Models: Landlord hid cameras in bathroom
Tiny hidden cameras may mean big legal problems for a Florida landlord who rented an apartment to two Bulgarian women he’d hired as models.
Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women. (From Bay 9 TV)
The St. Petersburg Times reports the two women, Vanya Samokovareva, 22, and Ralitsa Dzhambazova, 23, lived in a Tampa apartment for two months and joked about the bathroom and bedroom smoke detectors being cameras, but were shocked when a male visitor Googled serial codes on the devices and learned they were indeed high-tech peepholes.
Wires led to a locked closet which contained an electronic box and something that appeared to be a WiFi device.
Now, the women think videos of them showering are on the Internet.
No suspect has been named, but the women say their landlord has a key to the apartment.
Hillsborough County investigators have recovered some of the electronic equipment, but after a local TV station reported the news, some devices were removed from the apartment.
The women, who had been hired by their landlord to dress up like superheroes, plan to fly the coop at month’s end.
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55 comments Add your comment
BLAGO
July 28th, 2011
2:48 pm
OMG THEY ARE GAWGEOUS!!!
Junior
July 28th, 2011
2:56 pm
“Models” according to the story I read earlier today, they did a couple of photoshoots for a local pizza joint…that being said, I’d tap that until the cows come home
Senior
July 28th, 2011
3:12 pm
Junior, you wouldn’t last 8 seconds in that. I would be lucky if I lasted 3.
Ugo
July 28th, 2011
3:12 pm
This keeps occurring time and time again, when will people learn? http://bit.ly/HMIku
Fred
July 28th, 2011
3:29 pm
I love the photo caption “Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women.”. Hello, have you seen them?
good idea
July 28th, 2011
3:33 pm
awesome!
Aaron
July 28th, 2011
3:46 pm
I’m with you Fred…”what motive”….umm free naked hot women
outspoken1
July 28th, 2011
3:48 pm
Enter your comments here
DLink
July 28th, 2011
3:49 pm
UMMMmmm… No shower curtains.
outspoken1
July 28th, 2011
3:49 pm
I am reserving comment until I view ALL the footage for myself. I will report back to each of you my findings.
Enter bad joke here....
July 28th, 2011
4:04 pm
Sounds like the landlord got caught with his pants down!
Read between the lines
July 28th, 2011
4:06 pm
Ummmm, a male visitor is in an apt with two hot babes and he spends his time googling?!? I’d be more worried about the “male visitor”!
BLAGO
July 28th, 2011
4:08 pm
yes, a full, repeated viewing of all footage is a must…i will bring the scotch..
Ivan Drago
July 28th, 2011
4:10 pm
If he peeps…he peeps!
The Truth
July 28th, 2011
4:26 pm
You can bet the cops will take days and days to “review” all the film.
Captain Obvious
July 28th, 2011
4:29 pm
The caption on the picture is priceless.
joe
July 28th, 2011
4:30 pm
I can’t believe all the sophomoric comments from you bloggers…ya’ll are pathetic. The one single motivation the landlord had for installing the cameras was free “porn” to “wax on, wax off.”
@joe
July 28th, 2011
4:41 pm
The landlord already had his “wax on” and was looking to get his “wax off”……still sophomoric or did I graduate to junioric??
Wally
July 28th, 2011
4:48 pm
Fred, Guessing they should have used the sarcasm font.
Going to Bulgaria
July 28th, 2011
5:05 pm
Who’s coming with me?
@Going to Bulgaria
July 28th, 2011
5:22 pm
Answer: One of the models if you came time it right.
Dzhambazova.
July 28th, 2011
5:24 pm
“One night I had dream that someone watch me when I was naked.”
Poging Tulisan
July 28th, 2011
5:26 pm
“Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women.” REALLY?? SERIOUSLY??
mwj
July 28th, 2011
5:46 pm
DUDE! WHICH 1 OF TAMPA’S FINEST STRIP CLUBS R THEY WORKIN @
Tomorrow's Headlines
July 28th, 2011
5:47 pm
“Homeless man who hasn’t eaten in weeks caught stealing food…..police not sure of motive”
Kat
July 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
What do we know about this?
1) SOME devices were removed
2) They were asked to model as superheroes
3) They will move out by the end of the month; hey, you gotta get your money’s worth, right?
4) Motive = not known
Boris Badnoff
July 28th, 2011
6:42 pm
Photos of the cameras can be found at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019603/Two-female-students-shock-finding-hidden-cameras-room-apartment.html
How did two women from Europe get such deep tans? If they want to move I have a spare room and will pay airfare to Atlanta.
