Comment Re:How could they? (Score 2) 179
I bet you're that cop who gave me my one and only ticket. In case you're not, let me explain. I got pulled over for having expired tags. The conversation with the police officer went like this:
Cop: I pulled you over for expired tags.
Me: Really? Can I take a look?
Cop: Sure.
Me: Well crud, I guess you're right. I never got the notice that I needed to renew my tags.
Cop: Well you look at your car every day! I'm not cutting you any slack!
It turned out that the DMV had my address typed in wrong so I never got the notice. So I renewed my tags, paid the ticket and moved on with my life. I set up a reminder in my financial software to remind me to renew my tags so I wouldn't make the same mistake twice. I legitimately didn't have a reason to even though it's my responsibility as a driver to make sure that's done.
Likewise, the hotel may not have thought to run this by their lawyers because it didn't seem so obvious that it would be against the law. Only amazingly perfect people, like yourself check and double check that every action is legal - even the non-obvious ones. For the rest of us 20/20 hindsight.
Now is there a chance they willfully broke the law? Sure. But I'm not one of those people who assume guilt until proven innocent.
Hmm... That reminds me. I better check to see if eating citrus fruit on a Thursday is against company policy...