Orlando couple "punked" into trashing hotel room

It is a real life case of being punked, minus Ashton Kutcher. Police say that an Orlando couple caused about $5000 in damages in their hotel room, after being tricked into thinking they were in danger.

Reportedly, someone called the room, pretending to be a front desk agent for the Hilton Garden Inn, and told the wife that there was a gas leak in there room. Heeding directions from the impostor, the wife instructed her husband to:smash out the window of the room, break a wall mirror and use a lamp to punch a hole through the wall, in an attempt to quickly escape. The last step they were supposed to take, throwing out a mattress out the 2nd floor window and jump to safety, was intervened, when a manager, in response to noise complaint, arrived to the room.

Neither the police nor the hotel, have filed any charges against the family.

All I have to say is how gullible can people be, that someone has to call their room, to tell them there is a gas leak?? I mean, I don't know much about gases, and I am far from a scientist, but isn't there an odd smell released? Perhaps they are smell impaired. Wy didn't they just exit out of the front door?? Guess that's a question that I'd have to ask the perpetrator, as they seemed to have had more brains in this situation. On a bright note, in the future, if ever I want to stay at hotel that would be forgiving of my 2 year old's knack for breaking remotes,the Hilton Garden Inn, is it!!