Hotels 'cash in' on bomb attacks

[lebkuchen]

Hundreds of commuters spent Thursday night stranded in London and some have accused hoteliers of cashing in on the crisis in the capital.
Prices at a number of London's hotels increased by more than double on Thursday night, the BBC has learned.

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With the transport networks down and no way of returning home, one businessman from Manchester told the BBC he had paid £250 for an £80 room.

A spokesman for the British Hospitality Association, which represents hotels, said he was surprised by the increases.

Commuters said they were appalled, and thousands chose to walk for hours to reach home rather than stay the night in a hotel.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4662809.stm

[orpupilofnature57]

1. And that's Shrubs rub, terrorism by extortion, Kkkarl breathing easy.

[TheGoodCitizen]

3. BINGO

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Welcome theGoodCitizen!! Voltaire and SVEC rule!!

[TheGoodCitizen]

6. Thanks for the warm welcome...

....glad to be here!


* The dangers of delinquency
* A good citizen eats plenty of meat
* Code of the Junior Rifleman
* Outdoor activities for family fun
* A good little boy never talks back
* Why it's never right to poison the neighbor's dog

[TheGoodCitizen]

2. These displaced peoples should be given...

...FREE hotels for a night! WTF! :(

[theHandpuppet]

5. Is this kind of price gouging illegal in GB?

If not, it should be!

[TheGoodCitizen]

7. Female anchor person...

...on CNN just now said "there's a special place in HELL" for people like that.

:evilgrin: :grr: :evilgrin: ........USA would never do thatO8)

[Theres-a]

9. What about the generator/water sales

Last year after the hurricanes?CNN has a short memory.

[Torgo Johnson]

14. Funny...

some businesses in the U.S had no problem exploiting the September 11th attacks,especially gas stations.

[bushisanidiot]

17. Yep, that happened here. Those stations went out of business because

nobody would buy gas from them after that.

Hume, Cha-Ching-Cheney, AWOL Bush, Ken Lay, Chevron, Exxon/Mobil, Texaco etc. are nothing but opportunists who create crisis situations in order to make money off of everyone else's misery.

[Justice]

8. Hope Brit Hume Was Able to Invest in London Hotel Chains

I know he was concerned about buying low yesterday morning, hope he was able to get in in time.

(sarcasm)

[bushisanidiot]

10. I Wonder if Brit Hume thought to invest in London hotels when the 1st bomb

went off.

what a quick thinker that guy is..

:P

[lebkuchen]

13. Question about one of your pics

Is that Bush w/the bicycle? Is it recent? I've been trying to find one of him running into a policeman, but it hasn't turned up on the web yet. I'll pay!

[TheGoodCitizen]

19. I believe...

...that's an older photo of him falling of his segway (sp?).

:applause:

[lebkuchen]

21. He is very uncoordinated

I rode 2000 miles one summer and didn't fall once. I get the sense there is something medically wrong with the Chimp.

[mbperrin]

11. Horrors!! Profiteering!!! On the misery of others!!!

Cain't believe capitalists would ever do this!!!

(Say, buddy, wouldja like to buy this special detector, alerts you if there's a bomb within 50 miles - only $500 cash, and guaranteed for a lifetime!)

[gkhouston]

15. wow, when did Halliburton get into the hotel business? n/t

[NorthernSpy]

12. you'd think that the British would have laws against this sort of thing!

Laws against price-gouging or exploiting people struck by disaster are commonplace in the US.

I never saw any profiteering when Maine had that big ice storm in '98. It was the dead of winter, and the power was out for days thoughout most of the state.


My sympathies to the British public, and I hope that their government will do more to protect them.

[onager]

16. We saw this in the big '94 quake

Quite a few store owners were fined or arrested for price-gouging after our '94 Northridge quake here in L.A. Including the assclown who owns the big hardware store not far from me.

I have to contrast that with the old Iranian guy who ran a little deli beside my house. He threw open the doors and gave away everything perishable in the store. He said he would rather see it go to his hungry neighbors than spoil. (Most of us had no gas or electricity for about a week, at least in my neighborhood.)

[lumpy]

18. Now that is truly a 'Christian 'act.

Fundies take note.

[Endangered Specie]

20. Money grubbing bastards...

bloody shame, I hope they get fined/jailed.