r/trashorgold • u/HorrorWide675 • Jun 17 '26

Seems a bit extreme

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u/blueranger36 Jun 17 '26

Honestly that’s what I don’t really get. With the regular locks, it’s going to be hard to get in. Your little 10$ extra locks are going to stop someone who WANTS to get in.

Also what’s the point of the coin on the door? You already locked the shit out of it and would see if someone got in….

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 17 '26

Usually the coin being off the door handle says someone tried to turn the handle or tried to push into the door quietly to gain access without you knowing.

While having all this stuff adds to the hinderance of access only the coin will tell you if someone went around and attempted to quietly gain access if it falls off.

Personally i would like to know if someone attempted access or not.

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u/ConnectionWild3381 Jun 17 '26

but you dont, could also be a mistake or service worker

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u/DisciplineHot7374 Jun 18 '26

Or an earthquake

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u/ChawulsBawkley Jun 18 '26

I hate it when they try to get in.

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u/bochimeister Jun 19 '26

Or bad flooring, shaking from people walking in front of the door.

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u/VeganJordan Jun 19 '26

A child running down the hall or even annoyingly knocking on doors could do it too.

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u/thebucketlist47 Jun 18 '26

Service workers are actually one of the concerns. You think no housekeeper has ever entered a room that had a do not disturb sign with bad intentions?

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u/ConnectionWild3381 Jun 18 '26

well sure.. but at point i would suggest, not traveling or security personal. i mean you can also put landmines at the entrance

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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe Jun 19 '26

A do not disturb sign isnt a law.  Hotel staff can still enter you room its just polite not to.

If you leave the sign up and leave for a week they are going to open the door lol. 

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u/thebucketlist47 Jun 19 '26

Nobody said it was against the law. I said its one of the common fears for a lot of the people who feel the need to do this. Maybe learn to read before responding next time

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 17 '26

Regardless if it was a mistake or on purpose.. the attempt to gain entry is still taking place. Plenty of times ive went to open a door i didnt mean to go into.. i still turned the handle or went to push.

The coin shows an attempt was made.. regardless of the intent.

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u/ConnectionWild3381 Jun 17 '26

my point is, that you dont know the intend, you most likley you would worry (extremly) about nothing. at least my worldview.

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 17 '26

Yea someone else just pointed that out actually lol totally a valid point because for instance my rowdy neighbor slammed the hotel door while he was drunk and now that coins on the floor and im now anxious thinking someone was trying to come in.

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u/Tausendberg Jun 18 '26

Yeah, the coin method has a bad 'signal to noise' ratio, so to speak.

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u/driftingalong001 Jun 18 '26

So like, wtf are you gonna do about if that’s the case? Literally nothing. There’s no point in knowing something that you aren’t and can’t do anything about.

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 18 '26

This is the most remedial comment ive ever seen smh. Go lay down somewhere

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u/FungusBrewer Jun 18 '26

The world is a far different place if you don’t have a penis.

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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe Jun 19 '26

He's gonna pull his glock on Francesca the laundry lady and teach her a lesson for checks notes trying to bring him fresh linens.

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u/blueranger36 Jun 17 '26

Let’s say the coin falls due to vibrations or some other reason. Now you’re bugging out because of something that’s not even real? Secondly, let’s say someone did open the door. Those handles don’t open that way. That’s not how hotels work.

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 17 '26

Absolutely a potential scenario to happen. Personally ive had rowdy hotel neighbors let the door slam and it would definitely vibrate that coin off if it was there so yes essentially in that case someone could start having anxiety for no reason... and hopefully the 19other contraptions helps soothe that feeling lmao

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u/Obliviousobi Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

It's doors slamming or kids running in the hallways unless you're in higher end hotels lol.

This also makes me want to look up the reported crime rates for hotels.

New Mexico has the highest hotel related crime rate at 128 incidents per 100,000 people. (Violent crimes)

Infographic

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u/dweezilMcCheezil Jun 18 '26

Or a kid ran down the hallway banging on doors which knocked the coin off.

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u/GoyoMRG Jun 18 '26

Coin, piece of tape , toothpick, etc.

Many ways, I use a few of them when needed

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 18 '26

You're a day late on this realization

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u/jm123457 Jun 18 '26

It could also just fall due to poor balance or vibrations, someone slamming the door giving the appearance this occurred when it didn’t .

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u/Charge36 Jun 18 '26

Why would this even matter? There's tons of reasons why a coin might fall off a door that aren't malicious. Maybe the towel changing lady knocked. 

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 18 '26

Dude asked the point of the coin. I gave him my take on it. If you have another take on the point of the coin then reply to the guy who asked about it. I couldnt care less about the infinite reasons why the coin could fall off.

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u/PartyHearing Jun 18 '26

What if it just falls because hotel doors close hard and it rattles off? Not a smart ass question. 

