A luggage mix-up at Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas in Orlando, Florida,
led to a couple locking themselves in their room and refusing to come
out without compensation for a broken Hello Kitty toothbrush.
Hotel staff called deputies early on Monday morning after unsuccessfully
trying for more than two hours to get 14 bags of luggage that had
mistakenly been delivered to the couple's room, according to an Orange
County arrest report.
The couple, Setia Kurniawan, 49, of Australia, and his wife, Vonni
Gustimego, 44, were staying in room 7845. The bags were supposed to be
delivered to room 7854.
When the hotel realized the mix-up, a manager went to the couple's room
and tried to get the bags.
The couple were upset, though, about a Hello Kitty toothbrush that broke
while at the hotel.
It is unclear how the toothbrush was broken. They
demanded compensation, and when the hotel manager refused to
immediately help, they escorted her out of the room and held the luggage
hostage.
The manager told deputies the couple were "aggressive" and
"confrontational when she contacted them about the mishap," the report
states.
When deputies arrived shortly after midnight, they announced themselves
as law enforcement and knocked on the couple's door for more than 10
minutes. Deputies said the couple refused to open it, though, despite
being threatened with arrest if they didn't give up the bags.
Deputies said Gustimego eventually opened the door "abruptly," letting
them inside to see the mixed-up luggage sitting in the foyer area.
As they walked in, she stuck her finger in one of their faces and
started yelling.
The deputy said he pushed Gustimego's hand down and then saw Kurniawan
lunge toward him.
He got Kurniawan on the ground, as Gustimego grabbed the hotel manager
and pulled her into the room by her jacket. Deputies said she then hit a
hotel security officer's ear.
The deputies eventually secured the couple and arrested Kurniawan on
charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, grand theft and
resisting and officer without violence.
He was taken to the Orange County Jail and released a short while later
on bail.
Deputies released Gustimego at the hotel to care for the couple's
children.
It is unclear if they were compensated for the toothbrush.
Since her husband passed away, she's been in the process of trying to
sell 90 percent of her herd. She currently raises the animals for their fiber and also shows them.
Abrahamsen said she was evicted from her farm in March 2015.
"So here I am homeless with 70 alpacas, three dogs and two horses," she
said.
Among the kind strangers Abrahamsen met after her husband's death was a
woman Sandra Whatman who she quickly connected with because her husband
also died. The woman began helping at the farm and took in Abrahamsen
and all her animals.
Abrahamsen said she also wished to thank three emergency rescue
personnel from Bellville-Jefferson Fire Department who arrived in time
to assist her at the house.
She said alpacas have never been known to wander onto icy ponds but for
some reason they did.
She did not know how deep the water was when she went out to attempt to
rescue her animals.
"I wasn't thinking and I thought one of them was standing in the water
but it turned out she was treading water," she said.
Kochhesier later told Abrahamsen that when he climbed the fence at the
property to get to her quickly, he got quite the shock, because it's
electrified to keep the animals in. He also admitted to her afterwards that he doesn't swim.
