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Beautiful_Fee1655 t1_jan1454 wrote

Reply to comment by Effective-Elevator83 in Walsall pupils stranded after hotel ‘shreds 41 passports’ by Mighty_L_LORT

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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