Posted on 06/11/2015 9:41:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A photo obtained by WTVR CBS 6 News allegedly showed John Wiggins, 55, using a cellphone camera to snap photos up a woman’s dress at the Walmart in Short Pump. That picture was taken by the husband of another woman who claimed she was also one of Wiggins’s victims.
Henrico Police arrested Wiggins after he allegedly violated two women by using his smart phone to snap pictures under their skirts on Sunday, May 31. Officers said one victim became very uneasy when he bumped into her in the middle of the store and pretended to drop something in the store.
Caught Red-Handed
The woman whose husband snapped the photo spoke to WTVR CBS 6 reporter Joe St. George on the condition of anonymity Wednesday.
“If it can happen to me, it can happen to you,” she said about the incident.
So how did it happen? The woman said Wiggins dropped a box of pasta on the floor as a distraction – and as an excuse for him to reach down to get closer to the floor and into the perfect spot to snap a pic.
“It started in the shampoo department and that’s when it happened the first time,” she explained. “I just turned the aisle and he looked directly at me and I felt his guilt.”
After the ordeal, the woman said her husband decided to follow Wiggins around Walmart to try to catch him in the act.
That’s when he snapped the photo of a woman in a green and blue striped dress wearing flip-flops reaching for an item in the spice section. That photo also captured the suspect squatting down to lower what appears to be a cellphone under her dress.
The victim said the incident caused her to change her shopping routine.
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Short Pump Ping.
There’s a really fine line and it’s not one that anyone really wants to go to war over.
On the one hand, no, you don’t have any right to privacy in public. People can take your photo on the street and use it for art or editorial purpose, but if they wanted to use it as advertising, they would have to have a signed license.
Street photography has a long history and has provided us with some wonderful shots of daily life.
Nobody can take a photo in public of something that you aren’t displaying, and if you’re displaying yourself in a way that your underwear is visible, then it’s no crime to take a photo of that.
Now going out of the way to see what is normally not visible is certainly creepy, and we have laws for peeping toms, and I don’t think taping a GoPro to your shoe and going on the subway should be something a person should do, but if there are small cameras and public places, if you don’t want your bits photographed, then cover them up.
You may be thinking of a recent case in Massachusetts, where the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned an upskirt photographer's conviction under the state's Peeping Tom laws, because the laws were written in such a way that upskirt photos didn't fall within any of the specific provisions. It wasn't necessarily about a reasonable expectation of privacy, it was that the law specifically applied only in certain locations (dressing rooms, people's own houses, etc.) or when someone was nude or "partially nude." It was a bad result (obviously these creeps should be stopped), but probably the right decision under the law.
The Massachusetts legslature and governor fixed the law within a day or two of the court's decision.
I had a HS Coach/History teacher who arranged the desks on three walls facing inward. It was obvious what he was up to so I went to the principal. Of course, the principal did nothing.
Well I guess now I must confess, in junior high we had a really hot German teacher that wore short skirts, us guys were accidently dropping trash all the time so she would pick it up. Funny though, when my daughter was around thirteen and some pervert would start staring lewdly I had no problem confronting them in the middle of a mall. I guess unlike most of us that learn proper and improper behaviour there will always be some that need to have it beaten into them.
Yes. This crap. Plushies.
People using their phones to be porn stars.
In the past people didnt have extra energy to be bored with. Too busy doing necessary work.
it can happen to you.
He would have never stood straight up. His camera would have been under heel.
I see this has not yet been posted on People of Wal-Mart.
I think this sort of crap is pretty TAME for the People of Walmart.
This is the thinnest woman to ever enter a Walmart!
Husband, father to teenage daughters, good neighbor for 19 years.
Threw it all away being a perv. What an idiot.
Crunch....”Sorry, was that your phone? Didn’t see it there....”
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