- Text
Elizabeth Moreau (PICTURES): Police Say ESPN Reporter Victim of Hotel Room Prank
Elizabeth Moreau (tvvideoresumes.com)
NEW YORK (CBS) Police say ESPN reporter Elizabeth Moreau wrecked her Florida hotel room - smashing the window with a toilet lid cover - after being told over the phone that the hotel was on fire, according to reports.
According to the police report obtained by website The Smoking Gun, the 27-year-old ESPNU correspondent, staying at the Hilton Garden Inn in Gainesville, was directed by an anonymous male caller from her hotel room phone to shove towels under her front door and use the porcelain toilet lid to break the room's window.
According to the report by the Gainesville Police Department, "She then went to the window and used it to break out the window. The window was broken and the toilet lid broke upon falling to the ground outside."
Moreau told police she started becoming suspicious when the caller made rude comments to her and then told her, "That's what she gets for being a bad ex-wife."
The Smoking Gun reports that the prank could possibly be the work of Pranknet, an internet prank calling virtual community known for similar stunts.
The hotel's front desk clerk told police he "received the call from a male subject who asked to be transferred to his wife in room 208."
Moreau was in Gainesville to cover a University of Florida women's volleyball match.
- Report: NFL player questioned in death investigation
- 4 accused of holding mother, child captive in Ohio
- Walter Lee Williams is 500th on FBI's "Most Wanted" list
- Atty: Martin family confident Zimmerman will be convicted
- Ariel Castro, alleged Cleveland kidnapper, appears in court
- Police: Boy, 13, killed sister, 5, with wrestling moves
- Cops: Fla. man beaten, robbed, left naked on first date
- Bulger Trial: Admitted killer Martorano calls self "nice guy"
- One of US FBI's most wanted nabbed in Mexico
- Report: College student kept girl, 13, in his room for a month
- Steubenville teen rapist must register as sex offender
- Calif. widow's home broken into 14 times, says she's leaving
- Ind. woman, sentenced to death at 16, to be released
- Cleveland kidnap victims may get state govt. payments
- Okla. inmate executed in the 2000 death of a couple
- Search for missing woman, 19, in Tempe, Ariz.
