How to get evicted from a hotel

[Racket_Man]

This couild be classified as a Sighting but the SC behavior in this situation was horrible.

/a little background
2 years ago my state passes a law forbidding smoking in hotel rooms, bars and various other public venues. The law is QUITE explicit and specific. heavy fines for the offender no wiggle room allowed.
/end background

I took a double run to the hotel behind us. As I was waiting for my customers to come to the lobby to get their orders I heard the following conversation

Desk clerk - DC
Hotel security/manitenance guy - HS

HS -= Yeah I had to open the windows to try and air the room out. I also locked out the door card system.
DC - Yeah good job. Hey look at this they ran up tabs in the bar and <small in building restaurant> and charged the tabs to their room.
DC - Are you sure they are gone????
HS - YUP I followed them all the way out to the parking lot. The room was a mess with beer cans all over the place and cigarette ashes everywhere. We're gonna have to steam clean the room tomorrow.
DC - They wanted to pay for the "damage charge" out of their deposit but the deposit was only $50 and the "damage charge" is $100. And that does not even cover their bar and restaurant tabs.

My customers show up and I did not get to hear the rest of the conversation.

[bhskittykatt]

Sounds like someone's getting permabanned.

Unfortunately probably not much you can do to get the money out of them short of taking them to small claims (which is probably more trouble than it's worth, though I do know of one local hotel owner who would do it).