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Subscribe to RSSThe body of missing 21-year-old Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was discovered in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The body of a woman recovered Tuesday from a water tank on the roof of a downtown Los Angeles hotel is that of 21-year-old Elisa Lam, a Canadian tourist who stayed at the hotel before she disappeared several weeks ago, police officials said late Tuesday.
At about 10:15 a.m., police were called to the Cecil Hotel. The Los Angeles Fire Department also responded. The body was removed at about 4:30 p.m. after an urban search and rescue team worked to free the remains while trying to maintain evidence, authorities on scene said.
Hotel guests had reported that the water pressure in the building was low, prompting a maintenance worker to visit tanks on the roof, where the body was found, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Sara Fayden.
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Officials were gathered on the hotel's roof at midday, and multiple emergency vehicles were parked in front of the building, including a sedan from the county coroner's officer.
LAPD homicide detectives had been investigating the disappearance of Lam, a Vancouver, B.C., resident who had stayed at the hotel during a visit to Southern California last month.
Surveillance video from the hotel had shown Lam in the hotel's elevator on Feb. 1. She seemed to push multiple buttons in the elevator, then stepped in and out and appeared to hide in a corner in what authorities described as "abnormal" behavior.
Watch: Surveillance Video
The surveillance video is the last known image of Lam, whose parents said she had called them every day until she disappeared, according to police.
Lam had stayed at the Cecil Hotel during a visit to LA that began Jan. 26, but when it came time for her to check out, she could not be found. She was last seen Jan. 31.
LAPD via Reuters
Elisa Lam of Vancouver, British Columbia, is seen in this undated handout photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department.
The water tank was about three-quarters full when the body was found, according the Sgt. Rudy Lopez of the LAPD. He said the tank's metal latch could be easily opened but added that access to the hotel's roof is secured with an alarm and lock.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said the agency was investigating the four 4-foot-by-8-foot water tanks to determine whether the hotel's water supply had been contaminated.
Fire Capt. Jaime Moore said a water sample had shown "no biohazard concerns" and that the hotel's water tanks were not connected.
Longtime hotel resident Bernard Diaz reported flooding on the fourth floor at about the time Lam disappeared, saying he heard a thump so loud one night he "fell out of bed."
The building, located near Skid Row, is described on its website as a "beautiful vintage European-style hotel built in the 1920s."
The single-room-occupancy hotel has an unusual history. "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, who was found guilty of 14 slayings in the 1980s, lived on the 14th floor for several months in 1985. And international serial killer Jack Unterweger is suspected of murdering three prostitutes during the time he lived there in 1991. He killed himself in jail in 1994.
In 1962, a female occupant jumped out of one the hotel's windows, killing herself and a pedestrian on whom she landed.
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That sucks
I am so totally grossed out.
Definitely material for a CSI episode.
Either she was drunk and somehow managed to fall in our she was murdered and thrown in.
poor lady
wilsonarden...shut up.
If they weren't connected, then what are their purpose? How old is the stale water in them? More bizzar history to add to that of the hotel.
The custodian did it and or it was an inside job. She couldn't have unlocked and turned off the alarm to the secured roof if she didn't have a key or the alarm code.
You are quite the sleuth there clarkjoebob!
It was in LA. ... Maybe the LAPD mistook her for Chis Dorner.
Detective Steamie's conclusion and what should be done:
Seems more like a case of demonic posession than anything else. This hotel has a history of bad ju ju. Serial killers and suicides? Please. Hell. One of them is even called "The Night Stalker" This case is so cut and dry. There is only one person who can deal this sort of crime in Los Angeles. Time to call in the big guns....
Time to call, from beyond the grave, Carl Kolchak.
Condolences to the family! This is for all the people talking crap when that women from NY was found dead in Turkey! Oh no, what is she doing traveling by herself in a foreign country doesn't she know that it is dangerous. She deserves dying there for being so stupid! That's right our country is so safe ,also. No one ever gets killed here! Don't leave your house, barricade yourself inside, and then all you have to worry about are your nomal everyday household accidents.....The other point is I'm glad I wasn't brushing my teeth or showering in that hotel!
