Private Investigators Have Some Strange Tasks... (r/AskReddit)

private investigators over debt what is the most visit a skewed been assigned to a couple was divorcing in the wife was sure her husband was sticking random items of hers up his ass he was so many questions did surveillance on a nurse she was supposedly so disabled that she couldn't work they suspected she was working easy as surveillance I ever did I arrived she got in her car ten minutes later followed her with no complication to a strip club where she went in and began doing her thing club had a posted prohibition on video so I had to go in and watch her dance so that like could testify that I saw her dancing when it went to court over the next few days I followed her to three other strip clubs and did the same that month I turned in the sketchiest expense report of my life eventually it went before the WC board when the judge asked why she was stripping she just shrugged and said she made twice as much money than when she was nursing the benefits got yanked insurance company was happy but the company lawyer gave me the nickname detective T which most regrettably stuck and spread to all of the other lawyers I dealt with and worst night of my life man was hired to follow a woman who claims she was completely blind collecting insurance money of course spent the day following her around that she drove from store to store in a church van jesus take the wheel someone wanted to know what their cat was up to when they were working paid me to tell it I don't like wasting my time but the works not always busy as a pie turns out the cat just walks around the streets licks itself and climbs trees I know it's not the case if I can't help imagine you carefully stalking along tree branches in the tops of fences and videoing the cat sleeping in a sunbeam for 10 hours at a clip not a PI here but someone who was confronted by one and told it it was the weirdest thing he's had to do a roommate I had in college was a strange guy this guy came from the other side of the country I'm us he went out at all hours of the night never showed up for class slept during the day and drank more energy drinks than his healthy his parents were worried about him apparently and he hired a PI to trail him now living in a college dorm in a part of campus where only freshmen live makes an adult who isn't janitorial staff stick out like a sore thumb so I picked up fairly quickly that this guy was hanging around the dorms thought he was just cruising for some freshmen and didn't bother him a few weeks later I was walking back from the dining hall and he approached me it was a public place asking if we could talk somewhere private I was weirded out and told him we could talk right here he told me he was a PI hired by my roommates parents to trail him because his parents were concerned and he wanted to ask me about my roommates dorm habits we then left to the coffee shop to talk about my roommate my roommate apparently liked to go walk on the beach at night for stupid amounts of time hang out at Steak and Shake playing game on his phone and Nintendo DS for hours on end and cruise thrift shops for some reason I told the guy that the dude just slept and didn't even have any personal effects in the room besides his clothes the PI and I both realized that this kid pretty much had no direction or motivation in life and his parents usually pushed him to do everything he said that this kid's behavior was the most bizarre pattern of activity he's pretty much seen it to explain the kids actions College was the first alone time he's ever had and he was suffering at doing whatever he wanted I ended up feeling for the guy and reached out to him he changed majors from engineering to a psychology degree because he wanted to learn how the mind works and he suddenly became super interested in college ended up being a cool guy once he realized he was nots in his parents grasp anymore this made me kinda sad because his behavior patterns kinda sound like mine I've only been away from home for two months I'll just take off to the mountains or drive around all night or shop all day just because I can parents who always want control over what their kid is doing conflict the kid right up I'm a PI among other things I haven't had any bizarre tasks though I have had some interesting situations and I've performed surveillance on cheating spouses as well as factual workers compensation and public liability matters one matter which really made an impression on me was where a person had a fatal vehicle incident and the claim was made that it was a workplace injury I don't know what on earth happened with this claim but it was five years before the insurer gave it to me there were some questions about it the person making the claim alleged to be the workers wife though work colleagues did not know her and also the incident was almost 200 kilometers from the workplace when I spoke to former colleagues a lot of them struggled to remember him this really was so sad it left a deep impression on me that what are we once we are dead if we are not even memories I did however learn he stayed at a caravan park during the working week I called it place but the owner said it had changed hands and he didn't know the guy he didn't have any old records and he didn't know where the former owner was he did remember the former owner's name however I called everyone in the phonebook for the state with that name I finally got my man and he remembered the deceased vividly along with his wife and son it was tremendous I learned the guy would stay near the workplace during the week and travel back home to remote town for weekends I drove all the way to that town but couldn't find the wife she wasn't at any address I had nor did she answer her phone I got petrol and asked at the counter if they knew the family and they said it might be so-and-so and directed me to a house I went there turned out to be the wife's parents they called the daughter she arrived and both mother and daughter had a big cry while showing me all their photographs of the guy it was very moving and I was so relieved to have real evidence the guy ever actually existed after how his co-workers were finding it hard to remember him the story was very sad he died on the way to work on a Monday morning normally he would travel to the caravan on a Friday night but this particular weekend was Mother's Day he stayed Sunday night and travelled Monday early in the morning ran off the road and passed away I was able to determine the lady genuinely his wife that he was on his way to the workplace that it was his regular route to work and so on I supplied this to the insurer I never well rarely ever hear what happens to a matter so I only hope it was finally settled finally a question I can answer being a PI for a going on a year now in the strangest case I had was of a woman asking us to find out if her husband was cheating on her she said there was something off in the house as if feeling