I think it’s kind of weird that people feel the need to fill their homes with surveillance cameras that are constantly monitoring everything they do and potentially sharing it with the whole world because the security on those things can be pretty damn bad, but maybe it’s all worth it if you can catch one home inspector turning your 2-year-old’s Tickle Me Elmo doll into a friggin bio hazard.
VanLuven was inspecting the Oxford Township home on behalf of a potential purchaser. The home’s owners had let VanLuven, another inspector, the buyers, and a real estate agent into the property.
When the inspection began, the owners and their two small boys left the three-bedroom house. After two hours had passed, homeowner Jaida Dodson remotely accessed her home security cameras to check on the progress of the inspection.
At a court hearing last year, Dodson testified that she saw VanLuven remove a Tickle Me Elmo doll that had been among stuffed animals stored in a small teepee tent in the bedroom of Dodson’s two-year-old son. VanLuven then allegedly “unzipped his pants and began masturbating in our son’s closet with his Tickle Me Elmo,” Dodson recalled.After Dodson called police, an officer confronted VanLuven at the residence. The cop reported that VanLuven “admitted to placing his penis in Elmo’s mouth, in the doll’s mouth” and “apologized and said he was ashamed.”
He was found guilty of one count of aggravated indecent exposure, but acquitted of malicious destruction of property. I can only assume that the property in question was poor Elmo, which is pretty funny, actually.
I’m ruined. In the Elmo’s song, some of those dings make me think of Whatsapp noises, which made me wonder if this was some kind of updated twisted version.
The only twisted version I can think of right off hand is this one. Pretty sure it was on one of those tapes a bunch of us used to pass around back in the day.