Everyone loves stupid criminal stories, and when they involve
technology, well, that’s just icing on the cake. In this case, it’s also
a cautionary tale: never trust Verizon employees with your nude photos.
Ever.
In fact, we would go so far as to suggest that you take no nude photos
at all, unless it proves to be an absolute necessity. Nothing good ever
comes of it. Case in point: a Verizon employee in Florida has been
arrested after allegedly
stealing nude photos
of a woman whom he and another employee were supposedly helping. As bad
as that is, the really cringe worthy part is that they… wait for it…
decided to share the photos with a random customer.
As if that weren't idiotic enough, they even implicated one another.
When one of the employees, Joshua Stuart, couldn’t find the photos on
his computer, he called over another employee, Gregory Lampert, who had
already saved them to his phone. Unfortunately, the customer they
decided to share the photos with turned out to be a friend of the woman
in the pictures.
Long story short, the woman’s friend stayed cool, finished his business
in the store, then let her know what had happened. After that, they
contacted the police,
who found the images on a laptop and two phones owned by Lampert, who
then confessed to stealing them and has been charged with two felony
counts of dealing in stolen property, along with a host of minor stuff.
Unfortunately, Stuart is apparently still on the lamb, but we expect
that’ll change before long.
At any rate, let this be a lesson to all of you: don’t take nude
pictures. Seriously. They always end up in the wrong (sticky) hands. And
then on the internet. Just don’t do it!
