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MILTON,VT - March 15, 2007 - Adirondack Towels and Scrubs, a national supplier to the hospitality industry, announces their selection of the most outrageous travel stories of winter 2007.

Adirondack Towels and Scrubs keeps their customers up to date on important industry developments with daily news links posted on their web site's home page as well as weekly newsletters sent via email. Every 3 months the company issues their most outrageous travel stories for the previous quarter.

This quarter's most outrageous travels stories are:

1. This sure doesn’t look like Sydney
A 21 year old German tourist entered the wrong destination on a travel web site and ended up on the wrong continent. Tobi Gutt wanted to go to Sydney, Australia, but the flight he incorrectly booked was for Sidney, Montana. Gutt didn’t notice the mistake until he reached a stop in Portland, Oregon. "I did wonder, but I didn't want to say anything," he said. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States." Gutt spent three days in the Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Sydney with cash sent from his parents and friends in Germany.

2. Man tries to steal $76 million hotel
A Staten Island man faces prison time for allegedly trying to steal the trendy SoHo Grand Hotel by filing phony papers with the city. Kouadio Kouassi tried several times to file paperwork that would have transferred ownership of the hotel to him. But the paperwork itself was one of the things that uncovered the scam and led to Kouassi’s arrest on December 29. "The documents were not filled out in a professional way or not filled out at all," says Gill Hearn, commissioner of the city’s Department of Investigation.  "It was just not the kind of filing you would see if it was a real commercial transaction."

3. Those sneaky hotel managers
Employees of the Royal Arkansas Hotel and Suites made a shocking discovery when they arrived for work on February 5. The business was shut down with guests still inside. They found the office safe empty and the door left open. A cash drawer from the restaurant had several thousand dollars removed, and employees said managers had ransacked offices, ripped out hard drives, and skipped town after the business closed the night before. Furniture and fixtures had also been removed from several areas of the hotel.

4. Where you don’t want to find your luggage
Houston, we have a baggage problem. In December authorities found 68 pieces of airline luggage in a trash bin behind a Houston pet store. Another 90 pieces were later found at two other locations. The bags belonged to travelers passing through Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Six men have been charged in the thefts, all employees of airport contractor Menzies Aviation Group. The London based firm handles baggage and ground operations at several U.S. airports.

5. He should have been wearing a badge
A passenger on a U.S. Airways flight from Washington D.C. to Fort Myers was forced to make an unexpected layover. The man, who had been drinking on the flight, became belligerent after the flight attendant refused to serve him another round. While throwing a tantrum, the passenger slapped the man sitting next to him. Oops - the man happened to be an on-duty federal air marshal. The unruly passenger was promptly arrested and upon landing was given free transportation to the local steel-bar hotel.

6. Probably not “American Idol” material
A night porter at the four star Holiday Club Hotel in Are, Sweden, got in trouble for signing over the hotel’s intercom. In an attempt to amuse himself and the cleaning crews, the porter sang songs containing a lot of foul and risqué language. Unfortunately, many of the hotel guests also heard him and complained. Some of the guests were so upset they threatened to beat the porter up if they saw him again. The hotel paid guests $5,000 in compensation and offered free stays if they visit the area again.

7. Man takes the quick way down
A lucky Wisconsin bar owner survived a fall from the 17th story of a Hyatt Hotel in Minneapolis on January 20. Joshua Hanson and two friends returned from a night of drinking at about 1:30 AM. When the elevator reached the 17th floor, Hanson ran down a short hallway toward a floor-to-ceiling window. Despite the double-paned window and safety bar, Hanson crashed through the glass. Hanson fell 300 feet and landed on a roof overhang one floor up from the street. The 29 year old man was taken to a hospital with multiple broken bones and internal injuries. Funny, he doesn’t recall the incident.

8. Where have you been the last 25 years?
While returning from a shopping trip to Malaysia in 1982, Jaeyaena Beuraheng got on the wrong bus. She ended up in Bangkok instead of her home in south Thailand, about 800 miles away. Speaking only her local language of Yawi, Jaeyaena was not able to communicate with anyone. She boarded another bus she thought would bring her home, but instead it took her 400 miles further north. Jaeyaena lived as a beggar for five years before she ended up in homeless shelter in the central province of Phitsanulok in 1987. She lived in the shelter for 20 years until visiting exchange students were able to understand her and reunite her with her 7 children.

9. They’ll know if you’ve been naughty or nice
Be careful how you behave during your next hotel visit. A new Australian database is tracking hotel guests who behave badly. The site is only accessible to operators of hotels, motels and vacation homes. It tracks five levels of guest misconduct ranging from lower-level disregard for regulations (like smoking in non-smoking rooms) to more serious infractions like assault and vandalism. More than 1,000 properties have signed up for the service since it launched in December. The owners expect to expand to the U.S. by the end of 2007.

10. What would Princess Fiona think? 
A man with a donkey checking into a UK hotel under the name “Mr. Shrek” was later arrested and charged with cruelty to an animal and lewd behavior. Thomas Aloysius McCarney told the hotel staff the donkey was a breed of 'super rabbit' he was bringing to a fair. The donkey went berserk in the middle of the night, damaging the room’s mini-bar and running up and down the hotel corridor. Police were called and found McCarney in his hotel room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is thought to have swallowed. McCarney’s lawyer said his client’s wife recently left him, and he had become increasingly lonely.