Nerveracking!!!!!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 11/13/06
The whole experience was awful. When we checked in there were police and SWAT team members going up and down elevators. When we got to our room we called the front desk to ask what was going on. They told us that the BET awards were going on and they had celebraties staying on the 16th floor at the hotel. So we lightened up about the police being there, and went out to look over at the atrium area. We were on the ninth floor so we had a fairly decent veiw of it. We were very curoius and wanted to know what celebraties were there. So, we were also looking up at the 16th floor. About that time, we saw a person squating down in a corner by a coke machine. AT first we thought the person was holding an umbrella, but then we realized that they were holding a gun. A huge gun. Then, we saw the person stand up and fire the gun into an area where the rooms would be at. We heard the gun fire, saw the fire come out of it, and smelt the sulpher. We were terrified. All three of is dashed back to the room as fast as possible. Then we called the front desk back to see if they knew what was going on, and to see why they lied to us. The front desk told us that there was no shooting, that it was a sledge hammer. They were arguing with us. We told them they we were eye witnesses. We got on the phone with the manager, and he finally admitted that it was a gun that the SWAT team had fired. We weer furoius. They had lied to us three times. That night we stayed in the room and did not open the door. We were the only people who knew about the robbers being held up there, or the SWAT team having to shoot at them. Then, at about 11:00 an alarm went off. It said some thing like "Everyone get back to your room, there is a fire." At that point our nervs were shot. We were mad and terrified at the same time. We called the front desk yet again and we asked to speak to the manager. He told us that it was just a fire alarm that had been pulled, then he told us another story. He said that too many people had been smoking on the elevator and the alarm had gone off. So, we still didn't know what to believe. No one slept that night. We were terrified. That morning we got out of that hotel as fast as possible. The next day we found an article on the internet where a police officer was telling the whole story.