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Woman & Friends May Have Been Targeted by Their Airbnb Host

#airbnb#polaris#sextrafficking#knives#legos
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0:00 [Music] so guys if you had to stay at an airbnb what's the what's the most terrifying thing that could possibly happen camera's in it and then somebody breaks in tries to kill us not bad if someone's been in the closet and they wait till the last minute for us to sleep so they can ████ stick their dicks in our mouths oh my wow god but that might be nice the rate's really good they bait you in and then like the cleaning fee is like 2x the rate and most people sleep with their mouth open they're like ah didn't jam a ████ into it there you go uh maybe having an airbnb in a very remote place that's kind of scary too because why i don't know it's just an implication hold you hostage ransom because nobody knows where the ████ you're at i think so a woman in florida she went to stay at an airbnb in tulum

0:50 mexico oh i liked her hoping to have a fun vacation instead once they got there the main guest and her friends believed they were about to become sex trafficking victims oh my god like it was it was the way the setup was so there was mysterious uh splatters of paint on the door which she thought looked like blood but she's like maybe i'm being ████ dramatic and ████ right so she contacts the concierge and she is told there's no cause for alarm it's paint and then you know but that was her first warning sign she's like okay maybe i'm being ████ crazy but whatever i'm in a different place i'm staying in airbnb so i just want to be careful yeah and you're looking forward to a good time you don't want to have a reason to go back home you're getting ready to take good instagram pictures and stuff you're there to take the graham photos let's be real we all know what to loom's for yeah seaweed yeah mostly seaweed in the summer you're not

1:40 swimming in those beaches uh because you like how the water is no you're swimming in there hey there it is um so then all of a sudden you know they realized there's no way to lock the bedroom that's alarming like um so there's keypads right and they weren't set for the rooms it would essentially give everyone access to the rooms at any time so you couldn't lock it because they're all that keypad but you can't lock it also even like the front door is it a scene it's like a home but then there's no bedroom so you could lock the front door right but you couldn't lock the bedrooms inside of the domicile okay that's not i'm not i'm not triggered yet yeah there's a lot of homes like that but they thought that was weird okay okay that was weird um the third problem happened three days into the stay when an unknown man claiming to be a security guard started standing in front of the house

2:30 and just waiting that's weird did he have a security sign on his t-shirt but that's easy he's getting it on the back of his teeth oh the back okay okay all right yeah and then he had he had that uh fbi shirt in the front okay your favorite body inspector yeah yeah okay little sus little little sauce but it checked out they actually looked them up he was with the female body inspectors so it was totally fine on the up and up so then um she reaches out again she's like yo what's with the security guard so she reaches out and um to the airbnb like messaging yeah to the concierge and the owner no response oh spooky so she and her friends maybe a little dramatically go to bed with knives next to their um pillows okay what if they stab themselves because they roll over and they ████ go like this on the pillow huge cause of normal deaths yeah happens all the time so three of them died that

3:21 way and that's the end of the article that's the article that's what happens it's crazy um these pieces were dramatic um no so so then they checked out the very next day and it wasn't until they contacted airbnb directly and said the concierge instead of talking to the host right she heard back from the homeowner who only offered her a 67 refund when the total um was six hundred seventy one dollars man i could have got her a huge hookup dude she she's stupid escapes um she then uh leaves a bad review right and noticed that her review got deleted how right uh they don't know they're trying to find out so how the ████ is airbnb cleaning this up well when they when she shared the experience online with others other women came out with similar

4:11 accusations against the same exact owner and property and after receiving a string of bad reviews the owner changed their name and profile picture on it and then they just created another one with the same ████ house uh probably but but they yeah they like they said they changed their name and profile picture so they're still on there how did they almost get sex traffic though well they don't know because they just thought they thought it was a weird house as ████ it's getting closer and closer but there's not that one defining oh there's a dude standing outside it's like almost security for the house and then nobody can confirm that like why would you have that and also fellow women specifically having other complaints or reviews that were deleted or something but you know what the weird part is right they all got away yeah no they got only the ones that left reviews yeah yeah but the thing is like there's no there's no successful attempt but you wouldn't know that's that's because no no no no here here's the thing right

