After traveling out of town for the weekend, Harmony Hechey
was in need of a hotel room and decided to stay at a local Travelodge.
However, things quickly took a turn after she hopped in the shower,
looked up, and made quite the disturbing find tucked away in a vent
overhead.
According to the 23-year-old woman, she traveled to Oxford,
England from her home in Edinburgh with a few colleagues, as she was
working at an event in the area over the weekend. Needing a place to
rest their heads for the night, the group booked rooms at the Oxford
Wheatley Travelodge.
The hotel’s website
boasts that it “is just 2 miles from the beautiful village of Wheatley,
offering plenty of opportunity to explore the surrounding landscapes.”
Unfortunately for Ms. Hechey, she was about to find out that someone was
taking that literally.
After hopping in the shower, you can imagine her surprise to
look up and notice that a small electronic device was hidden behind the
shower vent. “I was absolutely disgusted,” she said. “I got a fork and
stuck it in the vent. You could see so clearly it was a camera.”
After conferring with a few of her colleagues, they all
agreed that it was in fact a webcam pointed at the location she was
standing naked in the shower. “I broke down at one point. I just felt so
violated,” Hechey added.
As it turns out, that’s not exactly the whole story. She went on to
say, “One of the girls had a shower and then I went in.” Once realizing
what she saw, she snapped a few photos of the device, and immediately
went down to the front desk to complain.
Mirror
reports, “It is believed the webcam was installed via a maintenance
unit which backs onto the room.” Police were quickly notified as well,
but after a brief investigation, stated that a USB device connected to
the camera wasn’t switched on at the time. They are, however, still
looking for the party responsible.
Understandably uncomfortable with her room, hotel management moved Ms. Hechey and eventually offered her a full refund as well.
It seems that we live amid a flurry of perverts these days,
with the information age only making things easier for peeping toms to
sneak an uninvited look. Words couldn’t describe the amount of outrage I
would feel over such an invasion of privacy, but hopefully the person
responsible is caught so that no others have to go through what Hechey
did.
How do you think you would react after stumbling across such a sight?
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