My family owned one of the old timey motels in the late 70's, early 80's....You know, the ones with outside door entrances....and yes, do I have some stories. 126 rooms full of....of.....of......people???
Back when law enforcement was cool, we had been robbed twice and my dad decided it was not gonna happen again. He hired a guy to work midnites, a burly guy, a vet, who knew guns..... Well, like a dog coming back to his own vomit, one nite in July the perp shows up...1am, in a coat and sunglasses....Our "employee" unlocks the front door, gets behind the counter and lays one hand on his shotgun, pushes the registration forward....
From our employee: he says the guy pulls back his coat, revealing a pistol and proceeds to say "gimme all of it"......Our employee says he only had to give him half of it, as he rears the shotgun and clips the guy on the right side of his head...and there wasn't much left of the back of his head. Blew him backwards qiute a distance. Behind the perp was a magazine rack and a bunch of trinkets and souviners, basically junk, but the northerners loved this crap. But I digress....This guys skull, hair and brains are literally everywhere. Of course, I get the call from dad to help clean up. The restaurant opened at 5am and we couldn't have this dead guys skull messin up breakfast. When I say he was everywhere...he was everywhere, even behind the phone system behind the desk. So we got a crime scene but dad is insisting the cops drag his dead ass out because we couldn't miss the breakfast crowd. We cleaned things up by 4:30am, the motel was full, but since the lobby was separate, no one heard a thing. Breakfast was on time and my dad ate the biggest plate of scrambled eggs I've ever seen.
He left the ceiling tiles in place...They had holes in them....but it was a great reminder.
And the cool police part?
For months, a cop would walk in, never say a word, but leave a shotgun shell on the counter.
Then there was the nite we had a room covered in motor oil with dirty pics all over the place...but I'll save that for later.