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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:53 AM Feb 2017

Pastor says car salesman swiped wife's nude photos from his iPhone, sent them to swingers' site

A year ago, Tim and Claire Gautreaux walked into a car dealership in Grapevine to buy a new Prius. They say the car-buying process was what you'd expect: long and tedious.

But what happened behind the scenes is now the focus of a lawsuit against the dealership and a former sales director, who also faces criminal charges.
Police believe Matthew Luke Thomas, the car sales director, found nude photos of Claire Gautreaux on her husband's phone and forwarded them to an email address for a swingers' website.

Thomas, 44, is charged in Tarrant County with computer security breach, a class B misdemeanor. This week, the Gautreauxs filed suit against Thomas, Texas Toyota of Grapevine and Toyota Motor North America in a Dallas County court, alleging breach of contract, intrusion, negligence and public disclosure of private facts.

Gautreaux had his pre-approved financing document saved on an application on his phone. The salesman who was helping them asked to borrow his phone so he could show the information to his manager...

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/12/01/pastor-says-car-salesman-swiped-wifes-nude-photos-phone-sent-swingers-site

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ProfessorGAC

(64,420 posts)
2. Borrow The Phone So He Could Show Info To Manager?
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:05 AM
Feb 2017

Answer: No. I'll send the information to an email address. You're not getting my unlocked phone.

While the car salesman is a slimeball, the pastor doesn't seem to bright either. (Well, they were buying one the ugliest cars on the planet, so maybe that's a clue.)

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
9. What the good pastor and his wife get up to together ain't my business. They deserve their
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:30 PM
Feb 2017

privacy as long as it involves consenting adults.

 

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)
12. Heck.....having gone through a horrible divorce, I can tell you that if the good pastor
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:46 PM
Feb 2017

and his wife are trying to keep the romance and maybe spice it up, it's laudable. I hope they aren't hypocrites about other people's sex lives...but no one deserves shame and humiliation for the wants and needs of consenting adults.

Orrex

(63,085 posts)
13. Yeah, I hate when shit like this happens
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:49 PM
Feb 2017

Invariably (not on DU so much, but in general) there's a wave of "well what did they expect" as if the victims are "asking for it" simply because of what they do in private.

We see it when celebrities' phones are hacked, and we see it in cases like this.


Infuriating, every time.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
4. Any story that starts with "Pastor says..." is immediately suspect in my book.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 10:25 AM
Feb 2017

This may have occurred just as claimed but it makes me wonder if the pastor isn't trying to cover up his and his wife's swinging lifestyle by blaming someone else.

I mean, what are the odds when a pastor and sex are both involved?
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OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
17. I'm an atheist who rarely passes up an opportunity to shit on religious hypocrisy
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 04:14 PM
Feb 2017

But I don't think this is it.

I was raised in a fundamentalist baptist home and even we were taught that what two consenting adults (married to each other!) did with each other was between them and nobody else's business. Naturally they didn't go into much detail but we got the impression that two married folks were allowed to have whatever fun they wanted. And in general, there is nothing wrong with folks taking pictures for each other. The wrong here is in stealing those pics.

If this happened as reported here I hope they at least win something from the salesman. Don't go through people's shit, asshole.

jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
15. The case against Toyota Motor North America will be thrown out
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 04:01 PM
Feb 2017

Toyota of Grapevine is a private business with a dealership arrangement with Toyota, not a subsidiary of Toyota. Since they have no control of the Toyota store outside of their contracted arrangement, this isn't Toyota's fault.

I'd like to be either the prosecutor or the Gautreaux' attorney..."Mr. Thomas, exactly what led you to the mistaken impression that combing through someone's phone is in any way an acceptable thing to do?" (Do they have a weekend class you can take that'll turn you into a lawyer?)

And...umm...don't financing pre-approval apps beam your information to the car dealer so the server in the back room can decide whether you're financially worthy to buy one of their cars? Which would mean the dealer already had that information.

Chiyo-chichi

(3,563 posts)
16. I was just surprised that "Matthew Luke Thomas" is the name of the car salesman & not the pastor.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 04:09 PM
Feb 2017

3 Bible names and all.

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