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Best Buy 'Geek Squad' Member Accused of Taping Showering Woman With Cell Phone
Thursday , April 12, 2007
AP
POMONA, Calif. —
A 22-year-old woman and her mother are suing Best Buy and its "Geek Squad" computer repair team for dispatching a technician who they say videotaped the daughter taking a shower.
Sarah Vasquez and her mother Natalie Fornaciari filed a Superior Court lawsuit Wednesday claiming technician Hao Kuo Chi, 26, placed his cellular telephone in Vasquez's bathroom during a service call March 4 in the family's Walnut home and recorded her showering.
The suit also claims the phone was found in the bedroom of Vasquez's 13-year-old sister, Kelly Rocha.
"I couldn't believe this was happening to me," Vasquez said. "I felt embarrassed and dirty because he did this when I was naked."
Chi was arrested and later charged with misdemeanor counts of using a camera to view a person without consent and annoying or molesting a child under 18, said Sgt. Bob Skidlarski of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. A court hearing will be held May 3.
Best Buy officials released a statement saying the company learned of the lawsuit shortly after it was announced Wednesday.
"Obviously, we intend to cooperate fully with any investigation into this matter," the statement said.
Chi was at the family's home for a scheduled appointment, according to the lawsuit.
Vasquez claims she noticed a cell phone positioned on her bathroom sink when she exited the shower. A red light on it was blinking, she said. Vasquez went to tell her sister, but when they returned the phone was gone. Kelly later found it in her bedroom.
The sisters removed the memory chip and took it to a Verizon store to see what was on it. They alerted their stepfather, who reported Chi to police.
"I was shocked and felt angry and upset for my daughters when I learned what was on the video," Fornaciari said.
The family is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for alleged fraud, negligent misrepresentation and hiring, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A telephone listing could not be located for Chi in Walnut or the surrounding area. The plaintiffs' attorney, Gloria Allred, said she did not know if he had a lawyer.
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Originally Posted by HeavyB3
I wasn't serious in my post.. I don't really give a crap.
Im still pissed you quit CC Heavy.. When I was in there that one time to get the PS2 memory card, you said youd hook me up on a flat screen.. You musta known you were gonna be quiting soon so you made me a hollow promise..
Im still pissed you quit CC Heavy.. When I was in there that one time to get the PS2 memory card, you said youd hook me up on a flat screen.. You musta known you were gonna be quiting soon so you made me a hollow promise..
I haven't worked there in almost a year and a half. I can educate your children someday though....
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Originally Posted by HeavyB3
I wasn't serious in my post.. I don't really give a crap.
First let me say if this guy did it he's a slimebag and deserves what he gets. I do have a couple things that make me go hmmmmm...
First, she saw a cell phone in the bathroom with a blinking light. I have to think it was pointing right at the shower right? No caution flags went up there? Hello?
Second, you have a service tech appointment in your home. I don't know about the rest of the world but really, I'm showered and pretty much ready to track the person from the minute they come in until I escort them out and lock the door. I sure as hell wouldn't have them wandering around aimlessly where they shouldn't have been.
First let me say if this guy did it he's a slimebag and deserves what he gets. I do have a couple things that make me go hmmmmm...
First, she saw a cell phone in the bathroom with a blinking light. I have to think it was pointing right at the shower right? No caution flags went up there? Hello?
Second, you have a service tech appointment in your home. I don't know about the rest of the world but really, I'm showered and pretty much ready to track the person from the minute they come in until I escort them out and lock the door. I sure as hell wouldn't have them wandering around aimlessly where they shouldn't have been.
That's what I'm saying AZ. It sounds real fishy to me. As a woman, you just don't do that. It could have been worse.
That's what I'm saying AZ. It sounds real fishy to me. As a woman, you just don't do that. It could have been worse.
No kidding, and a woman with two daughters!? There can't be a parent that dumb. I take that back, there are some that dumb and this may just be one of them.
Second, you have a service tech appointment in your home. I don't know about the rest of the world but really, I'm showered and pretty much ready to track the person from the minute they come in until I escort them out and lock the door. I sure as hell wouldn't have them wandering around aimlessly where they shouldn't have been.
Same here. Why would any woman (teen or older) shower when a strange man is in her place? I'm not saying what the dude did was okay, cause it wasn't; I'm saying the girl should have been smarter. (That said, thank God I was lucky when I was younger and not smart.)
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