Towel thieves targeted in hi-tech clampdown

Hotels are deploying new technology to combat one of the menaces of the hospitality industry - the towel thief.

People are stealing towels, bathrobes and other linen. Now, there is the anti-theft system which will soon arrive in Britain. It uses radio-frequency tags which are stitched into towels, bathrobes etc. and it can trigger an alarm if it gets removed from its place.

The US company, which is the owner of this anti-theft system, said that one hotel in Hawaii introduced this system and saved more than £9,000 a month. William Serbin, the executive vice-president of Florida-based Linen Technology Tracking, says no  matter which month of the year it is, people always take things with them and hotels lose 5 to 20 percent of towels, sheets and robes.

The US company uses chips similar to security tags in shops which can track linen wherever those are and also detect stolen items as people are taking them away from the hotel/hotel area. 

Original article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8455769/Towel-thieves-targeted-in-hi-tech-clampdown.html

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My opinion:

When I saw this article, I really had to laugh because I cannot believe that people are stealing towels and other things from places where they stay. I think people who are doing such things are very weird and pathetic. It is not normal to do things like this. It is not yours so leave those things on their places.

The anti-theft system is something I find very good. Without the example about the hotel in Hawaii, I would still have believed that this system would have positive effect on the situation.

I think they should use this system to all items with great value that is possible to be stolen so the items could be traced easily.

I hope this system will arrive in Britain, and other countries,  very soon so the stolen linen will come to an end.