W e have several locked bins on wheels located in the various offices… a shredding truck comes one a month and the contents of the bins get dumped in the shredder inside the truck. Two employees of the hotel supervise the operation and sign off on it with the service company. Only three employees have emergency keys to get into the bins…. You in case you accidentally put 40 something passports in the bin.
What nimrods.
Yeah, even if you are the getaway driver in an gasoline vehicle, you don’t stop after the heist to top off the tank . . .
From the article.
The police shared details of the theft on social media on Sunday alongside images of the car packed full of boxes of gaming systems and electric toothbrushes. In a statement to Insider, a police spokesperson said the thieves were fleeing a Sam’s Club store.
WTF?
also, unless you have an industrial shredder, your avg. office-shredder would get pretty much jammed by a passport, now that they have those thick (RFDI) covers
That’s also true. Maybe an average hundred-dollar shredder can power through one passport but I think it’s going to overheat long before it gets through forty of them.
“He had several bail conditions including not being allowed at Walmart.” So, naturally, that’s where he went to hang out with his stolen puppy.
Damn, when that’s one of your terms of release you know there have been some bad decisions along the path.
What horrible reporting that is! They don’t say why the guy was in a position to be out on bail in the first place.
One of the lingering effects of the old sitcom, “Newhart” was a thriving industry for New England boutique hotels.
An unanticipated consequence of this boom was a significant need for document shredding, leading some of these hotels to get one of these:
[Operated by Larry, his brother, Darryl, and his other brother, Darryl]
The hotel that shredded the tourists’ passports has explained what happened. TLDR: they put them in a box in a back room and forgot about them. Then when they were cleaning, someone thought the box contained old documents to be shredded, so they gave them to their third-party shredding provider. So they weren’t shredded on-site by a hotel employee. Not that that excuses anyone.
Good document handling. /s
To me this was the unforgivable part. You had a bunch of passports, very important documents entrusted to you, and this is how you handled them?!
Also this. No one bothered to check what was in the box?
Professional document shredders are not supposed to read the documents they are shredding, for obvious reasons.
No, not the shredding service employees. I was referring to the hotel employee who saw a box, assumed it contained old documents and put it out for shredding without even looking.
Alternative response from hotel management (NSFW - language):
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If that employee was a hotel custodian, they are not supposed to be rifling through documents that are to be shredded either.
The article says it was a manager. Though not sure why a hotel custodian would be deciding what should be shredded.
Actually, according to the article the documents were not given to professional shredders at all. They were not shredded-they were destroyed by a garbage pick up company.
"On Feb. 19, a member of the Kancamagus Lodge’s management team was cleaning the back office and put a number of items to be disposed of into a dumpster. Among the items was a box of the students’ passports, which managers said was inadvertently placed there.
“Our scheduled, contracted garbage disposal company emptied the dumpster and promptly destroyed all contents,” managers said."
BTW, “A member of the management team” does not necessarily mean an actual manager.