Swingers\' party at hotel angers soccer parents
\'We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip\'
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:13 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. - Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year
\'We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip\'
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:13 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2006
ORLANDO, Fla. - Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year
On a funny side note, there was almost a similar situation in Ogden this weekend. When we checked into the Comfort Suites on Friday night, the place was overrun with a teenage church retreat. Thankfully they were checking out that night and weren\'t around to see the fun on New Year\'s Eve.
Oh, that was too funny. Horrid that it had to happen, but funny. And I agree, no one asked the \"swingers\" their opinion. Plus it stand to reason, 1st one to book holds seniority. If the swingers booked 1st, they had all the right to do what they wanted as long as it was within the confines of the law.
Let\'s see, 13 and younger wandering the hotel on New Years Eve un escorted by parents. Where were the parents and why were they not doing a better job of keeping track of the kids? There are far scarier things in hotels late at night than swingers. Recently, right here in Orlando a pedifile was arrested after attacking a teen age girl.
We agree with orsun. There are just too many parents who don\'t supervise their kids and then get offended when someone catches them doing something wrong. I would not have talked to a teacher the way kids do now days. And I guarantee my kids would not be running around the hotel late at night.
I also agree with a comment someone made that in Europe there are naked women in the 3rd page of a newspaper and the kids can see it. They didn\'t look traumatized. We have to get out of the puritanical way of thinking.
Just our opinion. :-)
I also agree with a comment someone made that in Europe there are naked women in the 3rd page of a newspaper and the kids can see it. They didn\'t look traumatized. We have to get out of the puritanical way of thinking.
Just our opinion. :-)
We just got back from a trip to Orlando and stayed in a hotel near Epcot. Children were outside running up and down the sidewalks until 2:00 am every night. Where the hell are the parents? We checked out early because we we could not get enough sleep. What has happened to parenting in America?
If I may interject something here with regard to the Orlando swingers\' New Year\'s Eve party. Several people have lambasted the \"parents\" of the children exposed to the swingers\' activities. I\'d like to take a different approach. Don\'t \"swingers\" have any common sense?
For starters, the writer of the piece didn\'t make it clear whether the parents were or weren\'t with the children during the time of the exposure. Based on an \"adult\" reporting the incident(s) to hotel management though (Mr. Young, I believe), I\'ll take it that there might have been at least one situation where the parents were with the children. Besides, it doesn\'t say the the kids were out late at night. It doesn\'t make any specific statement about when the incident(s) took place.
It does say that the swingers did their activities \"in front\" of the children. Didn\'t they have the common sense to notice youngens around and be discrete? Didn\'t the hotel management have enough sense to realize that swingers would probably be exposing themselves and therefore cover up the glass surrounding the ballroom where the majority of the event took place? And didn\'t the swingers\' group organizers have any sense to address those issues before, or even during, the event to make sure that anyone (child or adult) who doesn\'t want to \"participate\" in their enjoyment wouldn\'t have to be exposed to it (no pun intended, but hey!)?
On the other hand, shouldn\'t a parent feel in a high level hotel like a Crowne Plaza that their kid could safely go down to the lobby vending machine (or whatever) without having to monitor their every movement? Doesn\'t that instill a sense of maturity in an age group (around 13 I think I recall from the story) that is virtually moments away from \"adulthood\"?
From this perspective, there\'s plenty of blame to go around, except for the kids.
Something else needs to be said here which is how people \"read into\" news coverage. It was quite interesting to see comments about the \"impression\" that the article made regardless of what it did or didn\'t actually say.
For starters, the writer of the piece didn\'t make it clear whether the parents were or weren\'t with the children during the time of the exposure. Based on an \"adult\" reporting the incident(s) to hotel management though (Mr. Young, I believe), I\'ll take it that there might have been at least one situation where the parents were with the children. Besides, it doesn\'t say the the kids were out late at night. It doesn\'t make any specific statement about when the incident(s) took place.
It does say that the swingers did their activities \"in front\" of the children. Didn\'t they have the common sense to notice youngens around and be discrete? Didn\'t the hotel management have enough sense to realize that swingers would probably be exposing themselves and therefore cover up the glass surrounding the ballroom where the majority of the event took place? And didn\'t the swingers\' group organizers have any sense to address those issues before, or even during, the event to make sure that anyone (child or adult) who doesn\'t want to \"participate\" in their enjoyment wouldn\'t have to be exposed to it (no pun intended, but hey!)?
On the other hand, shouldn\'t a parent feel in a high level hotel like a Crowne Plaza that their kid could safely go down to the lobby vending machine (or whatever) without having to monitor their every movement? Doesn\'t that instill a sense of maturity in an age group (around 13 I think I recall from the story) that is virtually moments away from \"adulthood\"?
From this perspective, there\'s plenty of blame to go around, except for the kids.
Something else needs to be said here which is how people \"read into\" news coverage. It was quite interesting to see comments about the \"impression\" that the article made regardless of what it did or didn\'t actually say.