Hao Kuo Chi was paying a house call when Sarah Vasquez says he set his camera phone up in the bathroom, left it running, and recorded her bathing.
“You could see him on the video setting it up,” Vasquez said. “I was shocked.”
Gotta be careful when you let strange people into your house these days. They could be total pervert douchebags.
Geek Sued For Peeking At Woman In Shower Via Video [CBS] (Thanks to Bob and Zolton!)
After reading my comment, I’ve realized I didn’t really make any kind of point… my mistake. What I was getting at is that it wasn’t taken on a BBY-owned piece of equipment, thus limiting the victim’s ability to take on BBY/GS, right? I mean… she PAID the guy to be there, so it’s not like he was trespassing on company time or anything… I’d say the blame is squarely on the DA’s shoulders, and that his actions are completely seperate and unrelated to BBY/GS. Meh?
@sasquatchbill: Mattellica, I believe is a heavy metal band created by the same people that brought you Hot Wheels, Scrabble, and Uno. Look it up.
@etherag: Employees of companies are representing their company while they are working. If the company fails to properly do background checks, or otherwise hires someone who does something wrong, that employee, as a representative of the company, is therefore causing the company to do something wrong.
Since the company is therefore sending someone into a home who committed a crime, the company is therefore being sued for their part in it.
The reporter keeps saying “instead,” but he didn’t record the video instead of repairing the computer; he was in the process of repairing the computer. The reporter presents no evidence that the technician did a shoddy repair job. Best Buy should sue him for falsely implying that their technicians don’t repair computers.
@bugmenot112: Completely agree here. The fact that the incriminating evidence left the scene of the “crime” and was in the possession of the “victim” prior to police interaction is suspect.
However, if the video shows the guy setting it up…he is soooo busted.
Okay, when I was at first shocked. Then I read further and watched the video. It’s amusing to me that while watching this video, Ms. Vasquez seemed so “shocked” while delivering her story that she couldn’t wipe the shit grin from her face in front of all of the publicity.
Then we get to hear the sister speak. “I was jus’ thinking like, well like, and like the memory chip thingy, should like be like taken out.” Does she REALLY know what and where that “memory chip” is?
Furthermore, she “called out to her sister Kelly”. Did the GS Agent not hear this commotion and think something was up?
So let’s see, Somehow the cell phone is behind sink in plain sight, lady takes a shower on cue (how long does the video capability last on this phone?), lady gets out of the shower and spots it right away with it’s blinking red light, yells to sister, sister takes out memory chip without hesitation thinking about the video getting on the internet, showered lady gets dressed, they go to Verizon (which must have been downstairs and empty to get such quick service), they see the recording, go back to the home, stall the GS tech who is still there (how much time has passed!?), and finally he is arrested. Hmmm…something is not right!
By the way, maybe she should keep flipping her hair when making a publicity stunt, it doesn’t look quite perfect yet and to keep grinning to a minimum when acting distressed. Publicity stunt…I mean press statement.
Wo wo wo just a minute… this is getting out of hand! Why TF would the guy video himself planting the cellphone in the room? That is some serious BS! I agree with a few of the comments that say simply, WTF cellphone has a red light when recording video?!!
Even if the guy really did setup a cellphone (BTW how TF do you balance a cellphone on the sink to take video like that?!) the law suit should be against that individual and should IN NO WAY involve anyone else. At least that’s how it would go down in the UK anyway… not so sure bout teh US though!!
The bit in the video above when the girls like ” I saw myself and I just couldn’t watch anymore” that cracked me up… what utter BS.
@jazzdonkey – Couldn’t have said it better myself.
/completely agree
Nobody has mentioned this yet:
“You could see him on the video setting it up,” Vasquez said.
If this is true, then it’s pretty much case closed.
@jazzdonkey: I agree.
The only thing that could save this would be if they had a huge house.
So He’s facing two counts of invasion of privacy and one count of child molestation? I don’t know much if anything about law but where does the two counts of invasion of privacy come from. I would think it would be one because of the girl taking a shower. And child molestation? Wasn’t the woman 22? Maybe the reporters don’t have their facts straight.
