Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs

An anonymous reader writes "A guest at at Quebec hotel was bitten by bed bugs, brought some down to the front desk and asked for new room. While the fully booked hotel offers to get him another room in a different hotel, he stays out the night then leaves — telling people at the hotel — some of whom also check out. When he wrote about it on Trip Advisor, the hotel demanded he take it down and when he did they sued him for $95,000."

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welcome to reality

[slashmydots]

If it was me the hotel was suing, I'd tell them to take up the complaint up with my department of go fuck yourself, of which Barbara Streissand is the department head.

Re:Babs, look what you did again

[slashmydots]

Indeed. They couldn't have shot themselves in the foot any harder if Barbara Streissand got in a fight with Anderson Cooper's news crew in the lobby.

Re:You know the Hotel Quebec?

[Shoten]

I read somewhere that it is shit.

is it true that the Hotel Quebec is shit?

Could it be that it's full of cockroaches, and that the waiters ejaculate into the food?

Has anyone said that the manager hurls racial abuse at his staff and non-white customers?

Did anyone find any reports about guests having their personal property stolen by the room cleaners?

I did know this one waiter there.

"Do not watch. I can't go if you watch."

Apart from seasoning the lobster bisque, he farted on the meringue, sneezed on braised endive, and as for the cream of mushroom soup, well...

(chuckling in the background)

"Go ahead. Say it."

You get the idea.

Re:Free speech

[ackthpt]

Free speech is for those people who know how to keep their mouths shut!

C-eh-N-eh-D-eh, not YOOSA

Re:mistake in editorial entry

[Mitreya]

Mod parent up. Article summary is wrong.

But that's why we come to slashdot -- Two stories for the price of one!

The summary is usually different from the article and two separate discussion (one about summary another one about article) are carried out in the comments section. I assume this is intentional, because no editor would allow it otherwise, right? :)

Re:How did he dare to disturb the bed bugs?

[sjames]

Won't somebody think of the bedbugs?

Re:I will avoid this place like the bedbug plague

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, I think the lesson here is that it is best to post reviews anonymously, as no good can come from identifying yourself.

No, it's best to post everything anonymously.

Re:Free speech

[Quasimodem]

No. Canadians don't have the inalienable right to as many revolvers, automatic pistols and assault rifles as do Americans, and even if they did, they would still lack the license to use them in the same way Americans in states with "Stand your ground" laws do.

Re:Hotels don't handle this stuff very well IMO

[bmo]

"but it was the largest roach I've ever seen and the damn thing had wings too! "

I saw one like that once. It was also a typewriter.

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BMO

Re:Free speech

[LifesABeach]

Did the lawyer represent the bed bugs, or the hotel owner?

Re:mistake in editorial entry

[markov_chain]

This does not happen often on Slashdot, it was only this one story. The adjacent stories were all unaffected.

Re:Free speech

[Myopic]

Of course it is. People there speaks both French and Douchebag.

Actually the one friend I have from Quebec doesn't even speak one word of French or Douchebag, but he's the exception.

Re:Free speech

[idontgno]

Redundant. "Douche" is French.