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OK someone here is a master of thread titling. I am not a criminal or wanted by any authority in Prague.
For those of you who don't know - the hotel was a "five star" hotel - but it was a hole. The staff sucked, the building sucked, the elevators sucked, the rooms sucked, and the location sucked. It was also REALLY expensive. But the food was REALLY GOOD. Anyway...
I was hanging with Meat and had my Ecko jacket on a chair 10 feet from me. They closed the bar and the place was EMPTY except for four guests - me, Meat, and two other people who were friends of mine in another partitioned part of the bar area. And there were a pile of bartenders and cleaning people cleaning up. I looked up and saw my badass jacket was gone and I was more than a little upset - since none of the four of us had it. I was convinced someone at the hotel took it and walked or locked it up where I could not get it. It was obviously far more likely that they took it and locked it up because the front desk did not have it. The hotel staff refused to go look for it, quite possibly because many are lazy communist leftovers who are overpaid to do nothing. I was amazed that they just didn't care at all.
For those that know me, I don't take any guff from hotels. The guy behind the front desk and the security guard were just sitting around being lazy and would not even ask the non-english speaking cleaning crew if they saw it. I was so pissed off at the hotel staff that I figured I would have to step it up and file a police report. Either that or I knew that I needed one to file a card claim. I think it was a little of both - and I was surprised how the front desk guy still didn't care what was going on.
There was ONE officer at the police headquarters - which was the building across the street from the hotel - who spoke English. They use typewriters. It took a while. It sucked. They didn't even have English translations of the documents and told me they would mail me one in 60 days. They were nice though.
Anyway, it was reasonably cold in Prague and I was pissed all weekend.
And get this - Meatman from netpondcash was the hero of the day! He tracked down the perp and caught him. I don't know exactly what events transpired but he did tell me that a Brit took it, and eventually - after Sleazy took pics of a bunch of people wearing it - I got it back and wore it home.
So there you go - no jail, no trouble, and not too much drama. Prague was reasonably good - but REALLY expensive. I'd go back, unlike certain other countries that begin with M and end in exico.
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