@crayonshinobi
Perhaps the tech guy is in on the gig. Becuase I dont see how he could be smart enough to set it up and all that other crap and not realize that at least (by my account) 2 hours had passed and that they were stalling him for the police.
This wouldnt be the first time the suspect was actually a part of the scam.
Furthermore…how many people have shower curtians/sliding doors that are see through? I know that my clear sliding doors that I had at my appartment were good for about 30 seconds of viewing my girlfriend before they got all foggy and then I had to jump in…perhaps I’ve gone to far.
i thought cameras had memory cards and cell phones had SIM cards? if you record a video on a cell phone, it is not recorded on the SIM card. my cell phone is like that. are there cell phone with memory chips??
Human ignorance on full display. My God I feel terrible knowing that I live in this universe!
Three points:
1. My intuition (see previous comment) was proven correct, which is never a good thing. I wish for once my intuition would prove wrong.
2. At 54 seconds remaining, when the reporter says “stalling the technician, who had just finished the computer repairs and had just noticed the memory card…” they cut away to B-roll of a dark-skinned person opening up some kind of electronic device. I don’t know what the device is, but it looks nothing like any PC I’ve ever seen.
When B-movies or TV shows do things like this, I understand. Those are cheap forms of entertainment. I don’t expect cheap entertainment to get every detail right, but I expect more of the news media.
3. TWO counts of invasion of privacy and one count of CHILD MOLESTATION???
I’m not even going to explain my distress over that last point. I’ll just say that anyone who doesn’t share my distress deserves to die. Literally, deserves to die. I’ll further say that I am well aware this means a large percentage of Americans deserve to die. Hopefully in natural disasters, though I would settle for widespread patricide and civil war.
My God what a horrible world we live in.
Thank you, ABC!
4. Actually, one more point.
That’s from an article in the Orlando Sentinel.
Now, does Gloria Allred have any idea what she’s saying?
Does she know what it’s like to apply for a job?
Does this somehow tie in with her well-known leftwing agenda?
This whole story is just sick, sick, sick. Some cheeky geek captures a phone cam video and it triggers all this…
All this was just out there waiting for a trigger.
@kwai_chang_caine: Yeah, considering the girl was 22…the “child molestation” charge seems to have been “added for effect” by the media. I’m sure they’ll issue a retraction next week when no one cares anymore…
I automatically relate people who use geeksquad to be dumb people. Those girls look dumb to me and why is she taking a shower while the technician was fixing a computer, sound like a porn scene to me.
Can they be framing the geeksquad technicians? How would he be able to know the girl will take a shower? It just seem to me that 3 women tried to sue for some cooperate money.
anyway, I can be totally wrong
Listening a second time to that video, she says she looked “at it and the little red dot was recording” I’m taking that to mean not a front-mounted red light flashing but the red record indicator that shows on the phones display screen when recording video. She says she saw the phone first and then the record indicator so that’s not too much of stretch to see, at least it has the an air of plausibility.
I think their demeanor in front of the television cameras needs to be contextualized as well; it’s a bit exciting/nerve wracking even when it’s a crappy scene. They aren’t high-fiving here either. And, in truth, though she was allegedly violated by this invasion, she did manage to stop it before any real damage occurred beyond her now growing fear of computer repairmen.
I guess, particularly after the Duke dustup, these kind of things popping out like this in the media makes us suspicious. That’s too bad, as this could prove to be legit. The fact that Allred got attached so quickly only makes it more suspicious. They’d do well to get another lawyer and to stay far away from the media until this gets resolved.
Man, the more I think about this…
How much know-how does it really take to take an Agent’s phone (which could have easily been set down for the time period in question given the scope of work he had) and record yourself showering? Why, you ask? Easy money, I say… easy, easy money. Shit, for all we know that’s the whole reason they HAD him out in the first place! Like I said, the more I think about it the more it sounds like a setup to me. The guy was an Agent for a very long time (since GS national rollout a few years ago) which lends him a lot of credibility. It means he’s been going into people’s homes for years and providing quality service without any problems like this, and I can tell you from experience that BBY/GS does some VERY thorough fact-checking on all of its employees… I call shenanigans!
The guy could quite possibly be in on it. Taking into account all the giant holes in the story, assuming that the child molestation charge was a media concoction, and depending on how much they think they can sue Best Buy for.
