Is this stealing?

We havent had a good philosophical Jerry Spring free for all since the fight over Adelson cancelling comps on short notice.

So how about this. Is this stealing:

Case A: As you are leaving the hotel after your stay, you take the UNUSED soaps, shampos, cleanex from your room and stuff it in your bags.

Case B: You ask the maid outside your room to give you some extra soaps, shampoos, cleanex from her cart, you tip her $5, and instead of using these at the hotel, you stuff them in your bags to take home.

What say you cousins?

Soap and shampoo have always been considered complimentaries and taking the existing ones from your room is usually expected by the hotel. Taking rolls of toilet paper or boxes of kleenex is probably frowned upon and is a petty theft that would never be prosecuted.

As for taking extras from the maid for the purpose of taking home, I once again would think it would be a very petty theft that would never be prosecuted. The shampoo and soap is many times sold in the gift shop.

you would have gotten a more spirited debate if you had made it about smuggling food out of the buffet in a zip lock bag than taking shampoos

#1, I'm not your cousin.

Case A. The only way to know for sure is to ask to see a much more expensive room. Any of the CONSUMABLES that are IDENTICAL in both rooms are part of the rooms. Any consumables that vary in quality between the two rooms were intended to be transferred to you.

Case B. Yes, that's wrong. But it may fall under some other law other than theft; it might only have a civil remedy. But it's more idiotic than it is wrong.

Yes.

Is taking a couple of cookies in a napkin or an apple or a banana away from the buffet, stealing?

If not, what about a plastic ziploc bag filled with meat or seafood?

Yea, those seasoned citizens can pack enough away to feed a family of four. At upwards of 4 muffins and a few cookies, those blue hairs really live high on the hog.

Bathroom supplies, are you kidding? I take them everytime, but I leave the towels.

DonDiego tucks-away among his clothes any extra coffee-packets which he hasn't used that day, and absconds with the entire collection of Joe at the conclusion of his trip, . . . unless that is stealing, . . . in which case, he doesn't.

So I ask, what is the bigger crime-1) a person who eats what they put on their plate and who takes a couple of cookies as they leave- or- 2) the person who goes back multiple times for food, eats only part of what they get each time, leaving a table full of partially eaten off of plates? One might be perceived as stealing while the other I not only call wasteful but criminal. If I were the food manager I'd say give me the cookie "thieves" every time.

I have a collection of hotel bathroom shampoos from all around the world.
We even take a few cocktail glasses from the casinos.

I once went to a buffet and ate a bunch of crab legs. I didn't pooh before leaving the property.

However that wasn't a problem the one time I went to the Circus Circus buffet.