Comedian Now Has Next Several Years' Worth of Material Covered, Sources Say

A comedian rented out his apartment on the "Airbnb" site. It's some kind of short-term, private internet-arranged apartment rental service. If you're going out of town for a week, you could rent your apartment out to make some income while you're away.

The comic says he thought he had rented it out to a family seeking to visit the city to, you know, visit F.A.O. Schwartz and engage in other family-friendly activities.

He was wrong.

A comedian under the impression he had rented out his posh Chelsea pad to a man with family in town for a wedding returned home to a wild orgy, he said.

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When he returned to the building to grab his luggage, a rowdy sex party featuring “Big Beautiful Women” was in the process of being shut down by building management...

“The worst part of the Internet right there was in my apartment.”

“There were all sorts of people walking out of my apartment and people coming in from the back yard. It was a huge mess.”

Teman said his apartment was trashed by a group of nearly nude, overweight people.

The guy who rented the apartment, one Carter, denies anything untoward happened, and insists it was just some friends and family who stopped by, and that a little partying never hurt anyone.

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When Teman later searched Carter’s phone number on the Internet, he found the raunchy soiree involving plus-size women advertised online as “Turn Up Part 2: The Pantie Raid.”

One person even blasted out Teman’s Seventh Avenue address in a tweet for an “XXX FREAK FEST.”

Regarding that reference to the comic being evicted: Most rental agreements specifically forbid subrenting rooms. Apparently New York City calls apartments rented in such a manner "illegal transient hotels," and you can be fined by the city, and evicted from your apartment, for so using them.

Per that NYT article, as of 2012, at least, the Airbnb site does caution users to not break any applicable local laws, but does not go into detail about what those laws are, or what the consequences for breaking them might be.

Thanks to @benk84.

posted by Ace at 03:47 PM

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