Airbnb, which didn’t care when a verified guest did thousands of dollars of damage, has once again come under scrutiny for safety concerns after a TikToker named Tanyka Harold (@tee_ba3) shared a strange incident involving her and her boyfriend. The couple reported that they were almost kidnapped when an Airbnb experience went bad. She stated that they were allegedly locked in the room they had booked.
According to Brobible, Tanyka and her partner, Adani Harold, rented an Airbnb in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When they arrived, they discovered that it was actually in Plantation, Florida, west of Fort Lauderdale. They reported that they entered the room by dialing the key, but once inside, the door locked from the outside instead of locking from the inside.
She, in her TikTok video, said, “I noticed that the door knob was turn ‘inside out’, meaning someone put it in backwards. The lock should’ve been inside the room not outside where someone else can lock it and lock us inside.” Harold reported that when she talked to the owners, “We heard them arguing about whether the door had a lock on it or not. The guy was telling her to shut the f*** up cause he couldn’t think while she was talking. She wasn’t really acting surprised.” For Tanyka, it seemed like a kidnapping attempt while the Airbnb was nowhere to help them out.
Police intervene to rescue a couple, though a misunderstanding of legal documents is revealed as the root cause behind the unsettling incident
From a man discovering a thermostat hack to a host ruining a New Year’s party, we have heard a lot of drama related to Airbnb. However, this one is quite weird. The police intervened to rescue the couple from the locked Airbnb apartment. The TikToker Harold kept insisting there were eviction notices on the apartment, but authorities later clarified that the documents were not eviction notices. Instead, they were notices acknowledging the owner’s authority over the property until a final eviction notice is issued, as a result of an ongoing lawsuit filed by the actual owner.
Even though she used this incident as the main issue and tried to blame Airbnb for listing a property without legal reliability, Airbnb has denied the claims, clarifying that there has not been a final eviction notice requiring the owner to leave the property. Nevertheless, Airbnb still provided the couple with a full refund for the discomfort they experienced.
Despite everything, it was still unclear whether they were actually trapped in this situation by someone or if it was an unfortunate event. There have been other incidents in the past when lodgers faced situations like this, and Airbnb might now have strengthened its policy on the property’s legal reliability. Luckily, what looked like a horror movie to the couple turned out not to be one, but it must have been terrifying indeed.
Published: Apr 9, 2026 04:15 pm