Hooters Videos
 

I don't know if anyone has seen the news about the Hooters girls being videoed without their knowledge in LA. Does anyone have any of those videos? Lets see them!

My understanding, from what I read in the newspaper, is the police (LAPD?) have the videos, the computers on which they were saved, the backups, the camera, and the memory cards. I would expect them to share the videos with the Los Angeles County District Attorney, the crime lab, and in due course, with the defense. They will make head shots from the images still unidentified, and will probably show them to the people they know who interviewed, in hopes they will recognize friends, after they try to match the images with the job apps. Women who interviewed are already coming to the police.

If the perp hasn't already shown those pictures, I wouldn't expect them to circulate now. Certainly not until after the trial is over, all the appeals are finished, and the civil suits are put to bed.

If I had those images, and had a site where they'd be appropraite, there is no way in hell I'd post them before the trial. The risk of becoming a defendant or a conspirator is just too great.

Better you should hope to see some of the fifty thousand other images which the photographer who did Dr. Laura is alleged to have taken. She is such a virtuous woman.

This is going to be such a high profile case that it might even end up on cable; perhaps on Court TV, or if not there, then surely on the Food Channel.

When the criminal case is finished, expect Hooters to be the defendant in one hell of a big lawsuit. Probably a class action lawsuit, with several classes: 1) the women in the images, 2) the women not in the images who interviewed at that trailer, 3) the women who thought about interviewing, 4) other Hooters employees everywhere, and 5) women who interviewed at other Hooters. Other defendants will surely include the Hooters employee who did the interviewing, and perhaps other Hooters employees, and about a thousand John Does and Jane Does. They may not have a good enough case, but there sure as hell is an attorney who is willing to get his or her name in the papers and on the boob tube.

WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) -- Digital videos of Hooters job seekers undressing were found on a computer seized from a trailer used by applicants at a new restaurant, police said.

Investigators found 180 videos of women, ages 17 to 25, who were asked to slip into Hooters uniforms, police said Wednesday.

Police were notified of possible video recording in late January, when two young women independently filed police reports saying that they believed they were secretly recorded during their interviews.

"We are dealing with victims who are shocked and feel betrayed," police Lt. Mark Dettor said.

Police also searched the home of Juan Aponte, 32, of Arcadia, a former general manager for the Hooters in Pasadena who no longer works for the company.

Aponte has not been arrested or charged. His attorney, Brian Michaels, declined to comment on the investigation and said his client would plead innocent to any possible charges.

Police said they will present their findings soon to prosecutors.

Hooters attorney Justin Johl said the company was outraged by the discovery and was conducting its own investigation.

Police Chief Frank Wills said Hooters cooperated fully with the investigation.