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Woman’s horror after Best Buy employee steals ‘racy’ photos from iPhone and says she must go to his house to get them back
A mother who went to have her cell phone fixed at Best Buy has spoken of her fury after a male employee copied racy photos of her to a CD before later inviting her to his home to collect them.
Last April, Sophia Ellison hired a Geek Squad employee in Fairfax, Virginia to transfer hundreds of photos, numbers and contacts to a newly purchased iPhone for her.
Instead, he copied them on to his own computer and demanded that she see him in person if she wanted to get them back.
‘I felt sick. I felt violated. I felt so embarrassed,’ Ms Ellison told WTOP after claiming the man had stolen her pictures.
Originally approaching the employee to get the cracked screen on her iPhone replaced before being told she was eligible for an upgrade, the employee identified only as George offered to buy her old iPhone off her for $60 out of pocket.
‘I said OK but everything will be wiped clean? And he said yeah, everything will be gone. And I said OK,’ she said.
When he returned to the counter an hour later, he allegedly told her that he had wiped everything clean from her old phone and handed her the cash for it straight from his wallet.
Flipping through her new phone, all her contacts were there.
‘I just assumed that all my pictures were going to be there too,’ she said.
It was a day later she realized all 900 of them, as well as some videos, were missing.
Maudie N Mandeville
July 23rd, 2012
She takes ‘racy’ pictures of herself for herself? Weird.
DebZeppelin
July 23rd, 2012
The articles states she has racy photos of herself, for herself??!!! Sicko. And her children had access to the phone? She also should be arrested for endangering the welfare of minors.
IronyCurtain
July 23rd, 2012
Pictured behind her in the photo are hundreds of hard drives containing millions of racy photos she took of herself for herself.
Weird.
It is absolutely deplorable for a woman to be taking racy pictures in the first place.
…Unless they are for drooling husband purposes.
…Or so I am told.
Buffalobob
July 23rd, 2012
Nitwit,we all know that everything you post or store on your phone/computer is sacrosanct and it will never be seen by anyone except your close/bestest friends. Oh and by the way he was gone for an hour in the back room, was your phone sticky when he returned it to you?
Tim
July 23rd, 2012
So, George wanted ‘racy’ pictures of her?
Which she took of herself, for herself?
I’m starting to get this “Romance made in Heaven” thing for these two.
Wyatt, Insensitive Jerk
July 23rd, 2012
This actually happened to me once. Except the store clerk who stole my pictures ended up gouging his eyes out, and the store manager claimed he was being lenient by not insisting that I be charged with felonious racy-ness.
m00pa
July 23rd, 2012
Creepy -vs- Stupid
You decide which is which … I’m out.
Unneutral
July 23rd, 2012
I anin’t no lawyer, (thank god), but the male employee may be putting himself at risk for legal problems.
Grim Reaper
July 23rd, 2012
That’s a typo, right?
“Racist” photos…nothing “racy” from that beauty.
cfm990
July 23rd, 2012
Of herself for herself. And kept them on her phone? Where was it that you expected to have the urge to look. In Church? At the PTA? During a job interview? Mamma Gump was right. Stupid is as stupid does.
Step 1. Remove all compromising material.
Step 2. Hire a geek.
Give them boys something to run with, and run they will. You could have been the interwebs newest sensation
Barry
July 23rd, 2012
My dear ‘ole dad always said there’s nothing pretty about a woman sittin’ on the shitter with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth.
Whatever happened to gettin’ a 6-pack of Bud, a Hustler, and beatin’ off?
Sheesh! The perverts these days, psst.
norman einstein
July 23rd, 2012
What a fucking idiot.
pops
July 23rd, 2012
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. and we are supposed to feel sorry for her? shes sexy in her own mind.
Bob M.
July 23rd, 2012
Uhmmm… judging by THIS photo, when the article says “racey,” I assume they mean, like a “horse.”
Put a bit & bride in THAT mouth and throw a saddle on her – she’s ready to star in “Sex & the City III!”
Plain Jane
July 23rd, 2012
Bet she’s an Obummer fan.
Plain Jane
July 23rd, 2012
Is it a gobment issue?
RANDO
July 23rd, 2012
@ Norm– Which one?!
Goldenfoxx
July 23rd, 2012
Self centered if you ask me!
AbigailAdams
July 23rd, 2012
It was her phone. She apparently paid to have it replaced/fixed. The guy stole her property and it sounds as though he is extoring her.
If being stupid was a crime, we’d all be in the jug. If being self-centered was a crime, ditto.
Property rights are at the heart of our American Republic. If God was there, too, she wouldn’t have had to worry about “racey” pictures.
Jim
July 23rd, 2012
My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
The Doktor
July 24th, 2012
I don’t know about anyone else but I’d liked to see what her nipples look like.
MNHawk
July 24th, 2012
What an idiot! Anyone knows you should go to anyone other than Geek Squad for repairs.
Yes, she’s dumb for leaving them on her phone, but Best Buy is wide open for a lawsuit on this.