{"id":18690,"date":"2022-06-18T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/airbnb-host-calls-out-guest-for-covering-up-door-cameras-with-towels"},"modified":"2022-06-18T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:26:49","slug":"airbnb-host-calls-out-guest-for-covering-up-door-cameras-with-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/airbnb-host-calls-out-guest-for-covering-up-door-cameras-with-towels","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb host calls out guest for covering up door cameras with towels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Airbnb host has shared footage of a guest covering a doorbell camera &#8212; and it has divided TikTok. The video shows someone reaching around the doorframe to place a tea towel over the doorbell as on-screen text reads: &#8220;That time an Airbnb guest thought it was a good idea to put a towel over the Ring camera.&#8221; The host referred to them as &#8220;bonehead guests&#8221; in the caption, and used the hashtag &#8220;idiot squad&#8221;. The clip certainly seems to have piqued his audience&#8217;s curiosity as it has received 3.6 million views since it was uploaded in October 2021. @therealwilliamstark Bonehead guest thought doing this was a good idea #fyp #airbnbhost #idiotsquad #airbnb Not everyone agreed that the guests were &#8220;boneheads&#8221;, however. One user wrote: &#8220;How odd &#8212; a guest wanting privacy.&#8221; Another added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t agree with being spied on at Airbnb&#8221;. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter Several commenters explained why the camera is there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Airbnb host has shared footage of a guest covering a doorbell camera &#8212; and it has divided TikTok.The video shows someone reaching around the doorframe to place a tea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,19,83,105,166,163],"class_list":["post-18690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-behind-viral-videos","tag-entertainment","tag-security-cameras","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}