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Straight to jail. Assets seized by insurance underwriter.

by xyst 5y ago

p1mrx 5y ago
Proceeds to trash jail.
- edgyquant 5y ago
  This is also a felony, a friend of mine got destruction of government property for drawing on the walls of his cell while in county jail.
rootsudo 5y ago
Not even true, at best a civil case after months and you must provide service to the defendant or defendant attorney - depending on who booked and who stayed can be different and will not proceed normally. tl;dr mostly nothing if they don't value their airbnb account.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
  At least in New York: "A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he damages property of another person in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars. Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony." https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/145.10 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/145.10 Class D non-violent felonies are worth up to seven years in prison, likely varying widely depending on the circumstances. I guess most states probably have similar statutes on the books. Whether you could get a prosecutor to charge it probably depends on the exact circumstances. I reckon you could find cases of people being charged on much less than $1M in intentional damage, though.
  - CaptainZapp 5y ago
    Good luck dragging the offender to court. Especially if she lives in a foreign country.
    - asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
      No one in the comment chain above me stipulated that the proposed violator was a foreigner. Most Airbnbs in the US are rented by domestic renters. And anyway, I'm only responding to the notion that civil action is the worst case scenario. That is plainly false. Also, yea, you can commit minor crimes that don't rise to the level of extradition then skip town. That's always been the case. So? Who is going to go to the U.S., trash an AirBNB, risk getting charged with a crime and potentially banned for life from coming back? The people who trash AirBNBs are not the same people who can travel internationally, by and large.
yaitsyaboi 5y ago
Is this a joke? It's unclear to me, a person without much understanding of the law. Aren't debtors prisons illegal?
- stickfigure 5y ago
  Vandalism is a criminal offense, and >$400 damage is a felony here in California.
  - tomcam 5y ago
    Luckily you can steal more than twice that at your local Best Buy in California and it's a misdemeanor. So take good care of your AirBnB but feel free to go to town at a Walgreen's. If you can find one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
    - olyjohn 5y ago
      I'm not seeing what your point is. The two things aren't really related. They aren't even the same crime.
markdown 5y ago
Nonsense. He's long gone back to his own country, scot free.

Straight to jail. Assets seized by insurance underwriter.

by xyst 5y ago

Straight to jail. Assets seized by insurance underwriter.

p1mrx 5y ago

Proceeds to trash jail.

edgyquant 5y ago
This is also a felony, a friend of mine got destruction of government property for drawing on the walls of his cell while in county jail.

rootsudo 5y ago

Not even true, at best a civil case after months and you must provide service to the defendant or defendant attorney - depending on who booked and who stayed can be different and will not proceed normally. tl;dr mostly nothing if they don't value their airbnb account.

asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
At least in New York: "A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he damages property of another person in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars. Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony." https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/145.10 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/145.10 Class D non-violent felonies are worth up to seven years in prison, likely varying widely depending on the circumstances. I guess most states probably have similar statutes on the books. Whether you could get a prosecutor to charge it probably depends on the exact circumstances. I reckon you could find cases of people being charged on much less than $1M in intentional damage, though.
- CaptainZapp 5y ago
  Good luck dragging the offender to court. Especially if she lives in a foreign country.
  - asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
    No one in the comment chain above me stipulated that the proposed violator was a foreigner. Most Airbnbs in the US are rented by domestic renters. And anyway, I'm only responding to the notion that civil action is the worst case scenario. That is plainly false. Also, yea, you can commit minor crimes that don't rise to the level of extradition then skip town. That's always been the case. So? Who is going to go to the U.S., trash an AirBNB, risk getting charged with a crime and potentially banned for life from coming back? The people who trash AirBNBs are not the same people who can travel internationally, by and large.

yaitsyaboi 5y ago

Is this a joke? It's unclear to me, a person without much understanding of the law. Aren't debtors prisons illegal?

stickfigure 5y ago
Vandalism is a criminal offense, and >$400 damage is a felony here in California.
- tomcam 5y ago
  Luckily you can steal more than twice that at your local Best Buy in California and it's a misdemeanor. So take good care of your AirBnB but feel free to go to town at a Walgreen's. If you can find one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
  - olyjohn 5y ago
    I'm not seeing what your point is. The two things aren't really related. They aren't even the same crime.

markdown 5y ago

Nonsense. He's long gone back to his own country, scot free.