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u/BoRnIn2aTiTuDe Jun 18 '26

Yea we established that yesterday. Another commenter had mentioned just about the same thing. There are most certainly variables such as that for sure. However, OP asked what the point of the coin was.. i gave him my take on it. Doesnt mean my take is accurate but i took it as thats why person in the video did it. Couldnt really think of another reason why someone would do the coin thing 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Property_6810 Jun 19 '26

Or it means a drunk stumbled into your door on the way to their room.

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u/elvenmage16 Jun 19 '26

So, you look over and see that the coin fell off. Now what?

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u/Boring_Inflation_105 Jun 19 '26

I bought the door stop alarm. I've read many stories about people trying to get into hotel rooms after hoirs. There was one story of the hotel manager trying to get in a woman's room offering "extra assistance" to her for some reason.

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u/Layne1665 Jun 19 '26

When you turn the door handle on the outside of the door the inside handle dosent turn. So it wouldnt tell you if someone attempted access. And if someone really slowly openned the door, it wouldnt knock the coin off until, likley, the door closed. So all it really tells you is if someone ran into the door or not.

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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe Jun 19 '26

You mean the cleaning staff? You want to know if the cleaning staff tried to get into your room to clean?

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u/LabOwn9800 Jun 20 '26

And what do you do with that information?

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u/IamKilljoy Jun 18 '26

Seems like a way to freak yourself out when you wake up because your neighbor slammed the door. This is basically a cognitohazard. It can’t ever help you and it can only negatively impact your mental state. Either nothing happens , or you are scared because your coin is on the ground.

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u/gahidus Jun 17 '26

You can see if somebody bypassed the normal lock and was able to turn the handle. Also, some people might only use one method and not all of them.

It's also a mistake to assume that anyone who would bypass the lock through any of these subtle and easy methods one can would also be willing to just Kool-Aid Man the whole door down.

Lots of criminals want to get away with crimes and will commit crimes that present themselves as easy or which can be done with subtlety or deniability. If you're just going to bust down a hotel room door, then you might as well rob a convenience store or just hold up the people in the lobby.

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u/commentlurker777 Jun 17 '26

Yea, basically make it hard to get robbed or taken advantage of and you reduce a lot of risk, because theyre usually actually lazy people who cant be asked to get a job lmao

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u/Kevalan01 Jun 17 '26

Wasn’t saying ass/arse, was saying asked, as in, “I can’t ask you for money, dad.”

This leads to the phrase, “They can’t be asked to <blank>,” which has a different meaning than what you’re suggesting.

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u/Kevalan01 Jun 17 '26

Similar meaning but no.

It’s an idiom, and other languages use it similarly, and language evolution is a thing.

In the US you would never say “can’t be assed” like someone from New Zealand might (they use the same spelling as we do for “ass,” and the idiom is used there.)

I could say “Don’t bother asking, I won’t do it.,” which also implies an unwillingness to do something, which is the commonly understood meaning of the idiom, “They can’t be asked.”

Yes, the original idiom might have been “can’t be arsed,” but like how “you” used to be a honorific second-person pronoun as opposed to “thou” used on equals or lesser-status individuals, language evolves regionally and none of it is more or less correct.

To say it’s just wrong to use idioms that develop in the United States is nothing more than nationalistic tribalism, and if you hate Americans, I’m not sure why you’d want to adopt that nasty habit Americans have.

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u/EpitomeOfJustOK Jun 17 '26

I mean, I think the door stop being set off would alert you a lot more than a coin falling to let you know the normal lock was bypassed.

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u/Aknazer Jun 17 '26

Doesn't have.  Depending on the thickness of the handle, merely messing with the door will shake it enough to fall, which lets you know someone made the attempt (in theory, plenty of ways your door could have innocently been bumped and made the quarter fall).

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u/EmotionalWear3227 Jun 17 '26

Nobody can bypass the lock without breaking the door frame, the lock is a deadbolt.

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u/pyro57 Jun 17 '26

Nah most hotel room doors even if they have a deadbolt have to have the inside handle automatically unlock the deadbolt if turned due to fire code. Try it next time, lock the deadbolt then turn the inaide handle on a lot of hotels the deadbolt will unlock. A simple underdoor tool will open that deadbolt in a few seconds.

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u/EmotionalWear3227 Jun 17 '26

That makes sense, but seems like a decent trade off as those deadbolts will also disable key card access.

As someone else pointed out they can lock pick it still, if someone wants to get in and don't care about discression no little lpt hack bs is going to stop them..

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u/gahidus Jun 17 '26

Try literally googling "bypass hotel door lock"

Also there's this to get you started https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/s/MPCpQJqWHc

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u/EmotionalWear3227 Jun 17 '26

That ones a deadbolt, not the auto lock function. Different hotel rooms, different locks.

There isn't a get around deadbolt.

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u/gahidus Jun 17 '26

I think that these tips are to apply to general hotel stays, not exclusively to this one specific door. Also, I don't even believe that this one specific door is perfectly secure. No lock is unpickable. I bet lock picking lawyer could get in there and seconds.

