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The Erin Andrews Peeping Incident: Isolated Creep or Common Occurrence?

July 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM | by Jenna | 1 Comment

Here's one, if you haven't heard it already, that will send tingles up your spine: blonde ESPN reporter Erin Andrews — the crush object of many a sports fan (and many a lady-fan, really) — was changing in her (still unidentified) hotel room while a still-at-large creeper filmed her through what looks like a peephole. Ugh.

The video footage was uploaded to a website and is still making its way around the internet, though an expert source interviewed by Deadspin believes that the footage was shot from an adjoining hotel room using "a gooseneck or fiber-optic camera [threaded] through a hole in the wall about a quarter-inch across."

While both scenarios — peephole or hole in the wall — are pretty vom-inducing, we've gotta take a time out to wonder exactly how much this sort of thing happens; how many incidents of this occur without us ever hearing (or, yeesh, knowing) about it.

This could very well have been a hotel staffer who knew Andrews' room number; it could have been another guest at the hotel or someone who wandered in off the street. At this point, nobody knows — but suddenly doin' the ol' 6th-grade-gym-class-locker-room clothing change maneuver doesn't seem quite so unappealing anymore, even in the relative privacy of a hotel room.

Here are some HotelChatter tips to avoid creeps (we're sure they're super-helpful):

1. Put dark tape over your peephole.
2. Don't stay in hotels.
3. Don't be famous.

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  1. rincon88

    HotelChatter Member

    yessh

    or just change in the bathroom.
    July 21, 2009 at 8:19 PM

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