Hotel manager arrested after sucking sleeping guest's toes in Nashville 

The manager of a Hilton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee was arrested last Friday after allegedly sucking on a guest’s toes while he was sleeping. 

Hotel guest Peter Brennan woke up around 5 a.m. on March 30 to find hotel night manager David Patrick Neal sucking on his feet. Brennan yelled, appalled at the disturbing scene, and recognized Neal as one of the hotel staff that had helped him out earlier. Neal then fled the room. 

Brennan filed a lawsuit against the hotel, claiming that he had been sexually assaulted. According to the lawsuit, Neal had cloned the key to Brennan’s room and let himself in during the early hours of the morning.

"I was just so, so shocked," Brennan said. "It was, ‘Who are you? Why are you in my room?’ It was almost like a dream, a sort of nightmare. It just didn’t make sense. Why is this person touching me?"

Neal claimed that he had entered Brennan’s room because he had smelled smoke and wanted to make sure that the guest was okay. However, the manager did not report the smoke to hotel security and no one else reported the smell. 

"All my life you just have that sense of security and that sense of peace, right? It’s not like you’re camping, and you have to kind of keep one eye open," Brennan said about the incident. 

"You have that security that’s yours, and when you close your eyes, you feel like you’re safe and you’re protected, and it was a complete violation," he added. 

Neal, 52, was charged last week with aggravated burglary and assault. A later investigation found that Neal had been charged multiple times before for forgery, drinking, and even voluntary manslaughter. 

“When Hilton hired this person, they had to have known. They have to do background checks to know, and the fact that they would put somebody like that in a position where they have the ability to clone keys, have the ability to get into a guest’s room," said Brennan’s attorney Michael Fisher.