Since when is there a little red dot on a camera cell phone? Then all the time that passed by since the sisters went to Verizon…And when was the last time you were in a Verizon store where you were actually helped within 60 minutes? LOOK AT HER SMILE… L I A R
It was all planned this geek squad guy is taking the fall…he will only be fired and split the settlement with these N.H.H…to quote IMUS
This report begs more information, mainly:
A. What was actually on the video? Because she doesn’t say.
B. Why wouldn’t they follow up with the employee from the Verizon store to see what actually happened when they came in with the memory chip?
C. And finally, why is one of the charges child molestation if the sister he reportedly recorded is 22-years-old?
1st if this video doesnt make it to the internet, it never happened.
2nd Can anyone explain why in the second video they say he is being charged with sexual molestation?
Does filming someone constitute molestation? If so, someone should do something about the 89734 foreigners hanging out at the wave pool at Wet ‘N’ Wild molesting everyone.
I swear I saw that girl in one of those True.com ads. I just know it was her.
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First, who says the technician knew someone would be taking a shower? For all we know, he could have aimed it at the toilet and the shower just happened to be behind the toilet.
Second, what’s the big deal about someone taking a shower while a technician is in the house, especially when there are other members of their family around. You take a change of clothes into the bathroom, lock the door, and it’s no big deal.
I’m amazed at how many people here are quick to condemn the family and let the technician off the hook. It seems pretty cut and dry to me that Hao Cuo Chi is just a voyeur who got busted (as he should have).
From their expressions, tone, and manner, I’m convinced that those girls are lying.
So, the Geek Squad is now the Peek Squad, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Industry, California. Te recap, a Squaddie is accused of using a cameraphone to record a 22-year-old showering while out on a call.Interesting allegation.
Well , You ALL missed one jucy titbit. HIS cameraphone RECORDED HIM setting up the phone in the bathroom. GUILTY!! Is Best Buy guilty? Stay Tuned for next weeks episode of “Our World is Screwed Up!”
Alternative view: these two are a couple and have schemed elaborately to defraud BestBuy. Geek boy will get arrested, plead horny, get off with a slap on his wrist; meanwhile Shower girl will exort hundreds of thousands of dollars from BB through a civil suit. Shower girl collects funds and splits them with Geek.
Team Comment-Before-You-Read: It says that the video shows the techie setting it up. It’s one of the few details in the original story copy. So, guy’s incriminated right off the bat. Not sure how the girl and/or her family could get away with staging that.
As for the remaining details on this story (i.e., when he put phone in bathroom, how long it took to get back from Verizon, etc.), feel free to continue debating to no end.
@Havok154:
Maybe she wasn’t the only one in the house, and felt she would be safe. No matter what happened, what was this geek squader thinking?
@mcdonnr:
Not really, it just proves that he may have been good enough to not been caught, until now.
Kinda like the catholic priests who molested young children 25 years ago. Just because you are an employee with tenure in an organization, doesn’t mean you should automatically garner respect.
Purchased a new laptop at BestBuy. Salesman said, “We offer a free ‘tuning’ service that will increase your laptop processing power by 20%.” I said, sure; go ahead. When I asked for details on what they were changing or tweaking, I was told it was proprietary information. I watched the GeekSquad tech pull a thumb-drive from his pocket and started tweaking the registry, etc.
I get the laptop home and certain things don’t work such as LightScribe. Worse than that, I am presented with errors while the desktop is loading. I only wish I kept a detailed list of all the things I discovered that GeekSquad completely f**ked up on my laptop. I can tell you this; they disabled a handful of key Windows Services which, per my aforementioned example, is why LightScribe was not working amongst other things.
They even talked me into installing TrendMicro’s antivirus/firewall suite as well as Spy Sweeper. After a few days of UTTER CHAOS on my system, I placed a support email to TrendMicro who was quick to say their product should not / could not exist in tandem with Spy Sweeper.
GeekSquad are amateurs at best. Anyone who didn’t have a bit of technical savvy would never have figured out what was wrong with their laptop, post-geek ‘tuning’.
What a disaster. I highly recommend NOT using GeekSquad or any other service that REFUSES to tell you exactly and precisely what changes were made to YOUR computer.
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