Just because the exit was supposed to be locked and alarmed doesn't mean it was. Not only that, I've been to a hotel where I managed to gain access to the roof without having any alarms go off, and it wasn't through the emergency exit either. Also, I seriously doubt this girl cared about setting off alarms if her behavior was anything like the article suggests.
Creek Dog
That assumes the alarm worked and someone would have bothered to check it if it were triggered and that the door was actually locked. Inside job or just lazy hotel employees??
wilsonarden- nobody on this news blog is going to go to your website. Or if they do, they won't buy a damn thing. Begone you whore! Newsvine- BAN this poster for violation of terms already!
Anyway, back to the article.
Just think of all the people who took showers, drank the water and it was tainted with the dead girls decaying body arghhh!!!
Something is afish here- methinks it was an inside job.
Good point however, with her behavior the way it was that night, you think if anyone working there that may have a criminal past would've noticed this and targeted her as easy prey? Not to mention if they did, they would've most likely had a key and alarm code to the roof access.
Of course we're just speculating as this is what the vine is for. They'll do a DNA test on her and drill the employees until they see someone isn't reacting natural to being questioned. Ask for DNA from the person of interest and take it from there. We'll read about this again in the near future and see what the real deal is.
GM Pro...
Wilson just changes his #'s at the end of his name and will be back in no time. Just to be deleted over and over again. It's call "Free Advertisement" and with the Country it is today, don't be surprised that thousands of idiots "do" go to the site and buy items from it.
I hope that tank held water for fire fighting, not drinking...
This is how a zombie apocalypse begins...
I've stayed at this hotel and remember the water in the toilet smelled terrible, like the rest of LA water. I thought it was just smelly city water.
so a body was in the hotel water tanks for THREE WEEKS until guests started complaining about the low water pressure and there was NO biohazard?
bull.... shxt.....
Euw! That is so gross.
Hotel guests had reported that the water pressure in the building was low, prompting a maintenance worker to visit tanks on the roof, where the body was found, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Sara Fayden.
If that was the case ,how come water it's not contaminated ,imagine shower and brushing your teeth ,I do not believe the contamination was tested efficiently or they just cover up .Also why they try to blame her for acting abnormal ,maybe she did have e few drinks or may be she wasn't familiar with elevators ,some people are claustrophobic and they get scared.I saw a lady in NY hotel she was waiting for other guests to enter in elevators before she gets in,she stated that she cannot be by herself .
Condolences to her family , sad very sad situation ,another good example of not to travel by your self ever .No bravery in this century .
Regular news these days is worse than anything Enquirer magazine prints.
Conspiracy theory: INSIDE JOB.
"Here you go maam. Would you like a wedge of lemon for you ice water? Something to tone down the taste of corpse perhaps?"
Guests were complaining of low water pressure, so the maintenance man went to the water tanks to check, yet they claim the tanks weren't connected. Also, they decided to check if the water supply was contaminated, water that isn't connected so it doesn't need to be tested for contamination, which it wasn't, even after a dead body was in it.
So many lies.
I can see that pedestrian in heaven "It was a beautiful day then all of the sudden some B++++ falls from the sky killing me.............I mean who throws away a perfectly good girl like that?"
wonder if their coffee tasted funny in the morning...hurl...i'm never gon'a get that tanked...
I will have to put this hotel on my list of must stays, like the one in Estes Park in CO where Steven King wrote the Shining.
bet the water tasted like chinese"take out" !
Tasted like #4. "SumYunGal"?
Hey Wilson, I know of a really nice hotel in LA if you are ever in town.
On another note:
Why can't Newsvine authorities just DELETE the user account of http://wilsonarden11232.newsvine.com/ so this frigging SPAM crap of his/hers goes away. Same postings all over Newsvine for this crap spam.
Just delete the user please.
even more - just refuse to let a post with that particular website reference BE posted. Then wilson and the other incarnations will just dry up and go away until the next website name gets entered. IT'S NOT ROCKEY SCIENCE (could start by not letting any wilsonarden XXXX REGISTER)
Sounds like she got tanked once too often.
