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Bed Jumping Banned 17

Posted by samzenpus from the one-fell-off-and-bonked-his-head dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We are able to be the first to report that the practice of “bed jumping” has been banned by most major US hotel chains. From the article: 'The new internet sensation of bed jumping has cost the hospitality industry almost $52,000,000.00 in the last quarter alone. Most customers are not aware of the high cost of commercial mattresses. While manufactures are prepared for children to “bed jump,” the mattresses are not designed for jumpers over ~100lbs. Preliminary tests show that a mattress needs to be replaced after only 10-15 adult jumpers. In the current economic market, it is not feasible for our members to absorb this high cost. The ban is meant to prevent hotels from adding a “jumping charge” to every room they book, which would increase the rate an average of $4 for every night.'"

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  • So much for my "circus clown and trapeze artist" themed roleplay this weekend. I wonder if our sexually active gymnast population is going to take this lying down.
  • Clearly the hotels could increase their income by offering optional in-room trampolines!
  • What about fat people having sex? Probably just as detrimental.

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I am fat, you insensitive clod!

  • because I heard the fad was started by hotel chains to increase business. Source [foxnews.com]

  • Just how much could these mattresses cost anyway, and what possible justification is their for buying them at this inflated rate rather than just going with regular consumer-grade mattresses and replacing them more often?

    • More important, why is there a difference in consumer versus commercial grade mattresses? I mean, take a vacuum cleaner for example. A commercial vacuum gets used for 8-12 hours a day, 5-7 days a week. My home vacuum cleaner gets used once a week for a couple hours. My $50 vacuum cleaner would last about 3 weeks in a hotel, so I can understand that there can and should be a fundamental difference in how they are built. But hotel mattresses get slept on just as much as my mattress at home. There is no differ
  • Welp, it looks like all my kids are doomed to a life of crime... cuz that's the first thing they do when they arrive at a new hotel.
  • Great. Now we have to add to the story of the 5 monkeys "And lawyers in front of the mommy and said ' They were jumping right on the bed'" and then something about paying fees for having fun Stop screwing up my childhood!
  • From First Church of Atheism? Anonymous December 16th, 2009 at 10:46 am Nice try, except that “the US Hospitality Trade Association” appears not to exist, and there is nothing about this in any news feed anywhere. All the links on the web point back to this one page. So either provide a source for the story or you’re a liar.

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