Chris Doucette reports:
Thousands of slips of paper with personal information of past guests from around the world were found blowing in the wind in an alley behind a downtown hotel Friday morning.
And many of the old documents, found around 7:30 a.m. scattered next to a dumpster behind the Best Western Primrose at Carlton and Jarvis Sts., also had photocopies of the guests’ identification attached.
“It’s not wise to have that type of stuff floating around,” Toronto Police Const. Tony Vella said.
Most of the materials were small cards filled out by guests at check in. One stack, observed by the Sun, was dated 1998 and included the guests’ names, home addresses, phone numbers and signatures.
Stapled to the back of some were credit card receipts and driver’s licences from all over North America, Europe, Australia and even South Africa.
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I winced when I read the quote from the manager about how there was no need to worry because it was mainly old documents. At least pretend to empathize with guests whose personal info was floating around behind your premises, huh?