Don't some people use razor blades when they are trying to commit suicide?

Donna

This is all too creepy. Reminds me of the time we rented a car in Jacksonville a couple of years ago. One of us reached down to pick up something and found a handgun-sized bullet under the seat -- of course, we spent the rest of the trip speculating as to why it was there.

E, yes those carpet cutting blades in the metal handles are disposable. I have used them for over thirty years. What are you begging to differ from? People who use these tools including Xacto blades in their work wrap wads of tape around the used blade before they throw them away.

If you had a clue you would know that the type of blade discribed by wagon is completely differant than a blade used for carpet cutting.

Wagonwheel? Still with us? You are probably scared the woman!

Bennie got a fruit basket and a free night for a pair of undies. A razor blade should pull rank over a pair of undies, shouldn't it??

Go-If you ever get stung by a wasp you can use your cc to scrape the stinger out. ;-)

I totally agree with jor about the blades. I've been in the design business for years and have never ever seen a carpet man use a standard shaving type razor blade. If for some reason one did, I can't imagine it NOT being a single edged kind, but maybe this one was. Some paper hangers still use the regular ones, although always single bladed, but most of them have even moved on to "olfa" blades, more of an exacto knife thing.

Now I'm with dwoodliff on the suicide hypothesis. But I had a friend so stupid she tried to slash her wrists with an electric razor.

Tandoori Girl, your FF miles question has me rolling on the floor. Might as well get miles if we "fly", right?

If you were any kind of up-to-date "health care professional" you would know that stepping on a razor blade doesn't require you to "be tested for all kinds of things."

At the worst you might have received a booster Tetanus immunization."

And you'd also know about the necessity of documentation and reporting. Count yourself lucky that nothing more serious happened.

I believe original poster said it did not break the skin - so there are no health risks I know of

Interesting thread. After reading about bennie's compensation, here's a related question.

At a recent golf resort, my hubby leaned against the door frame of his room waiting for DS. A nail sticking out of the door frame put a hole in his shirt. It only scratched but didn't break the skin (but could have) but it did ruin a new shirt given to him by DS for Father's Day for this golf outing.

Front desk offered a new golf shirt from the pro shop or said he could FAX a copy of his retail receipt for $ replacement.

Hubby is tall and the nail was at his lower chest level. Had it been a shorter adult (or child!) the nail could have put out an eye.

Was that enough compensation? Thoughts?

OK, I'll be the contoversial spoksesperson once again. I understand how horrible it would be if a nail put an eye out on someone. I understand how horrible it would be if someone got AIDS from stepping on an infected razor blade (obviously it would have had to be used for god-knows-what just minutes before being stepped on though) or even from getting tetanus from it IF it had broken the skin.
But what's all this deal about huge compensation because it "COULD HAVE. . ." Heck, the bathrooms had a glass drinking glass which COULD have broken and I could have slipped on the marble floor and cut my juglar and bled to death!! And if I had tripped on the cord to the phone, I actually COULD have gone head first into the window which didn't have safety bars on it and I could have crashed to the ground 23 stories below! Get the picture? I'm all for compensation when something happens, or for proof that harm was INTENDED by the hotel or business, but all this stuff about "WHAT IF" just goes to far in my humble opinion.

Audra, not to pick on you alone, but you say "Was that enough compensation?" Compensation for what? Nothing happened except a torn shirt. Why in the world should there be more compensation for what possibly could have happened? If it DOES happen, then worry about the compensation.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm headed to my service station. One of the lug nuts on my tire wasn't put on tight enough, I discovered it and tightened it, but I plan to go demand money from them, because it COULD have come off when driving and I COULD have been killed!!

Just to point out that razor blades are still used in callus shavers so it could have been used for things other than drugs and would explain why it was dirty.

Patrick, I understand what you're saying and you make perfect sense. I might have said that myself had I not just read bennie's post. She found a pair of panties and got a free night PLUS a fruit basket. To me, that's more than I'd ever have expected or hoped for. Yes, it's gross but no one was potentially injured. (unless one chose to pick up the article, ewww).

So hence, my question. I am SICK to death of frivilous lawsuits but when I hear of situations like bennies, it DOES make me wonder about the situation with DH and DS.

