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
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.
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.
Despite wearing underwear in the earlier surveillance footage, Huahua said the man was completely nude when he barged into her room.
Huahua, who was still awake, said: “I shouted at him, ‘Are you crazy?’ He answered, ‘Why are you pretending? Your door is open. Didn’t you keep it open to let others come in to play with you?’”
She called the police immediately after getting him out of the room, and they detained the man for five days. The mental health of the man is unknown and it is unclear if he was sober.
In a video statement posted on Monday, Huahua said she received thousands of messages from Weibo users sharing similar experiences after she went public last week.
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Ji Hotel posted an apology on Weibo over the weekend, pledging to make changes in all its outlets across China to ensure safer services. The hotel said it would intensify night patrols and improve the quality of door locks.
Huahua said she wanted a formal apology stamped with the company’s official seal.
