NYC hotel guest arrested after returning to get his gun

[livingston]

NYC hotel guest arrested after returning to get his gun
Published May 30, 2017
Torrie Flock, 23 from Charlotte, N.C., rang front desk reception at the Harbor Motor Inn on Shore Parkway in Gravesend Monday afternoon to say he’d left a .45 caliber Smith & Wesson under the mattress in room 218, officials said.
When he returned to retrieve the firearm around 1:30 p.m., cops were waiting and arrested him.

A maid had previously gone in to confiscate the gun, wrapped it in a towel, and handed it over to police.

The firearm had seven rounds in it, according to prosecutors, who said Flock told officers, “I didn’t know it was such a big deal.”


Defense attorney Dara Hebert said her client had just been in town doing “touristy stuff,” like visiting the Statue of Liberty and Times Square.
NYC hotel guest arrested after returning to get his gun

 

[NY Leatherneck]

Good job NY....why dont you charge the maid for touching it too!!

 

[livingston]

Good job NY....why dont you charge the maid for touching it too!!

She wrapped it in a towel Her fingers did not touch that evil gun ....

 

[Darth]

Probably saved 15, maybe 16 thousand lives?

 

[4excal]

I hate to say it but, I had to do that once or twice myself when the room advertised a safe and didn't have the safe and I had to go somewhere that even I wouldn't carry. And not taking the car and wearing a bathing suit.. twas a damn scary feeling, the ole under the mattress trick. Thankfully my maids at the time were gun friendly

 

[kev74]

Thankfully my maids at the time were gun friendly

They weren't gun friendly. They just didn't clean your room very well.

 

[4excal]

They weren't gun friendly. They just didn't clean your room very well.

But but but...it was the state of Pennsylvania..

 

[Jsmegs77]

Good night, why the hell would anyone stay there? I lived in Gravesend, that place has a standing reputation for being an "hourly" hotel.

 

[Airborneguy]

Not a good hotel. "Tourists" don't stay there. There's more to his side of the story for sure.

 

[C3D]

Under the mattress? Every burglar known to man tosses the mattress when hitting a hotel room. What a terrible hiding spot.

 

[Marine Cpl]

He should have said he needed to look for his ring. What an idiot.

 

[4excal]

Under the mattress? Every burglar known to man tosses the mattress when hitting a hotel room. What a terrible hiding spot.

For my scenario there really wasn't any other place whatsoever

 

[Podmonkey]

Man that guy was dense. But its common for people outside NY to not grasp just how draconian the laws are. In fact at my last range trip I was talking to an older gentleman that wanted to visit his daughter in NYS. When I told him I was from NY he asked if his PA permit was good in NY or if not how could he get a NY nonresident permit. I chuckled and showed him the the Lockport veteran thread, I showed him unSAFE ACT, I explained the permit process for NY resident permits and how it didn't matter since NY doesn't issue non resident permits anyway. After an actual moment of stunned silence he said he was just going to buy plane tickets for his daughter and family because there was "No way I'm stepping foot in that bullshit, shitty, goddamn state!" and "Who or what the hell are the people of NYS voting for?!" I explained NYC and he replied. "Fuck NYC, fuck em all!" Which I heartily seconded. People just don't know. They can't understand.

 

[spat]

Man that guy was dense. But its common for people outside NY to not grasp just how draconian the laws are. In fact at my last range trip I was talking to an older gentleman that wanted to visit his daughter in NYS. When I told him I was from NY he asked if his PA permit was good in NY or if not how could he get a NY nonresident permit. I chuckled and showed him the the Lockport veteran thread, I showed him unSAFE ACT, I explained the permit process for NY resident permits and how it didn't matter since NY doesn't issue non resident permits anyway. After an actuall moment of stunned silence he said he was just going to buy plane tickets for his daughter and family because there was "No way I'm stepping foot in that bullshit, shitty, goddamn state!" and "Who or what the hell are the people of NYS voting for?!" I explained NYC and he replied. "Fuck NYC, fuck em all!" Which I heartily seconded. People just don't know. They can't understand.

People here don't get it. They say "you should research all the laws before you go".

How would you feel if you went to some other state and got arrested for a "high capacity" 20oz travel mug when tried to get it filled in drive through, and when you did, everyone acted like it was perfectly normal to outlaw that, and why on earth would you think you could have it ? You had never heard of such a thing before, but they are all saying "you should have researched mug laws before coming here"....

The draconian state of NY is just the foreign to some people from "free America"

 

[prambo]

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

 

[C3D]

People here don't get it. They say "you should research all the laws before you go".

How would you feel if you went to some other state and got arrested for a "high capacity" 20oz travel mug when tried to get it filled in drive through, and when you did, everyone acted like it was perfectly normal to outlaw that, and why on earth would you think you could have it ? You had never heard of such a thing before, but they are all saying "you should have researched mug laws before coming here"....

The draconian state of NY is just the foreign to some people from "free America"

I disagree. A visitor needs to have to have his head far up his own keister to not know that New York, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts have difficult and arbitrary gun laws. If you don't check before coming you get what's coming.

None of that means we agree with the laws here, but they are the laws we live under (for now).

 

[Jsmegs77]

Y'all are assuming the visitor was completely on the up and up, a responsible if ill informed firearms owner. I submit that someone from SC who stays in a fleabag motel in a Brooklyn neighborhood wasn't exactly visiting the popular tourist attractions. There's another side to this, I'm pretty sure. Besides, who on earth would FORGET their sidearm? That, to me, speaks to a very high level of distraction, or a very low regard for your possessions.

 

[spat]

I disagree. A visitor needs to have to have his head far up his own keister to not know that New York, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts have difficult and arbitrary gun laws. If you don't check before coming you get what's coming.

None of that means we agree with the laws here, but they are the laws we live under (for now).

LOL, there is a big difference between knowing some states are bad, and realising the full extent. Tons of people know that the 2nd ammendment outlaws much of what NY does, and the concept that they can get away with it is completely foreign to them.

They know a CCW is hard to get in NY, and that we have to play funny games with our ARs to keep them legal, but they are under the impression that just owning a gun, and keeping it at home (or your hotel) is a constitutionally guaranteed right that no state could get away with violating. They may remember hearing about a guy who sued DC for their handgun ban and won years ago.

How many FUDDs that *live here* here don't realize that ammo background checks are the law, and that the only reason it isn't currently illegal to give your buddy some ammo at the range without one is that the NYSP hasn't setup the database yet ?

Do you research *all* the laws when you travel out of state ? Do you know that in FL, a hidden compartment in your car or truck is highly illegal ? Or that in Texas some glassware requires registration ?

Would you bother to look those laws up if you were ever headed there ? Or would you just say "well, that can't possibly mean my pistol safe bolted under my seat, or this set of coffee mugs I'm bringing to the mother in law" in truth, those laws probably don't cover either, but you aren't going to look it up, you'll just assume they must not, because it would be asinine if they did.