5:02 they should they suck at being abductors all these people are not aggressive they don't pull the trigger fair fair they're too nervous to pull their pussyfoot yeah yeah why why all these people got away they're writing all these reviews they're tattling on them yeah you're gonna tell them you might as well have you as my sex driver geek victim maybe just keep your friends close but keep your enemies close oh that's interesting but they're strangers how they enemies now they are because they listen to better oh okay okay okay or maybe they're like they're watching through cameras and they're like ████ these ████ are sleeping with knives oh yeah yeah yeah why do we keep why do we keep leaving knives in the house and like they're just like what if they roll over and kill themselves three of them died that way i would be asleep i'll be afraid to sleep with a knife or something i would too bro i want to under the pillow

5:54 i move around way too much when i sleep i pull my trigger fingers way too much do all kinds of weird ████ with my hands at night because my hands are falling asleep ████ wake up with my knives all like all over my arms and ████ all bleeding issues i remember going to sleep with markers as a kid i woke up ████ color in the whole ████ bed i remember i forgot what happened by slipping markers and the caps fell off and then ████ there's ████ marker marks on my pillowcase my neck all over the place i like how bart passed out dead asleep is the same as bart completely awake with legos [Laughter] he's like i'm getting carried away over what's going on i burned the house down and he's like well i was playing with legos one thing led to another and then oopsie poopsie it's all on fire you know when you just get into a flow yep you're playing with legos the way that he tried to relate to us yesterday with that and we're all like

6:44 what are you ████ talking about when you go deep in legos and you ruin everything one thing leads to another you know you know that phrase you're doing coke everywhere dude ████ up his rc car so good ████ you guys your video earlier video reference hopefully this is an order it never is it's fine whatever we'll deal with it later i never blamed him i deserved it so the reason why honorable friends the reason why maybe these women were a little on edge right is because in 2018 uh there was a reported incident that police in toronto stated that they noticed a growing trend of airbnb rentals being used for human trafficking so this is kind of out there like following two recent arrests in the greater toronto area and that's just toronto right in 2020 airbnb ramped up their efforts to combat this by joining forces with a service called polaris which is a trafficking non-profit also the owner of slingshot oh really the

7:35 three-wheeled car polaris though i think it is i think it's dope thermoses dope ████ um sport thermoses for your water yes very good it's a conglomerate it's nice oh it's the same polaris that did the cars no it's i don't know this is why you could trick a dancer do whatever you want that's why zoolander had that bit about you could assassinate the ████ prime minister of micronesia yeah with the ████ dancer because the do whatever the ████ you absolutely want we're the ████ best assassins yeah because you don't even know what's going on you passed a lie detector test having been a murderer and they're like he doesn't even know what's going on can you get back to the the girls in the knives that killed themselves no i think we're gonna stay on this one right uh yeah so so uh listen you're not even reading half the article dude i'm making it up it's a blank sheet of paper i made this all up wholesale not paper

8:26 [Laughter] can you hurry up so the rental company faced criticism because it wasn't doing enough to combat the problem of sex trafficking in response airbnb rolled out this aggressive plan combined with polaris and that this included in-person host training according to usa today this would help the host community identify signals or triggers and the nature and style of the reservation like little hints that maybe you could notice when you're trying to book it yeah it's crazy how prevalent this is because when we did our writer's retreat remember i think it was like manhattan beach or some ████ they had a play card yeah it was a regular hotel like marriott or whatever and then it's there's like signs like if you see signs of sex trafficking that's a little different that's a little different though because it's like a hotel so it's

9:16 like hotels and airports too but that's what seemed like a pretty good area it was just like a regular area would bring him through though it wasn't even next to an airport either it was like the most randomest hotel yeah it wasn't like in tulum or mexico or anything like that what are those happenings i mean really yeah there's gonna be grounds for like a class action lawsuit against airbnb or some ████ though well there's no real damages i mean nothing really happened so so they're not even suing or anything they're just trying to let people know and be aware in fact that's actually why i brought this article up just because this is kind of ████ we always think about the cameras and stuff like that airbnb but like think about ████ like this is like a whole nother level yeah well so canada reports two incidents or or uh arrests people there's obviously uh some other like forum or conversational discussion thread that's talking about other women that have had problems the same blah blah so what about like stats or reports on

10:06 uh missing people or things that were where there was quote unquote successful human trafficking yeah yeah it obviously wasn't this one because they're very unsex unsuccessful they're not good at getting girls there they're probably a startup that they're just practicing i feel like they're like those robbers and all right this one i'm gonna rob this house they're like no no that's too it's too nice okay are we gonna rob it this time are they like they're like 90s robbers like 90s surfer robbers really whoa dude we're gonna have to rob these guys huh bro okay yeah but i'm kind of hungry dawg okay dude we'll let's eat and then we'll rob the house dude and they keep failing you know

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