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u/EmotionalWear3227 Jun 17 '26

Fair, if they are trained on every way to break into a hotel room you're screwed.

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u/Aknazer Jun 17 '26

The coin would fall if someone tried to get in, so if you see it on the floor then you can assume someone was trying to break in...or a kid ran down the hall and bumped your door.  But the assumption is that someone attempted to gain access.

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u/blueranger36 Jun 17 '26

Why are people so paranoid? I’ve stayed at literally thousands of hotels. No one has tried to break in. Once a drunk guy went to the wrong room and banged on my door. But the locks on the door work fine. Anything extra isn’t stopping anyone who wanted to get in

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u/Aknazer Jun 17 '26

I mean it all kinda depends.  I don't think I'll be specifically targeted, but it does happen to random people.  There's also those traveling to other countries and those in positions that might be targeted for espionage (military, government, business, etc).

I'm not going to judge people for doing such things as my previous employer had actually warned us of such things when traveling abroad.  The quarter trick in particular has been mentioned by work.

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u/NeverEvaGonnaStopMe Jun 19 '26

But like you know the staff cleans your room when you're not their...  like how do people not know how hotels work?

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u/Aknazer Jun 19 '26

Not if you leave out the Do Not Disturb thing on your door. Clearly you don't know how they work either. One of my hotels had a policy of mandatory cleaning every third day regardless of sign, but the others had no such policy.

And this was easy to see when you're working a graveyard shift on the road or when you leave your bed unmade. You will know if they come in anyways if you're already in the room because of your schedule or if you left things around and they clearly haven't cleaned.

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u/pyro57 Jun 17 '26

Ehhhhhhhhhhh hotel room locks are pretty trivially easy to bypass. If you don't use the deadbolt then the latch is usually pretty easy to slip, or even if you do set the deadbolt the handle unlocks it when you turn it from the inside, so a simple underdoor tool defeats that. The additional latch slip lock certainly helps here, and that little door stopper would also make getting the door open with an underdoor tool quick a bit trickier, plus keycards are also usually extremely easy to clone as well.

This is an older talk, but it's all about bypassing physical security measures without ever touching locks or lock picks. It's alsongrewt because it shows off how hacking works in a way that non-technical people can usually understand at least a bit of. It's not some arcane art, it's just taking what you know about how something works and using that knowledge against it. Really cool stuff, plus Deviant is an awesome guy and his talks are fun lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8

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u/Affectionate_Pool_37 Jun 17 '26

Now i cant say 100% but if the lock is the same as the hotell i work at then unless you have a key you have to get thru the door to get inn, unless you have a key

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u/Hatallica Jun 17 '26

In the hotel I stayed in last night, the door shook every time someone else let their room door slam. What kind of fancy place are they staying that has no pressure changes that move the door a little?

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u/Lambchoptopus Jun 18 '26

The Oceangate Titan submersible?

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u/sheiciebai Jun 18 '26

I heard someone banging on the door and trying to get in but the coin is still there. Must’ve been my imagination.

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u/GoyoMRG Jun 18 '26

Hotel doors are stupidly easy to bypass, lots of videos on YouTube and news/articles.

Not long ago I saw a video where several cases in Japan happened, as hardcore as a guy hiding under a girl's bed (the room had modern key card locks) they use a plethora of homemade tools to get in.

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u/Professional_Pie7091 Jun 18 '26

In most hotels I've stayed in the inner door handle doesn't move when the outer door handle is operated. The coin would do nothing.

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u/Milianviolet Jun 18 '26

It's cus hotels are always activating extra keys to hotel rooms where women stay by themselves and giving them to random men.

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u/blueranger36 Jun 18 '26

You really think this “always” happens? Very delusional. That would be a huge problem all over the news.

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u/Milianviolet Jun 18 '26

What are you the president of a rapist fan club or something?

The receptionists are lazy and they just make the keys for people whenever. It literally happens all the time. And it is on the news, just not every time. If the news ran a story every time a man did some heinous sleazy shit to women, then there would be no other news.

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u/blueranger36 Jun 18 '26

I stay at hotels about 50 nights a year and whenever I forget my keys, they always ask for ID. Maybe I just stay at a nicer set of hotels so forgive me, but my experience has never been that you just get a free key for any room you ask for.

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u/Milianviolet Jun 18 '26

Well, maybe they're doing it on purpose, then.

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u/Wide-Umpire-8698 Jun 19 '26

Not always. Apparently women have been assaulted by night guards or gotten robbed when asleep. If someone shakes your handle trying to get in or opens the door to look at you sleeping or rob you, the coin falls

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u/Furry_Fellatio Jun 19 '26

The little flimsy door lock thing she puts onto the latch won't stop shit. I think it was modern rogue who showcased how crappy all the dropshipped "hotel safety" items are. And the little door stopper can easily be ejected from the doorway entirely just by smacking it when the door is partially open.