something and she wanted to know what it was so she suspected her husband off cheating so I show up and install nanny cams in her house for the weekend upon her approval and where to place them she works all weekend and this was the best route well three days go by and I collect the footage and come to find out the husband was touching his eight-year-old stepdaughter after seeing that I rushed to the courthouse with a copy of the footage and got a court order for the police to go and get him Frick dude the mother must have been horrified any PI's ever get hired to investigate a husband because the wife was suspicious of all the times he had to work late only to find out he really was working late yes constantly all right here goes after I got out of the Navy I worked for one of the top PI firms in Houston because of my electronics background I'd usually go along on the jobs where we were checking for bugs and hidden surveillance devices we got a call from a client who was sure that his office was bugged because his client knew everything that he was doing before he did it his office was a mobile trailer that was on his client site he was a subcontractor for a big oilfield construction company we did a full electronic sweep and found nothing this was back in the early 90s didn't have to worry about burst transmissions etc no devices implanted in his phones he insisted on a full physical sweep of the trailer inside and out so we crawled under the trailer and got a ladder and inspected the roof still nothing we're getting ready to leave and he says look I'm not crazy pick up the phone press nine to get an outside line and you'll start hearing all sorts or clicky sounds turns out his office phones were through the corporate PBX of his clients they didn't have to bug his office they could just pick up an extension inside the main building and listen in to whatever they wanted we weren't even sure if it was illegal we advised him to install a private phone line that he paid for if he wanted private conversations we ended up billing him like two grand for that visit hey man you're kinda adult bTW $2,000 please I had a case referred to me by an attorney I worked for involving a woman who was convinced that her condo maintenance man was going into her home while she was gone and moving things around but she had bought the condo from him originally in other words it was his former condo I met her to discuss the case and she seemed rational she was an attractive older woman the guy would obviously be familiar with the condo layout and words of access and heck I've seen where the things so we proceeded she agreed to let me install a hidden camera set up with a motion detector she was to call me if anything happened to make her think he'd been there a couple of days go by and she calls I go by and get the tape this was before digital recording and check it out there's nothing on it but her I meet her to tell her this and she says he must have some machine that makes him invisible he's a space alien after all she had not previously mentioned this vital tidbit of information I told her that that level of technology was beyond my ability to deal with in that we should talk it over with her attorney to determine the best course of action going forward I called the attorney to let him know that our client had some issues and we were able to get her some psychological help but most importantly her check was good meanwhile a malicious alien is out there somewhere breaking into condos because you let him go free I have a story about this my brother was a PI in the early 90s he worked for a law firm I was in my early twenties and so he got me a gig as a process server he was working a particularly nasty divorce case husband was a Jordanian national married to an American woman one of several wives who was over being the broodmare the family and wanted out also she worked for NASA he was tasked with going into their house which was in her name she wasn't living there she was in an apartment until this was settled and getting a briefcase with financial information in it since I was a process server I had to go along in case someone was home for whatever reason we went and waited down the road until everyone left and went in and got the briefcase no big deal we take it back to the attorney's office and he calls the lady and says he has it she gives him the combination he opens it and it was full of technical plans from Boeing for the Apache helicopter attorney says Frick instantly shuts the briefcase tells me and my brother to leave now so we did we never heard any more about that case at all other than he contacted the FBI over it I have a question how likely is it that a PI will lie about who he works for to protect her client my sister was worried she was being followed she is adopting a baby and the baby has an adult sister who wants her but has failed CPS basic standards she is being investigated because she broke into my sister's medical records she worked in the doctor's office my family goes to - basically she is at the point she has been so nasty she is losing her supervise decision - because the lawyers and CPS believe she is trying to take the baby and run a private I fell down and broke his leg in her backyard she lives in a condo complex he claims he wasn't gathering intel on her but won't say who he is actually working for he knows it would be enough to file for a rillette reining order we think it is too much of a coincidence and his lying I wonder how likely it is he is lying dealing a standard pre-employment background check on a guy found that he was found guilty in a sexual harassment case didn't have the case details at that point and the guide denied it was him pulled more details from the case and confirmed that it was definitely him and that he was convicted of indecent exposure the guy finally admitted it was him but claimed it wasn't as bad as it seemed hold the court transcripts turns out he flashed a 12 year-old on the beach and said ever seen one of these before he did not get the job I worked for a PI company that mostly handled workers compensation cases for insurance companies or other employers assigned to a case in Seattle where a guy was claiming him up a back and shoulder injury after a few hours on-site at his house he pulls up in a truck proceeds to empty the truck bed of landscaping equipment alone after he has put everything away he walks over to the side of his neighbor's house pulls out a piece of the siding of the building withdraws a crack pipe and smokes it in front of me all on camera another case in Texas I was following a guy back injury to the mall where he met up with a woman that was not his wife I had already identified her the previous day and followed them as they shopped around and then back to his vehicle where they proceeded to have sex in the car in the middle of the mall parking lot I filmed it of course but I had to call my boss to make sure that I could send this to the client she was