MOTEL KEY OPENS EVERY ROOM

Two guys recently staying overnight at a Rodeway Inn in Gallup, New Mexico, were surprised when, at 1:30 in the morning, another guest in the hotel mistakenly walked into their room. How was that guy’s card able to open their door? Easy – every electronic key at that Rodeway Inn opens every lock. Hotel employees initially said the guest had erroneously been given a master key that unlocked every room, but the guys then used their own room key on several other doors and found it worked every time. They even made a YouTube video. Choice Hotels International, which owns the Rodeway Inn chain, wrote on YouTube that the snafu was due to a malfunction. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention,” the company wrote. “We have contacted the hotel and determined that there was a malfunction in their key system. They have taken immediate action to address this.”
* Great – there’s another 45 bucks the chain has to spend to fix their system.
* “A malfunction in their key system,” as in, they never turned it on.
* Any word on if this happens at EVERY Rodeway Inn, or are they taking a “wait and see” attitude?
* Choice Hotels? They wouldn’t be my choice.
* Maybe you would choose them if you were a burglar.
* Wait, the keys worked. They just worked too well.
* So anyone could go in any room? That’s how socialism would work.
* Here comes the “breaking and entering” charges for the guys for trying the other doors.
* I love the history of these towns out west. For example, Gallup, New Mexico is named after a paymaster for the railroad.
* The only big shots in the Wild West were the outlaws.