Aww! Bad Pun Alert !!
And the one about Chinese Take-Out, too !
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Sorry to be so damn obvious, but... If you are a petite woman, and you desire to maintain your Peace-Of-Mind, stay away from Skid Row !! Every city has their Skid Row, and the Internet Search Engines make it super simple to find out what parts of town are dangerous. It is up to the person to make the decision to STAY AWAY from these areas ! Sweet Missy wasn't doing anything wrong, but there was some NutJob who selected Missy as the next target.
Rest In Peace, Elisa.
!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanna see something creepy ?????????????????
Do a google search on these terms: "mail online uk elisa lam" (without the quotations.) Click on the first link. Scroll to the bottom of the UK website to see the entire elevator video.
But seeing the entire video isn't important. Pay particular attention to the first few seconds. Watch how the doors are about to close but then snap back open. The poor girl didn't even notice the doors were locked open till much later. Kinda creepy when you first notice it. It's like something out of "Paranormal Activity." Or atleast "Poltergeist."
What I thot was odd, Imagine A ToeGarden, was that weird Hula Dance she goes into at the 2:00 mark of the Daily Mail vid. JUST VERY ODD. She might have been under the influence of drugs. OR, maybe she was interacting with some Psychic entity in that motel.
There ARE multiple species of bodyless beings who feed on the energy given off of other beings who are feeling negative feelings. And these bodyless beings are good at seeking out an Easy Mark who dishes out heavy doses of negative emotions; and the bodyless beings will catalyze the negative behavior by doing things around the Easy Mark to set them off feeling Fear, Anger, Indecision, all the other negative emotions.
Clearly, this frightened woman peeked out the door of the elevator, as if someone was pursuing her,and to see if anyone was out there, then she ducked back inside the elevator, made herself as flat against the wall as possible, then, further tucked herself into the corner, closest to the control pane....evidently,she was in justifiable fear that Tea Party Nuts were out in the hall,and that they would arrest her for not looking like a conservative Republican.
Cue Twilight Zone music -
But seriously my thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
I Know Right!!!
You can check out anytime you like......but you may never leave.
"You ain't notting but Hound Dock... cly all time."
-- some Asian drunk singing Karaoke in a Beavis-n-ButtHead esipode
So guests had complained of low water pressure but the water tanks weren't connected? Then why have them?
I thought that was odd as well! Yet when guests complained of low water pressure, hotel maintenance first reaction was to check the roof tanks. Wouldn't they have known they were not connected?!
The tanks were not connected to ONE ANOTHER. That doesn't mean they weren't supplying water to the hotel, they were just doing it individually.
Sadly, if the pressure was low, at least some people were drinking human soup. That's sick.
Add a little salt and it isn't too bad!
It's poorly written. I believe the writer may have meant that "the tanks weren't connected" to each other. That would mean only part of the hotel was getting poor water pressure.
I think what they meant by that is that they water tanks aren't connected to EACH OTHER...i had to think about that one for a second too though haha
My plan for sticking to bottled water when traveling remains in tact. Some hotels offer bottled water. I guess this is a story to support my action plan to avoid hotel water. But I guess this does not help when taking a dead body scented shower. Euw.
They had to be connected, if not why would it effect the water pressure and why check that tank in particular.
Also you would hope the LAPD checked the alarm on the roof door to make sure it was working or not, that would be a big help in the investigation.
I feel for her family.
Suds, at the hotels I stay at for business, which are the Marriot's, Hilton's, and Embassy Suites, they leave bottled water in your room, but you are charged $5 if you drink it.
Her strange behavior in the elevator suggests she was trying to evade someone. I should think police should be questioning all who had key access to the roof. Sounds like an "inside" situation!!
Moto 87
Good idea and my first "person of interes"t would be the maintenance worker
I thought that odd as well. Yet when guests complained about low water pressure, the first maintenance did was to check the roof tanks! Wouldn't they have known they were not connected?!