kind of hot too so in the middle of the mall parking lot where else would they do it you savage I was asked to help my boss fire another investigator due to his short temper I was told to arrive at 7:30 because he likes to arrive at 8 o'clock so like any other day I woke up and started to drive to work through a freaking blizzard and didn't end up getting there till 7:40 my boss and says he already fired the guy what a freak man what if he lashed out and what not and I wasn't there his reply was he didn't but he wanted me to stick around just in case so I sat there for four hours drinking coffee on double time which was great until I had to file a two-page report on me drinking coffee my raah my sophomore year of college was a part-time PI and bragged about it to the co-ed underclassmen few weeks before spring break he's seen with bruising and black eyes some guy he had been following to catch in an affair got ahold of him and beat him senseless seems like a prime case to charge for assault a college of mine was a PI he said the majority of his case workers and tailing people but serving court notices he told me of a variety of really slimy ways he'd served people including disguises high-pressure tactics and weird social engineering he's out of it now because had too many close calls serving divorce papers or notices of being sued where you have no idea of the state of mind of the person you're serving to could get interesting to say the least I once served a County Sheriff district's attorney district judge and a sitting federal judge for the same case the case was that they threw a different pie in jail on contempt charges and wouldn't let him out or give him a hearing good times I did surveillance for insurance fraud workers comp cases for a short time we would usually just be assigned to someone for a couple of days unless we found something that warranted more time on my first day watching this guy he leaves his house about seven hours into the eighth hour for me day I follow him out of the neighborhood out of the town onto the highway still on the highway into the metro area into downtown oh crap where is this guy going to and into a valley parking ramp I panics a bit because I had my video camera laptop and all the background paperwork sitting on the passenger's seat next to me I was able to shovel that stuff away or grab it into a pocket before I turned the car over to the valet ended up riding the elevator route off the garage with the guy and his family they were going to see the seasonal holiday light parade thing so that was nice to watch at least the fact I could sell my $700 crap car for $2,000 here paying $20 shipping for a ten trillion dollar shirt from Seattle going to Canada for a quick drink at 19 and the insanity that is living and going to school somewhere three towns over source live born in Alaska went to middle high school down south I got hired to follow another investigator who turns out was hired to follow me someone had some money to burn how do you even become a private investigator the Lady of the lake her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite holds aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by divine providence that you are to be a private investigator okay not a PI but my boss hired one he never told me but I was snooping around the network one day and came across a document that was cut and pasted emails between the boss and a PI I worked for a playground design construction company very small and the boss was an absolute prick he may have been bitter because he would be happy one minute and then the tiniest problem like a sly being a different color to what he thought it should be would send him off the rails for the rest of the day anyway according to this document he was suspicious that his competitor was able to offer playgrounds cheaper than him and still make money he had a strong suspicion that a competitor was using illegal immigrants to build the playgrounds and paying them in cash for less than the minimum wage this is in Australia not the US so this is probably very uncommon here the PI went to a construction site and talked to the workers he returned a report that stated that the workers were cooperative they did not appear to be foreign they spoke English very well they even showed him their driver's licenses he left totally satisfied that the workers were legitimate Australian citizens boss refused to pay the rest of the document was the PI arguing that he did work and should be paid for it a few thousand dollars I think while but old boss argument was that the workers were definitely illegal immigrants he just knew it and if the PI couldn't prove it then he wasn't a very good PI and therefore shouldn't be paid I was asked by a lady to investigate her husband because he might be cheating on her he used to come back late at night with smell of woman's perfume turns out he was taking dancing classes and he didn't tell his wife clients wanted to know why her dog was getting fat turns out the dog was getting fed by almost every stranger it encountered while wandering around outside during the day second I found a lady who'd been missing for 20 years out of pure dumb luck I was getting lunch another town over and she walked out of a resale shop across the street it was so unexpected that the only footage I could get on her was with my crappy phone camera otherwise I don't get a ton of bizarre cases most of the time I'm just doing insurance fraud cases since that's where the money is the most interesting part is looking at their background info and piecing together what kind of person they are based on their spending habits then you take that information make a quick and dirty psychological profile and try to predict their movements based on it I've gotten pretty good at it a private investigator came into the bar I was bartending as years ago and showed me two pictures one of a girl in her early twenties that her family was trying to find the other of a guy in his late 20s that they suspected she had run away with the guy in the picture had a charge on his debit card from my borrow week earlier so the investigator came in hoping that I would remember if the girl was with him that night I did not recognize the girl at all but I remembered the guy he had come in with two other guys around his age they got pretty drunk middle they really did was shoot pool they didn't cause any problems and they actually tipped me really well I never heard anything else about the girl so I don't know if the family eventually found her or if she disappeared for good I just now remembered that her first name was Katie I can't remember the guys name though is anybody else reading all these stories in a 1920s voice I am now this is the goodest flyboy he will bring you ten years of happiness in exchange for a like on this video I hope you enjoyed the video if 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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 24 2019