Lawsuit: Couple says they were spied on while having sex in Denver hotel room...

KDVR TV ^ | May 20, 2020 | Rob Low

[L.A.Justice]

DENVER (KDVR) — A Texas couple believes they were spied on while having sex in their Denver hotel room.

Now, Nathan and Christina Parks have filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court against DoubleTree by Hilton for invasion of privacy.

The married couple, both 35, were staying at a Double Tree by Hilton in the Stapleton neighborhood in September 2019.

When Nathan opened the door on the morning of Sept. 11, 2019, he said he discovered the door’s peephole laying on the floor of the hallway outside his room.

“When I opened the door and I looked at it from the outside, I could tell that there was a smudge mark where somebody’s face and handprints were up on the door. Clearly they were peeking into our room,” said Nathan Parks.

His wife Christina told the Problem Solvers she was mortified someone had likely spied on them the night before.

“They might’ve captured our intimate moments together or even us just being naked in the room,” she said.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Denver District Court alleges, “Defendant admitted that the room had recently been renovated and that peephole on Plaintiffs’ hotel door was not secured with Loctite glue. Defendant immediately fixed the peephole while Plaintiffs were completing their information for Defendant’s hotel security.”

The couple’s attorney, Colleen Calandra, said the hotel essentially deleted evidence by having the door fixed while the couple was in the process of filing a police report with Denver police.

“Even more disturbing is that the hotel does not have cameras in the stairwell and so essentially anyone could be moving around the hotel through the stairways and be unseen,” said Calandra, who is director of the employment division for the Ramos Law firm.

In a statement to FOX31, the hotel chain denied any wrongdoing:

[L.A.Justice]

“We wanted adult time and grown-up time away from our small children and so, you know, you have this premise of expecting privacy and having a little alone time. We were intimate with each other and enjoying a date night with each other, just feel humongously violating that somebody likely was witness to that and may have even taken video of that or photos we don’t know what’s out there,” said Christina Parks.

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Expecting privacy in a hotel room...

In any case, please be careful when you go to a hotel...This couple had a bad experience...

How about covering the peephole from inside?

[cranked]

Funny how people hate to be ‘spied’ on while having sex but enjoy the hell out of watching viewer submitted porn vids. Hmmmm. /s

[rfp1234]

The peephole was “laying” on the floor?

[Williams]

I call bs no evidence anybody watched anything.

[L.A.Justice]

The peephole was “laying” on the floor?

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I guess somebody took out the peephole from the door...

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I wonder how many times the article author has to explain he’s not that Rob Low(e) on the phone.

[cicero2k]

Was the wife’s name Karen? Plausible construction error, no evidence of intent.

[irishjuggler]

I’ve stayed in a fair number of hotels, and it’s a pretty unusually laid out room that would offer a direct view of the upper part of bed from the entry door. The typical layout is bathroom immediately to the left or right upon entering and then the foot of the bed just beyond the bathroom wall. Granted, I have no idea if the room in question followed the standard layout, and it’s possible that it doesn’t. But it just sounds weird. Hypothesis... maybe the peephole glass wasn’t securely glued in, and it did fall out when these folks opened or closed the door. No evidence of any spying, but these people saw an opportunity for a $$$ payday. Everyone heard about TV personality Erin Andrews getting millions from a hotel chain when she was a victim of spying.

[redshawk]

Kramer and peephole. ..
https://youtu.be/o8exxJhSEIk

[alexander_busek]

The peephole was “laying” on the floor?

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I guess somebody took out the peephole from the door...

The peephole was lying on the floor. Or: The peephole lay on the floor.

A lot of native speakers seem to have difficulty selecting the correct verb ("to lie" as opposed to "to lay") and onjugating their verbs.

A carpet-layer might lie on the floor (or be lying on the floor) while he is laying carpet.

Regards,

[mrsmith]

LOL!
Used to be no one would care.
But these days heterosexual sex may be quite a mystery...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’ve stayed in a fair number of hotels, and it’s a pretty unusually laid out room that would offer a direct view of the upper part of bed from the entry door.

Excellent point - come to think of it, I can't recall the last time I stayed in a hotel room where the front door would have a view of the bed.

[McGruff]

Now I'm no expert but I've heard stories.

[McGruff]

#Peepholegate.

[cpdiii]

Circa 1983 September, Holiday Inn Monroe, Louisiana. I forgot to lock the door. House keeping came in to put ice and water in the room at a most inconvenient time with my lady. All I could say was just GET THE HELL OUT! She did.

Even more amusing was a Holiday Inn in Casper Wyoming circa 1975. I checked in and was given a key. That was before the days of swipe keys. The dude at the desk gave me the wrong key and room number. I opened the door of my room and found two in bed most enjoying each other until I opened the door. I stood their for about two seconds and said “oh shit I am sorry” and left and closed the door. I then went to the front desk and had a conversation that started with the words “you stupid asshole.”

[angmo]

The guy in the hotel room was laying pipe.

[dp0622]

I had a summer home with my friends when we were 20. One of the guys had met a girl and took her into one of the bedrooms

We squeezed four of our necks and heads into the window for about 10 minutes before she finally looked up and screamed.

I guess she was embarrassed, being a virtuous woman who you had to know at least 45 minutes before she would sleep with you :-)

[Mark17]

I wonder if it was Obama. He seems to have a penchant for this sort of thing. 🤗

[martin_fierro]

PEOPLE .... PEOPLE WHO NEED ... PEEPHOLE

[Larry Lucido]

If this van's a rockin'