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[theweaselking]

Hotel mistakes Nobel laureate for bag lady

She was wearing a Mayan dress, the traditional attire of indigenous people in central America, and the hotel's response was also traditional: throw her out.

Staff at Cancun's five-star Hotel Coral Beach appear to have assumed this was another street vendor or beggar, so without asking questions they ordered her to leave. Except the woman was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel peace prizewinner, Unesco goodwill ambassador, Guatemalan presidential candidate and figurehead for indigenous rights.

Comments

[dorothy-parka.livejournal.com]

urban legend.

http://guanabee.com/2007/08/hotel-coral-beach-in-cancun-mi.php

[torrain.livejournal.com]

What, already? I'd call it misreporting.

(Of course, give it five freakin' days... *sigh* Rumour shouts, truth whispers, and all that.)

[zibacco.livejournal.com]

Well this is easily fixed. If she wants to be treated like a real person, all she has to do is hand out cards explaining why she's special and shouldn't be treated like the rest of the filthy rabble. Barring that, she could always keep her Nobel prize on her at all times to prove she's a real person when necessary. I mean, I know that experience must have been difficult for her, but she's probably used to that kind of thing. I have much more sympathy for those poor hotel staff members she ambushed. I mean, how where they to know?

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

Gee, i dont know, maybe ASK???? I mean, its a crazy new concept, but some people in society actually speak words, and inquire if you have any business with the establishment.

[zibacco.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess the attempt at sarcasm failed...

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Its hard to tell without tone of voice. My bad.

[zibacco.livejournal.com]

No worries :)