33 - Pocket Narcissist

Well, I can start if you'd like.

Yes, please.

How do you feel about smart home things?

Oh, for me to poop on?

Actually, two of my stories are about smart homes, so I'm just going to bring them both.

The first one has to do with a husband in Taiwan who, So the link I have for this one, the title that I gave it is smart home just means that your things can testify against you because that's kind of the larger theme.

But the story here is a man in Taiwan notices signs of an affair, specifically a toothbrush, parking garage, CCTV footage, stuff like that, and decides he wants some proof so that he can go to court and get everything in the divorce.

So.

He uses the built-in cameras on his robot vacuum, which of course comes with an app that you can use to look through the app and see what the robot sees.

And he used the robot vacuum to spy on his wife and her lover.

Why does a vacuum need a camera?

Well, presumably so that it knows which cat to vacuum up, but I'm not sure.

Considering these things just motor around bumping into walls and couches, again, I don't know why a Roomba needs a camera.

Either way, the end result of this guy doing it was that he got 500,000 Taiwanese dollars, whatever that is, NT 500,000, which works out to about 16,000 U.S., in judgment in the divorce because his wife was cheating on him.

And then the judge turned around and said, oh, and you are now officially fined $150,000, about five grand U.S., because it's not legal to spy on people without their consent, and you get five months in prison.

Oh, that's ugly.

So he netted himself $350,000 and five months in prison and a divorce.

Nice work.

Winner.

I still think he got the better end.

Well, if you remember, that's only about $10,000 and you just spent five months in prison.

Again, five months for 10 grand.

Well, and a divorce.

Yeah.

Which might be worth it.