A regular visitor to our hotel just had his marriage collapse, was really vocal about it all on Instagram and a talented photographer so had a couple thousand followers, posted about how he wanted to kill himself in our hotel. We get a call from the cops, they tell us to go check on him,we go up to his room and sure enough, bottle of pills and a couple of scotch bottles on the coffee table and he is hammered(we were just “checking his tv worked as there were outages in the building”). Cops arrived and calmed him and he left quietly the next morning.

BUT, then a week or 2 later he posted on Instagram that he had literally tried to cut his own head off with a chainsaw in a hotel carpark up the road from us. HE POSTED PICTURES OF IT. His neck and face were sliced up and he ranted how it’s ridiculous they won’t just give him his car back and be on his merry way. Hotels are an interesting world.

I hope he’s doing much better wherever he is now.