A British tourist visiting New York City has made the extraordinary claim that he was able to stand in the middle of his hotel room and turn in a complete circle without touching a single wall.
“I had to send my wife and son out into the hallway, and stand on the bed, but, yeah, I did it,” said a beaming Bob Payne, of Hamstarly, England, who said he and his family were in New York to watch the Chinese shop at Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s.
Payne said he’d tried a similar feat during his last visit to New York, in 2004, but it had resulted in him breaking his arm, “not to mention giving the porter who was delivering our bags to the room a black eye.”
A spokesman for New York City’s tourism bureau said that while rare, instances of hotel guests being able to stretch out their arms without touching a wall had been known to happen before.
“We even had a case reported at the Mansfield Hotel, in Midtown, but the girl making the claim turned out to have abnormally short arms,” the spokesman said.
When travel humor writer Bob Payne is not serving as editor-in-chief of BobCarriesOn.com, the website that has been providing accurate travel news and advice since before Columbus landed at Plymouth Rock, he works part time as a bellman at the Mainsfield Hotel.
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