Kurt Martin
July 28th, 2011
6:43 pm
Anybody who finds a hidden camera in their bathroom or bedroom needs to call the police ASAP, tell the officer you want a detective to get a search warrant for the rest of the home and the computer(s) of the landlord, wherever they may be found, including portable laptops.
Then you need to monitor and secure the crime scene until the cops show up and document what they find. The criminal could be watching you find the camera LIVE, and as soon as you leave the apartment, he could come with his tool kit and take away the evidence in minutes.
Demontravius
July 28th, 2011
6:44 pm
Caption under the photo “Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women. (From Bay 9 TV)”
Wow they maybe need to return to cop school for refresher training if they can’t piece together a motive.
diclong
July 28th, 2011
8:30 pm
Eat Boffum like a wild dog——————–
hawwtays
July 28th, 2011
9:26 pm
i think we might need to amend that new immigration law – allowing for smokin hot bulgarian girls to do work that homely girls cannot
Panties
July 28th, 2011
11:53 pm
I can easily understand the motivation. My God! I wonder if they have some sisters to share with me.
Lord Sahin III
July 29th, 2011
5:32 am
This landlord fellow is my hero. He hires the models and he just happens to have an apartment to rent them. Awesome.
Web Me
July 29th, 2011
7:19 am
what is the website for viewing these hot chicks in the shower?
Eric
July 29th, 2011
7:20 am
This guy is a scumbag. But honestly, you post a picture of the girls and this “Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women.” Umm, i’m no rocket scientist but maybe its because they are attractive?
Old Geezer
July 29th, 2011
7:47 am
Meh…I’ve seen better looking women secretly videotaped. You can tell the are fighting the fat of their heritage, give em 15 years and they’ll be busting out of their skinny pants into one big doughy full body muffin top.
Marv Allbert
July 29th, 2011
8:02 am
I’d like to bite me some bulgarian babes
RobWPB
July 29th, 2011
9:37 am
BOOOOIIIIIIIIIIINNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Jim
July 29th, 2011
9:39 am
Police are not sure what the motive was???
To see two gorgeous women naked….DUH
snowcone
July 29th, 2011
12:44 pm
Meh…they are slightly above average but not exactly gorgeous. On a scale of 1-10…7 at the very most.
tomas
July 29th, 2011
1:16 pm
that landlord must have been masturbating like a retarded monkey in a cage.
Slightly Dusty
July 29th, 2011
2:10 pm
I would like the opportunity to view any footage for myself before judging what happened to whom and when
woodrow
July 29th, 2011
2:42 pm
That’s pretty ingenious. Hire models, lie to them about why, give them a room, and spy-cam them for profit. That’s so capitalistic.
bout
July 29th, 2011
2:48 pm
people’s comments are hilarious
Randy C
July 29th, 2011
2:56 pm
Too bad they aren’t dudes….if they were i’d be all over this!!!
B GTA hondaboy
July 29th, 2011
3:18 pm
Randy, didn’t know you were into the same things I am. I go to the gym everyday at 12, you should come join me.
POOP TOOTH
July 29th, 2011
3:18 pm
I think my name says it all.
The Painful Truth
July 29th, 2011
3:25 pm
I could not begin to imagine why anyone would want to video tape these two fine young ladsies in the shower or getting ready to go to bed. I will have to stidy the tapes very carefully and write a full report.
The Painful Truth
July 29th, 2011
3:27 pm
As part of my investation I will be required to interview both of these “persons of interest” and also see them ude in person to compare them to the video fottage and make sure they are the same ones seen in it ~ ; )
The Painful Truth
July 29th, 2011
3:29 pm
Of course these two young ladies came to this country and took the “modeling jobs” — without really knowing what was expected of them -
Andrew
July 29th, 2011
3:52 pm
Nice job…. you just gave some out of work models all the free press they can handle. BS on the cameras, they knew exactly what they were doing. Yes, their videos are online.
Google. shower cams
leo the bulgarian
July 29th, 2011
10:34 pm
that’s how those two ambitious, young, deprived, ex-comunist individuals can be famous and on the news. look at you. everyone is bragging on how to watch this stupid video.
don’t you get it? stupid morons. they are here for a cause: ( THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES)…………..its all a cenario.
leo the bulgarian
July 29th, 2011
10:40 pm
women in that country are cheaper that a chicken, here they will be stars.
GG
August 1st, 2011
3:20 pm
LMAO!!! There are so many perverts in this world that its sickening.
cryptkeeper
August 8th, 2011
2:41 am
These girls are from Bulgaria? Only thing I want to know is what time is the next flight to Bulgaria?