The article cites a military deployment which makes perfect sense.I assumed it was not aimed at hotel rooms, but feared that people would be tempted to try anyway. What with airline fees, amirite?
Carrying a glass carafe while staying some place a short time sounds like a massive pain in the butt, so I reckoned between those two things, there was a risk that the hotel carafe would be set upon by some poor wretch.
I did clean burnt cheese off of a coffee maker once. That sandwich was almost certainly worse for the guest than it was for me.
