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Comment by rahimnathwani | Hacker News Reader

    Yet if I had gone back to the room and merely pulled a single drink out of the minibar, I could have run up a $60 charge no problem!

Right, but pulling a drink out of the minibar requires a room key which, in turn you couldn't get without ID.

So both cases depend on ID.

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Ah, but they did. They gave me that second key without ID, just with interrogation. That same interrogation was not suitable for a $35 parking charge, however.

I suspect there's an aspect of precedent/case law here. Minibar charges hold up in court differently than parking (service) charges, perhaps?

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