Pervs win again

Not sure how I feel about this.

Ditto. I mean girls who dress and sit in a way where you can take a picture like that know good and well what they are doing when they are walking out the door.... But I don't like a ruling that lets a despicable act slide.

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I don't like a ruling that lets a despicable act slide.

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The judges made it clear in their ruling that they didn't like making it.

Here's what they said in their ruling:

"At the core of the Commonwealth's argument to the contrary is the proposition that a woman, and in particular a woman riding on a public trolley, has a reasonable expectation of privacy in not having a stranger secretly take photographs up her skirt. The proposition is eminently reasonable, but (the law) in its current form does not address it,"


But they really didn't have much choice if they wanted to do what the law said rather than what they wanted it to say.

Here's the section of the law used to charge him:

Whoever willfully photographs, videotapes or electronically surveils another person who is nude or partially nude, with the intent to secretly conduct or hide such activity, when the other person in such place and circumstance would have a reasonable expectation of privacy in not being so photographed, videotaped or electronically surveilled, and without that person’s knowledge and consent, shall be punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

The victims weren't nude or semi-nude and they were in a place of public accommodation, so they lacked the reasonable expectation of privacy.

The legislature just didn't anticipate some perv would be taking panty pics on the bus.

They'll push a change in the law that includes a provision for 'beneath clothing that would prevent cursory photographing or videotaping' and this will amount to nothing.

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yeah i read that part and understand why the ruling went the way it did, but it still stinks.

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What really should have happened is when he was caught, the men on that bus should have whipped his arse.

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They'll push a change in the law that includes a provision for 'beneath clothing that would prevent cursory photographing or videotaping' and this will amount to nothing.

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Yeah, it is an easy fix.

I think people should just stick with camel toe pics.

Jackpot

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Where did you drudge this up?

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Um, it has been on every major news site for at least a day and is still on the front page of both foxnews.com and cnn.com.

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Ohio - finger guns are dangerous;
Minnesota - freezing girls in their wet bathing suits is okay;
Massachusetts - okay to photograph up women's skirts.

Has common sense in the North been frozen to death this Winter?

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Just really bizarre rulings going on right now.

Call me crazy, but I feel like you have a reasonable amount of privacy under your own clothing protecting your "private parts".

Thread is useless without pics.