A UK woman started suspecting her husband of cheating after checking the data on her electric toothbrush companion app and noticing that they were brushing at odd times of the day. Paul Jones, a British private investigator with over a decade of experience, recently recounted one of his most unusual cases.
Catching a cheating partner in the act is rare, but rarer still is catching them cheating with the help of an electric toothbrush. And yet, it can happen! One of Jones’ clients, a married mother-of-two who was trying to improve her children’s brushing habits by monitoring their electronic toothbrush use via a smartphone app, noticed that the brush was being used at strange times of the day when her kids were supposed to be at school and her husband at work.
After making sure her kids were indeed at school, she confronted her husband, who claimed to have been away at work all day.
“Over time, the client noticed their partner’s brushing history was being logged at odd times, times when they were supposedly at work,” Jones said.
“At first, it didn’t seem like much, brushing late in the morning on Fridays didn’t raise immediate red flags.” But, over time, the woman started to see a pattern. The electric toothbrush was being used on Friday mornings, a time when her husband was supposed to be at work. In reality, her spouse hadn’t been to work on Friday morning in months.
Instead, he had been having an affair with a colleague right in the family home, knowing no one would be there. “It’s time-stamped, often location-based, and emotionless,” Jones said about the data logged by smart devices these days. “When a device says someone brushed their teeth at 10:48 am when they were supposed to start work at 9 am, that’s very hard to explain away.”
Jones warned cheating partners that smart devices like voice assistants and toothbrushes can hold incriminating information, and no matter how deceitful they are as people, “innocent data” can get them caught.
Culled from www.odditycentral.com