Angry Hotel Guest Crashes Car Through Lobby Over Bill

Angry hotel guest has trouble with bill, crashes car through lobby.

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A man from Oklahoma is kicking himself for not using Airbnb (I imagine) after a dispute over a hotel bill made him angry enough to ram a car through said hotel's lobby. His rage was pregnant Brazilian woman catches husband cheating and destroys his car levels of serious. Was his recklessness warranted? Not at all. 

John Edward Parsley, a 62-year-old guest at the Comfort Inn & Suites hotel in Alva, OK, crashed his truck into the lobby on Dec. 10. Surveillance video of the incident showed Parsley's truck almost hitting two women behind the hotel's front desk. One of the women who narrowly escaped death was Rupal Kingson Christian, co-owner of the hotel with her husband. An Alva Police Department incident report says Parsley was angry over a problem with the hotel bill.  

Christian said Parsley's debit card was declined the first night he checked in and tried to pay. "He asked us to run it again because he said there was plenty of money in the account," she said. After a second decline Parsley reportedly paid the room in cash. But Parsley decided to tack on a second night and when he tried to pay with debit card again it declined. Again he paid with cash. According to Christian, Parsley received an email from his bank about a $264 authorization for his debit card. That's when things started to get heated and Parsley asked the hotel to void the authorization (they obliged), even though they allegedly explained he had not been charged.  

"He was still upset and called police while he was threatening to drive his truck through the lobby," Christian said. Parsley was told to go outside and then moved his truck to face the lobby, which Christian then alerted the police to.  

According to the police report Parsley said he crashed the truck because "they thought he was bluffing, and he proved he wasn't." Police arrested him and charged him with assault and malicious injury to property.

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