[UA] This has got to be a ritual...

[Rayburn, Russell E.]

Why else would someone coat an entire room and it's contents in Vaseline?

"MAY 18--Meet Robert Chamberlain. The 44-year-old Virginia man was arrested
earlier this month and charged with felony criminal mischief for damaging a
Motel 6 room in upstate New York. But Chamberlain, who has spent time on the
pipe, wasn't breaking windows or throwing the television off the balcony. He
was nabbed for slathering Vaseline on every single thing in Room
205--mattresses, pillows, sheets, furniture, carpeting, blankets, the TV,
etc. "

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0518041motel1.html