  ONLY ON 3: Prank call costs Leland hotel thousands of dollars
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Leland hotel thousands of dollars in damage, lost business
LELAND, NC (WWAY) -- It's not your everyday prank. A string of
phone calls across the nation where pranksters pretend to be
working the front desk of a hotel and talk a guest into doing
something drastic.  It happened this weekend at a hotel in
Leland. A guest set off the sprinkler system, triggering two
hours of flooding.  "It's changed my outlook on everything,"
said Douglas Bartalone. "Like I said, I'm just speechless right
now."  Bartalone was in Leland over the weekend visiting his son
and granddaughter. About 1:30 a.m. Saturday he got a call in his
room at the Best Western.  "'We've got an emergency situation.
This is Stan from the front desk,'" Bartalone said the caller
told him. "Emergency situation? I said, 'It's 1:30 in the
morning.' He said, 'Well we've got a gas leak. We need you to
disengage the water sprinkler