need.

• I can't believe how cold your hearts are.  

• You mean hungry thieves right?

• I have done this also, and understand the situation, but I paid the next time I was in the area. You should , now that you may be in better financial situation, send the hotel a cheque or stop by and make a payment. It is the moral thing to do. We have all been in tough situations but that does not absolve you of your responsibility and obligation (to yourself) to pay for what you should have. Otherwise you are no better than any common thief and you probably know this and I guarantee your subconscious will make you "pay" for this transgression one way or the other. I hope you do the right thing.

• @quiop, They do share their wealth.  They share it with their employees, their investors, their suppliers, and their creditors.

• The Obama constituency in action.

• FIRST, these "free" meals are not worth the $7.50 if a freeloader is caught. At least the continental breakfasts I have had. The incentive to lure customers with these "perks" is more criminal. SECOND, using the free breakfast for free security, or using your position in law enforcement to obtain special perks that position affords is of no concern to anyone else. There are no losses experienced to anyone else if these exchanges occur, so good for them.

• Sammy Davis did.....

• A little supervision at the buffet would help reduce the number of free loaders.  I wonder how much of the food is thrown away that otherwise could be consumed by the homeless?

• I've been doing this for years.  But I only do it if the hotel I'm staying in doesn't have as good of a breakfast as a nearby hotel.  Then I just go over to the other hotel and chow down there.  I don't mind if the management wants to have a heart and let other people come eat.  Hungry people need love too.

• The management should be trying to help the community and not just line their pockets with money.

• I am sure people have been doing this forever.

• I'm sorry...I misspoke.  You're not an idiot, you're a complete moron.  Yes, the food was put out to be eaten...BY PAYING GUESTS...Not freeloading thieves

• You are very violent toward hungry people.

• Most certainly true at the Vero Beach Country Inn and Suites. Lot's and lot's of cops chowing down.

• Spread the word folks: for your own good and that of others. Check out cbc.ca, Nov. 30th, short interview about your country and food stamps? It was just on program called "Mark Kelly Connects."  1 in 6 people using food stamps?  We were speechless. Consider the trillion bucks wasted on wars the pasts 10 years.

• He should have given some more tips so hungry people could find some food.

• @RayMarotta:disqus Do even have a heart?  Don't you feel bad for the hungry on the streets?

• I have a job and live on my own.  I know it is hard out there and that some people struggle.  The management of these hotels have no heart if they have food in their kitchen but don't let people come eat it.  It doesn't matter if they stayed there the night or not.  A hungry human is a hungry human. Love, peace, and continental breakfasts.

• Sure John, Let 'em pick it out of the dumpster after the paying guests are through with it... Quit sniveling and grow up...

• If you take something that doesn't belong to you, IT'S STEALING.  Did your mommy drop you on your head too many times when you were a baby or, is that drivel you spout coming from a crack pipe? BO STINKS...Wash it (and you) away in 2012

• It isn't theft.  It is put out to eat.  Why do they (or you for that matter) care who sits down to eat it?

• MORON...You need to get your head out of your a$$,  get a job, and, move out of Mommy's basement.  What kind of society is this?  It's a free market capitalist society where people take care of themselves, know the world doesn't owe them a thing, and donate more to charitable causes than the left-wing does if they so choose. BO STINKS...Wash it away in 2012

• Most restaurants like to have cops and cop cars around for obvious reasons. It is much cheaper to give a cop a meal than hire security personel. We don't consider them offenders. We invite them.

• Let them eat the stale continental breakfast. It will make the hotels freshen up the food.

• I would authorize a "shoot to kill" order for the perps! 

• You, whatever you are, are an idiot.  Hotels are in business to make a profit.  They are not a charity.  There are churches, soup kitchens, and, shelters for that.  Or, HORRORS! They could GET A JOB and take care of themselves.  This is nothing more than theft. BO STINKS...Wash it away in 2012

• I do.  So should hotels.  They make more money than I do.  They need to share their wealth and quit being so stingy with people.  If they are going to just put out food on a buffet they can't expect people not to come in and eat it if they are hungry.

• Activate the Ohio guard.

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