Jack, Exactly!! See my response to EconomyKiller!!
Stuff like this never happened on Petticoat Junction! GMJ and usual suspects.
I watched the video. First she presses many buttons and stays on the elevator. Then in the other video she presses all the buttons and gets off the elevator. My thought was that here is a bored lady hoping to meet someone on the elevator. She's planning on stopping on each floor and then sticking her head out and looking to see what's going on. She's having a little elevator fun. She's on a vacation by herself? Answering ads on Craig's list would be more dangerous but not much. My guess is she finally hooked up with someone and it just didn't work out very well for her. Even if she was prostituting herself, she didn't deserve this. Drug sales or prostitution can't happen unless someone is buying. These are a few of the things you should not do. Don't sell sex, don't buy sex. Don't sell drugs. Don't use drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Don't gamble. Don't accept rides from strangers. Be careful, it's dangerous out there. Dr. Phil will tell you the same thing. Pay attention.
I'd hate to run into you in a dark elevator.
James Herman - Matlock you are not sir. I have absolutely no idea where that rant came from. Murdered, either an inside job or the murderer got real lucky. he knows his way around the hotel and has access to things. Yes she could have answered some kind of ad that brought her there or maybe she was meeting someone who intended on doing her in - website for singles is possible. the police will find out and one way or the other they will find the killer - possibly a homeless dude who lives in the hotel and has been around the hotel to know enough ways to move stealthly - given description of proximity to skid row - there could be a connection.
I believe that this was a inside job. She knew someone and that person knows the building very well. let's make sure thatwill be a warm case not a cold one L.A.P.D. who check out after the facts? I wonder if they check the bottom of that tank?
James R Herman,
Yes, live in fear and dont enjoy life. Great idea.
Do .. that's funny ... one armchair sleuth telling another "he's no Matlock" and then continuing with his own rant - hopefully you meant that to be funny.
Anyway .. I see an odd woman pushing all the buttons and getting out of the elevator -- odd yes but I don't see suspicious hiding in the corner of the elevator described in the article for dramatic effect.
moto87
Just the standard poor writting you find here on MSNBC. I think they used trained chimps to write and proofread this stuff.
The tanks were not connected TOGETHER, which means only part of the hotels water supply was potentially contaminated.
Burns ... Herman's comment reminds me of an inspirational tape I heard that always made me laugh (it was about overcoming fears and living) It said something like, you can live your life to always eat healthy, be careful to never offend anyone, don't smoke, don't drink, don't gamble and only leave the house if absolutely necessary ... you can still slip and fall in the bathtub and it would serve you right ...
James Herman - I watched the video too, and I think anything we conclude right now without knowing anything further is simply speculation. The reporter on that video mentioned she had some mental health issues ("mild depression", although we don't know any details about that), so that (or adverse prescription drug interaction etc.) could perhaps explain some of the bizarre behavior in the elevator as seen on the video. I don't know if we can also make the conceptual leap that she was murdered, either, until all the facts are in. It could have been suicide or accidental, if the roof access was not secured/alarmed as the hotel claims it was. There have been high-profile instances of confused hospital patients etc. getting out onto the rooftop and falling or freezing to death (Pittsburgh was one in recent years), despite the fact that the door was supposedly locked and alarmed. It's certainly possible she fell victim to a predator, too, perhaps one who noticed her bizarre behavior and took advantage of her altered state or mental illness. I can't fathom why these water tanks didn't have a lock on the lid.
Any way you look at it, it is a terrible tragedy, and my thoughts and prayers go out to this young lady's family. I feel really sorry for her and for them.
Poor little thing. Someone was following her and that's why she pushed more than one button on the elevator, she didn't want this person to know which floor she got off on. Then when she peeked out and hid, it was fear. I hope they find who did this.
Seems pretty obvious to me that she was trying to evade someone chasing or suspiciously following her. She may have thought the person chased her in another elevator or the stairs so she is checking when the door opens. She may have hit multiple buttons out of panic or deliberately hit multiple buttons to throw her pursuer off her trail.
