The New York Times recently reported on the story of Nick Burchill, who has had his lifetime ban from Fairmont Empress hotel in British Columbia lifted, after 17 years.
When Nick visited Victoria, British Columbia, in 2001, he promised some friends that he would bring them back some pepperoni.
His hotel room had no fridge so he left the meat on a table next to an open window and went for a walk.
While he was away a flock of seagulls descended on the meat and gorged themselves in his absence.
When he returned, the birds tried to make a dart for it but ended up smashing into lamps and damaging the curtains. “They’d been eating that for about five hours, and you can imagine what the room looked like,” he told CBC Radio.
After the trip Nick was permanently barred from the hotel premises. However, in March he decided to send the hotel a letter explaining how much he had matured in the subsequent 17 years.
According to the New York Times, Nick received a call from the hotel’s gm two days later. The ban was lifted on condition that he left the pepperoni in Novia Scotia, and closed the hotel room window when he left.
