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>> STEVE: So we did a story a couple of weeks ago about people using Airbnb for freaky orgy
fests, and I guess the trouble those crazy kids got in didn’t deter escort services
from getting in on the “bed and BREAKfast” and turning the apartment rental service into
glorified brothels!
>> LEE: Yeah, according to an anonymous 21 year old call girl who works for said brothel
told the NY Post, quote: “It’s more discreet and much cheaper than The Waldorf…
Hotels have doormen and cameras.
They ask questions.
Apartments are usually buzz-in.”
She has a point.
>> STEVE: So what’s the big deal, let the hookers make their monies, and let the clientele
enjoy a little afternoon delight in the comfort of someone else’s home.
Oh, that’s the big deal.
Airbnb allows users to sign up and offer their own apartments and homes for rent, hence the
bed and breakfast portion of the name.
So basically, hookers are using YOUR home to have sex with strangers, potentially in
YOUR bed, and you don’t even get to take part in any of it!
NO FAIR!
>> LEE: Even more no fair is this particular prostitute charges $500 an hour!
GADZOOKS!
Guys, go to a bar, make conversation, meet a nice lady, buy her a drink.
$20-$40 tops.
Then go to your OWN apartment.
>> STEVE: The anonymous prostitute said her escort service generally rents an Airbnb apartment
in the Financial District, or Midtown West in NYC, for up to a week at a time.
Then they’ll cycle numerous hookers through the place for round’ the clock hooker bangin’!
CHA CHING!
>> LEE: And the way this whole thing works is, workers from the escort services secure
apartments through their own personal Airbnb profiles, and they pay for the costs using
prepaid debit cards.
The apartments range from $200 to $400 a day.
Which saves the escorts around $200 to $300 a night.
>> STEVE: And as I said before, this isn’t the first time Airbnb has been plagued with
naughty nuisances, including poor ol’ Jessica Penzari, a 29 year old publicist who rented
out her place to Airbnb, only to be bamboozled by a woman who said she was in the army, was
being deployed that week, and wanted a place to hang out with her friends.
The “Army lady’ was really a hooker, who was stabbed by a client over the price of
his “massage”.
When Penzari returned to her home, there was police tape, baby wipes, and at least 10 condoms.
>> LEE: When Airbnb was asked to comment about all these shenanigans, they responded with
“The entire hospitality industry deals with issues like this, and we have zero tolerance
for this activity.”
So Airbnb is now more like, Airbnbnb, AIR BED AND BREAKFAST AND BOOTY
>> STEVE: SNAP!
So, friends what’s the weirdest thing that has happened in your home, or apartment involving
strangers, let us know!
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