As to the water tank not being connected. It makes sense in a murder situation by someone knowledgeable about the hotel and probably an employee there. Looks like there were at least 4 tanks. Her killer throws her in one and valves it off. Likely planning on letting her decompose for an extended period and then draining and cleaning out that tank at some later date. They may even possibly have added something to the water to speed the decomposition like a commercial drain cleaner or similar substance. The other three tanks keep the water pressure up under most conditions, but at times if demand is great, they don't have enough capacity and drain down, lowering pressure.
These type tanks are typical in tall buildings. City pressure isn't high enough to get to upper floors so a small booster pump, typically at ground level or sometimes an intermediate level, pumps the water at high pressure up to the tanks. In low demand periods, the tanks fill up slowly from this small booster pump. At peak demand times, the tanks will drain down to maintain pressure.
If it were a random murder situation, the killer probably wouldn't have even considered valving off the tanks. It is unlikely that she went in herself and randomly picked the one tank that wasn't supplying water. Had that tank been shut down because of some problem like maybe a leak, it is pretty unlikely that it wouldn't also have been drained down. The fact that the tank was 3/4 full, actually provides some indication of when she was put in it and the tank shut off. They can probably establish a "normal pattern" of how low the tanks get in the morning, and then how long they take to refill. The time it takes to get to 3/4 full would be a likely window of when she was put in it and it was valved off.
99.9% chance this was a murder and probably by an insider or someone with a good understanding of the systems, plus the ability to get on the roof without triggering the alarm.
After reading this and thinking about it, I have to wonder if the person responsible, may have used this "technique" before. It seems to me to have been thought out and not just an impromptu attempt to hide a murder. They may be looking at a serial killer.
When I first heard of this girl, I was hoping she would be found safe. I wonder what kind of trouble she stumbled upon to end up in a water tank. Sad and tragic for everyone who loves her.
It sounds like the horror hotel.
Great, now I have a picture in my head of Norman's mother in a rocking chair. Thanks John. lol
Lisa:
Exactly! The Bates Motel!
I am SO never staying at this Hotel!
Unbeknownst to this young lady,this is not a tourist area.Whoever booked her the room should have told her it was not a safe place for her to be.The mayor of L.A. should be ashamed of the 164 pages of sex offenders that L.A. boasts.Many of these offenders whereabouts are unknown and many are transients.The Cecil Hotel's ad is false advertising and the mayor should work hard to shut it down and level it.I am wondering if she met somebody online and came to meet that person.L.A.'s skid row is not even safe in the daytime.I am sickened about what happened to this young lady.
This is a case for the Pre-Crime Division, and Detective Tom Cruise.
wih all that history, this place creeps me out
She's been missing since Jan 31 but there is no contamination of the water??? Sounds hokey to me, if i had been drinking any of that water i would probably be up-chucking right about now.
Rick, tanks were not connected! Seems very suspicious to me that maintenance worker was involved!
Yep ... seems like a cut and dry case to me ... the maintenance guy did it -- WHAT?? HUH?????
To ease most of the sickening thought of drinking contaminated water... these tanks act like ballast. The water in the tanks are not part of the domestic drinking, but used as weight to push down on a bladder type disk.. hence you get the force to boost pressure, but not actually drink the same water...
Back East,
You sure about that?! The water tanks are on the roof to boost water pressure from pure "gravity".
They slowly fill up from the city water that doesn't have enough static flow (GPM's through the pipes) to adiquately sustain a hotel. Then when you turn on the faucet (below the tank) you have a lot more water pressure than the city pressure.
They also do this for sprinkler systems.
Ballasts are used for a lower center of gravity, buoyancy and many other aquatic applications. Just sayin'.
Take care....
You won't taste it because of built in water filter (if there's any). Long enough for the killer to plan and strike again. Lam didn't learn to carry heat with her.
Yeah - because the responsible thing to do when entering any foreign country is to illegally purchase and carry a weapon.
@ Creekdog... I'm not positive... but I've seen systems where there's the static water is kept seperated from the domestic... Water is pumped at intervals filling domestic against the static water.. it repeats as water is used..
