GUYS! Big news today as the Ravin Hotel, which is the gift that keeps on giving if you’re a degenerate Nashville news blogger like myself, appears to be on fucking fire! We’re talking literally on fire – not the site of a bare knuckle fist fight between prostitutes like we originally wrote about back in 2018.
#VIDEO: Crews battling massive fire at Raven Motel on Brick Church Pk. No details have been released, so far, but stay with @WKRN for the latest.
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Wow – is this place haunted? Magic? This place closed down how long ago? And, it’s still making news. Whoever the marketing team is for the Ravin Hotel deserves a bonus, ’cause this place is staying in the Music City vernacular even when it’s not even open. Bravo, guys.
Fire spokeswoman Kendra Loney said a woman told arriving firefighters she was asleep in the abandoned hotel’s lobby when she woke up and saw another woman pouring gas near her. The unidentified woman, she said, then set the fire.
Damn.
Original Article, from 1/31/18:
Look, we all know that traffic is a beast here in the Music City. But, I’m reading through this article on the Ravin Hotel in Nashville, and how a couple of hookers caused a huge wreck and subsequent traffic jam. I’m thinking there’s a little more to it here.
Fox 17 News is learning more about a crash that backed up traffic on Trinity Lane during the morning commute on Friday.
Metro Police said it started with a bizarre ploy by a couple of prostitutes at the Ravin Hotel.
“This is the Ravin, and there’s always strange things that go on here,” said Michael, a guest at the Ravin Hotel.
First of all, Michael makes it sound like it’s a haunted house, and not a dangerous drug and prostitution hub. Like, if you turn out all the lights, you’ll hear something go bump in the night – not, like, if you slow down out in front of the building, you’re going to get carjacked by a couple of hookers.
The crash started in the Ravin Hotel parking lot. Police said a driver pulled over, got out to solicit a prostitute for sex and left his truck running.
That’s when a second prostitute got behind the wheel, drove in circles around the parking lot and demanded money. When the man tried to reclaim control of his blue truck by reaching in to grab the steering wheel, the woman drove onto Brick Church Pike and hit a white van.
It’s really a genius plan assuming the person you’re hijacking isn’t armed, and oh yeah, assuming you don’t drive the truck into the middle of traffic.
“Somebody stepped out of the blue truck and hollered, ‘that’s what you get!’ and ran off,” said Ravin Hotel resident Bruce Woodland. “I went back into the house and said, ‘baby there’s a bad wreck out there, hope nobody’s hurt.'”
Who did you say that to, Bruce? Was it YOUR HOOKER?!?!
Look, this sounds a lot to me like that Disney movie where all the princesses started coming to life and entered the real world. Except it’s not princesses – it’s hookers. The hookers have become sentient and are escaping their augmented reality in the Ravin Hotel.
“I don’t stay here a lot because of the activity that goes around,” Michael said.
But, you do stay there sometimes? And, pray tell, Michael, what do you stay at the Ravin Hotel for? Do they have comfy beds and an abundance of clean towels?
According to Metro Police, officers got called to the Ravin Hotel more than 400 times last year. The reports range from fights to dead people.
This is my favorite part of the story – I’m cracking up just trying to type this right now. They don’t say “fights and murders.” They say “fights and dead people.” They’re using the term ‘dead people’ the way you’d use the word ‘termites.’
“Oh, that Ravin Hotel? Yeah, they’ve got a dead people problem.”
What does that even mean?!? Are there just dead people laying around all over the place? As Herbie Brooks said, “Eddie died in room 107 a few months ago. We haven’t got around to moving him yet.” Or, as Rooster pointed out, “do they mean zombies?” Is the fucking Ravin Hotel ground zero for the zombie apocalypse?!?!?
Either way it does not sound like a positive hospitality experience.
Let’s just hope we can contain the carjacking hookers – if they spread throughout the city, we could be in for a battle of The Walking Dead proportions.
All of this is just to say, that’s -so- Ravin (wink and a nod to Ralph Wiggum for that one).
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