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[ca] Apartment Complex Came In For A "plumbing Emergency" And Ended Up Taking Photos Of Our Baby Wipes

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We were notified a hour before saying the staff is coming in for a plumbing emergency. We ask why and they stated "we had an emergency and wanted to make sure your bathroom (sink and toilet) work." My spouse and I both at work mind you this is mid day 1pm-2pm.

2 hours later we get an email stating that the unit below us had toilet back up caused due to old pipes and baby wipes clogging them. During the house visit they opened all our drawers and cabinets and actually took photos of the baby wipes in the home. This was not stated in the phone call prior and honestly who flushes wipes down the toilet. Everyone knows they don't dissolve. Anyways, there's 4 units in question and they're trying to pin it on us because we're the only ones that have it the home. It is suspicious but I'm 100% positive we do not flush baby wipes and there's no way for them to prove it was us besides us just owning them.

Overall I just feel like it's an invasion of privacy to use an emergency plumbing situation as an excuse for them to basically come in a rummage through our belongings and photograph them.

Edit to answer questions: Just want to say thank you for all the responses and advice. We do not have children, they may be called other things but we just call them baby wipes. They're used for obvious reasons as well as clean our dog's paws. We do not know for sure if the other units have them or not, this was just the information given to us from management. I am personally not willing to go to the other units and ask them about the matter, not my business. Realistically we've lived here for more than 3 years and if we were the problem I'm sure this issue would've happened much sooner. Since we do still live here we'll hold off on any action (if any) until we find somewhere else to move or if they do pin the whole issue on us. I feel like the picture of the baby wipes in the cabinets is our golden ticket in a future case.

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