I tend to hope this is the case... or otherwise... yuck.
moto, tanks were not connected TOGETHER.
Rick,Their drinking water is not supplied by those tanks.
I believe The Cleaning Lady is correct... the water in those roof-mounted tanks was only to supply the hotel's Fire Sprinkler system. Not FireWater... Fire Sprinkler Water.
did she know Chris Dorner ?
Maybe the LAPD mistook her for Chris Dorner.
Willie T Ribbs... IS THAT YOU??
I can't believe the water is pure. If the complaint was low water pressure then the tank must have been in service. I wonder if the fire captain is driving a new car?
I wonder how many of the guests are dealing with diarrhea ? They can say all day long that those tanks were not connected, but the guests did report low water pressure. Sounds like they were getting the contaminated water.
tanks werent connected together, but are connected to the hotel, which means only part of the hotel had low water pressure.
sounds like they will be getting lots of lawsuits after the customers find out ! that the water is connected
The water pressure was low so they checked the tanks but they aren't connected to the hotels water supply? Hmmm.
The tanks are not connected to ONE ANOTHER. They are however, connected INDIVIDUALLY to the hotel's water supply. Man, you people are stupid !!!
Realitypeaks . . . thank you.
@Realityspeaks .....
The tanks are not connected to ONE ANOTHER. They are however, connected INDIVIDUALLY to the hotel's water supply. Man, you people are stupid !!!
I hope your mother is not among this forum........."M glad you are the only one .......Smart.
Condolences to LAM 's family ......
They can call it a hotel all they want but it is a flophouse.The manager should never have booked her a room there.It is unsafe as is the area which is full of homeless drug addicts,alcoholics,mentally ill and sex offender's. I've been down there in the daytime in a telephone truck and did not turn my back on anybody.It is scary and it is dangerous.Even if you are not familiar with L.A. skid row there is no way that you would not know that it is a sewer.
lotsa of luck making her killer pay...
Sadly, There is plenty of room at the Hotel California.
You can check out, but you can never leave.
May God rest here soul and bless her family through all of this.
Californication.
I read "not connected" as in, connected to the hotel, but not connected to each other. Am I the only one?
Thats how I read it as well.
I read it that way too. Not connected to each other.
You are correct Delta. Most of the people on here are just clueless.
If true that would explain the low water pressure and the fact that guests did not notice foul water. The tank where the girl was found was not connected to the hotel. This strongly suggests that a maintenance worker killed her and dumped her body into the tank and then disconnected that tank from the hotel so that no one would notice! Probably all tanks need to be connected to the hotel to maintain proper water pressure.
Since many of us are having trouble with which tank was to connected to what, perhaps it would be wise for the hotel to just empty and decontaminate all the tanks - better for public relations.
Moto .. WTH are you talking about? "That strongly suggests the maintenance worker killed her"?????
Your right! I suppose the whole world could have had KEY access to the roof water tanks!!
Besides the obvious shock and terrible sadness of this girl's death, one of the other things I couldn't stop thinking about was, who in that hotel potentially used the water from that tank??? ...whether they drank it or showered with it or cleaned dishes with it. The investigators were concerned enough to test it for biohazards!
I find it at least a little interesting that a water tank that allegedly "wasn't used", was 3/4 full. And that the water pressure being low is what prompted them to even look there. In addition to the fact that they tested it for biohazards. In the presumably 18 or 19 days that she was missing and in there, that NO ONE possibly used the water from that tank????!!!!!
That all being said, I really hope they find who is responsible for this woman's demise.
It sounds like a coverup. They didn't want to cause a panic about people drinking/bathing in contaminated water, so they decided it would be better to lie....so typical of our times. I just cannot believe anything anymore. Everything is a lie....from magazines, news, President, politicians. Terrible.
what suprised me was, the way the article reads, the first thing that the maint worker thought of was to check the roof top tanks (which just happen to be only accessible by a limited few-him included)
coinkydinky?
