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I used to travel a lot for a national retailer, supervising a local crew who did server installs in new stores.
They always booked my hotel, usually next to the location we would work out of. I like to fly 1st class and usually travel nicely dressed as it always helps the ticket folks feel good about bumping up a business man ... Safe late night flight….I get in my rental car follow the map and rive to the client site to check it out, then to the hotel. Its about mid night and I pull into the hotel lot and there are prolly 10 cop cars lights on and door open and guys with guns in hand and people on the ground. I stopped, looked around and realized that I had actually pulled in to the wrong hotel; I looked up the street and then saw the correct hotel sign a few hundred yards away.
I put the car in reverse and backed out of the hotel and then drove away into the correct hotel lot.
I get less than 10 feet into the correct hotel lot and then the car is blocked front and side by two police cars both officers jump out and are waving guns. The one closest to me is in the classic Weaver stance with light and very very serious, he yells at me to exit so I do... hands up and moving very very slowly…then the cop in front of me starts yelling ! I mean screaming at me to get down get down...the first cop is now yelling don’t move don’t move..WTF I am thinking. The second cop is very very nervous shaking, a single handed grip, while he is fumbling for his belt...I begin to get really scared. The second cop is now behind me and then I am face down in the snowy slushy water
I am cuffed and then forced to kneel now wet and dirty in snow/water as my car is uncremeonsusly emptied. As I try to speak the second nervous cop is in my face waving the gun...I am still kneeling in the snow..and then they tell me we got you now smoky we got you now. To make a long story short I am kept kneeling for more than 30 minutes until finally the rentalcar/florida DL/ airplane ticket make sense to them. They fnaly understand I am not a fleeing drug dealer named smokey…I explain again and again who and why I am there. As they uncuff me and begin to calm down I am furious and demand a supervisor and watch commander. The whole thing including adamant refusal by both officers (white) to apologize to me (black) and the trying to be soothing watch commander (black) takes about 1 hour to sort out.

To add insult to injury the hotel management who has been watching the whole thing from behind the front door REFUSES to honor my reservation. Claming they are booked full.

Fast forward 3 months, 2 lawsuits settled out of court with police dept and hotel. The terms of the settlements prohibit naming names and terms, however: I new Ducati and equally expensive earrings for my wife I still will not fly into that town.