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Woman vows to sue hotel for 15 US cents after naked man barged into her room
- The woman said the lawsuit would be an effort to draw attention to lax hotel security
- Workers had even previously escorted the man back to his room following earlier attempts to enter random rooms
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Mandy Zuoin Shanghai
A Chinese woman said she would sue a hotel chain for one yuan (15 US cents) to draw attention to poor security in some hotels after a naked man entered her room in the middle of the night.
The woman, known as Huahua on Weibo, said last week she hoped the possible lawsuit would result in a formal apology and internal changes.
She also said she would sue the man who entered her room after she received the surveillance footage of the incident, which happened on July 31 at a Ji Hotel in Shanghai, a brand owned by Huazhu Hotels Group.
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The man, whose name was not released, was caught on surveillance video wandering around the hallways in his underwear and knocking on random hotel rooms for nearly 50 minutes.
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When the receptionists and security realised he was trying to enter strangers’ rooms, they escorted him back to his room and stood guard for a while. But they eventually left, assuming he had given up. He had not.
The man managed to break into Huahua’s room, saying she had left her door open. Huahua said she might have left the door unlocked by accident because it had been faulty earlier.
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