By the way, the other men on the golf outing with my guys were appalled and thought DH was much too nice about the situation. It was afterall, a signature shirt. :)

Patrick's right. I hope the OP doesn't give us the name of the hotel - this is going too far.

Audra, what's a "signature shirt"? And why isn't replacing that shirt good enough compensation?

Maybe it is a shirt that has been autographed by a famous golfer?

Audra, out of curiousity, why did the guys on the golf outing thing your husband was too nice about the situation?

Wasn't your husband the one that leaned against the doorway?

I'm not picking on you but I'm sure there are nails sticking out of my house somewhere.

Was it really the fault of the resort since your husband leaned against it?

Gosh, on our recent vacation to Montana, my husband was thrilled because the hotel gave him a free comb. He said that that is the sign of a classy hotel. LOL! He'd really be living large if he got a free fruit basket!

We also stayed at a cabin and I think a large fish -- trout maybe -- died a gruesome death on the bed's mattress. The clues were huge stains -- HUGE! -- and large rips in the mattress. We did not sleep well that night thinking what had happened. And, to top it off, not even a free comb! We checked out ASAP the next morning.

Hmmm... You do understand that this thread could be a very good David Lynch movie.
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I hate to get into this, but he WAS made whole again, either monetarily and he could have bought the identical shirt, or bought a replacement of his choosing. What if this had happened in a store...what would you have expected? And what if it happened in a restaurant?

Hotels, restaurants etc have brought this curse on themselves, IMHO. In the spirit of goodwill, they began giving away the ship. It caught on and is spreading like the plague it is. Fault or harm isn't even an issue, and some play it like a game. As with frivolous insurance claims, we all pay in the long run. That's not to say the claim for the shirt was frivolous, it was not, but why expect more on top of being made whole again??

This goes to absurd extremes--you'd be astounded. We were discussing this last night and my husband told me his latest. A woman had made reservations in advance in one of our restaurants and requested a specific server. For whatever reason that server wasn't available the night/time of her dinner so she had another. She later relayed this information to her hairdresser who then called the consumer services hotline to complain for his client and demand something to compensate her. Food and Beverage director contacted the client directly...she'd been fine with the new server...there was no problem. Then there's the case of the diner who cut his finger on a stone crab shell as he was breaking it and was looking for a free meal. Thank gawd a line got drawn there!!! Ugh...I could not have that job... I wouldn't last a day. LOL I'm sure by the end of my first day I'd have told off someone.

You mean a shirt is MORE valuable when someone writes on it with a pen? Hmmmm. Seems once you get the free shirt from that nice hotel then you can sell the autograph on ebay -- for what it's worth. That is probably not much so in retrospect you're better off with the hotel's free shirt.

Audra, who signed the shirt? Or is that not what a signature shirt is?

OO, DH did *NOT* expect more! He felt badly since our young son had shopped for and chosen the shirt as a Father's Day gift but together they bought a new one when they returned home.

Geesh, sorry I mentioned it! I was simply relating the incident *in comparison* to the others mentioned: the OP's with the razor and bennies example.

It was a Greg Norman signature shirt. Similar to those of Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods etc. The resort wanted to replace it with a cheaply made shirt with their logo.

I have already stated that I'm in agreement with Patrick. My *QUESTION* or perhaps *observation*, is wondering why one hotel (like bennie's) will compensate with a free night for an article of clothing left behind, but the original poster's and DH's 4* resort aren't as generous.

Interesting how this thread parallels the Hotel Reservation thread, "are hotels obliged to give you the reservation you booked," and what a difference it makes when one isn't personally affected.

Okay, here's one for you - about 1970-ish, when we lived in Maryland, one of our neighbors and her four year old went grocery shopping at a Super Giant store. A Kotex box tumbled off an upper shelf, bumping her son's head as it fell to the floor. Just the side of the box bumped the top of his head, not a mark on him, didn't even hurt, he said. BUT there were witnesses, so as we were moving away, the mother had hired a lawyer to try to get compensation because of the severe psychological effects she was sure her son would suffer from having a KOTEX box fall on her his head! YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP! :-d

No, I don't know what ever happened to her suit!!!! :-)