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Effective-Elevator83 t1_jal8aib wrote

Reply to comment by eaturvegetables in Walsall pupils stranded after hotel ‘shreds 41 passports’ by Mighty_L_LORT

The “most” reasonable scenario I’ve found is that the hotel might use a bulk shred service. The passports got dropped in the locked bin for…reasons? Then the service stopped by and replaced the full bin with an empty bin.

The hotel and tourists might not notice until it’s time to check out.

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Beautiful_Fee1655 t1_jan1454 wrote

Most shred bins (for pickup by a service) only have a thin slit opening suitable for inserting at most a few pages at a time.

It would take an intentional act to feed 41 passports into a bin like that.

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Effective-Elevator83 t1_jan1pbc wrote

Obviously, the only two possibilities are malice or ignorance.

The most plausible scenario I’ve read for ignorance goes like this: 42 kids leave their passports at the office desk. The hotel safe is too small for 42 passports. The receptionist drops them in a trash bag to keep them all together. Hotel staff finds the trash bag full of passports and dumps them in the shred bin.

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Beautiful_Fee1655 t1_janfv5v wrote

More likely, hotel staff opens the "trash" bag, and without asking anyone purposefully feeds the passports, one by one, into the shred bin. Not ignorance in my opinion.

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