Allison,do you know anything about L.A.'s skid row.what is wrong with everybody concentrating on the water tanks?she was murdered.This flophouse is not a safe place to stay.She was a tourist,maybe young,but she had to of known this was skid row.The mission and homeless shelters are there.Druggies and drunks roam around in the daytime.I'm sickened that the hotel manager didn't advise her of the danger of this flophouse.Her family is no doubt devastated.A young life gone so who cares about a water tank,.
This is one of the more bizarre stories I've read recently. My prayers go out to her family...
lisaegray,What is bizarre about a young woman traveling alone in the worst part of L.A. being murdered? It's not bizarre.It is very sad.
sleepwalkers
Ouch, this is like what Muslims do to Coptic Christians in the USA
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/muslim-accused-of-beheading-2-christians-in-u-s/
this is why I only drink bottled water.... I am so sorry to hear that she was not found safe.... so sad what our world has become
I (seriously) prefer to drink beer and/or bottled soda when I travel. The odds of something (biological) making you sick from either is pretty much nil.
Read too many stories about water bottles being refilled from the tap.
Note to self: Do not drink the water!
I think they may be chiller tanks for the ac units.
That's what I think, they wouldn't have open potable water tanks. It's still odd guests would complain since they aren't connected.
None of the guests would notice the loss of water pressure if those were tied to the chillers. The chillers water supply is an isolated system and typically you would see them as a cooling tower instead of just plain water storage tanks. Those were potable water tanks by the sounds of it and they are up there to help build up the static water pressure to the building. Some old buildings in NYC have tanks on the roof but they were used for fire fighting water storage before they had dedicated fire sprinkler mains.
Possible the tanks have automatic filler valves with back-flow provenders in the line to keep the portable and non portable separate. So if a fill valve stuck the water pressure would drop.
tanks arent connected to each other........
Hu Phlung Pu,
"chiller water supply" is a Pho Phuc Lai, and YOU KNOW IT. Don't lai... that's a Pho Phuc Lai !
God comfort her family in this time of pain and anguish. We live in a world full of sick people, if you don't put your trust in the Lord, any of us can fall victim to these psychos.
Shut up!
Why? Is it beacause you have no faith? You're probably one of those people sailing through life saying there's no God---Well, I've got news for you--believe in something else you'll fall for anything. It's not going to be pretty..trust me it's not. "When men think there's peace and safety, a sudden destruction comes"...give you life to Jesus now..it's not too late.
Amen DC
And can I have a hallelujah
News Flash, Fee Lex -- Even IF you do place all your trust in "the Lord", you or any one of us can still fall victim to these psychos !!!
The Lord has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING !!
Satan Z. Christ, Religulous thinking is so non-useful.
Perhaps she had made an earlier complaint about LAPD racism and brutality..............................you know what happens to people who do that.
No. What happens?
google Chris Dorner......................
yep, Chris Dorner, the Racist, who happen to be at one time in the LAPD. Thank you, LAPD, for getting rid of racism such as the likes of Chris Dorner
and thank you Chris Dorner, for bringing more attention to the corruption and brutality of the LAPD.....
Dorner was a murderer. He could have been a legitimate crusader for change. Instead he opted for revenge, not justice.
he was no more a murderer than the LAPD. The LAPD just has a better public relations department.......
They burn you or dump you in a water tank.
The Cecil Hotel: You can check-out anytime you like, but, you can never leave.
Her behavior in the elevator and hiding reminds me of the movie "the shining". That hotel was haunted and was filled with evil entities. Maybe the negative energy in the hotel took over the girl, and utimitly killed her. I think anything is possible. I lived in a haunted house for 6 years...so I'm no stranger to spirits...good & bad.
Doh k!
Ummm ... I came up with 4 different comments to make but I just keep coming back to ummm ....yeah that's it - evil elevator button hating spirits did it
could be Rae.
I know its sounds insane...but if you have seen the things I've seen, then it wouldn't sound so crazy...So what are the 4 comments???
Rae77,Cecil Hotel is haunted by the dregs of society.some of them reside there.Maybe she was frightened of somebody who was following her.