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'Upskirt' ban in Massachusetts signed into law
CNN ^ | March 7, 2014 | Jessica Ravitz

Posted on 03/09/2014 3:39:25 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

(CNN) -- Modern-day peeping Toms in Massachusetts, the sorts who get their thrills snapping "upskirt" photos on crowded subways, now have their behavior criminalized.

Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill Friday, according to his office, making photographing or recording video under a person's clothing -- think down a blouse or up a skirt -- a misdemeanor.

"The legislation makes the secret photographing, videotaping, or electronically surveiling of another person's sexual or other intimate parts, whether under or around a person's clothing or when a reasonable person would believe that the person's intimate parts would not be visible to the public, a crime," Patrick's office said in a prepared statement.

The crime is punishable by up 2½ years in jail or a fine of up to $5,000.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Massachusetts
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The ACLU is judge-shopping even as we speak.
1 posted on 03/09/2014 3:39:27 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
In other news, Bill Clinton has cancelled all his scheduled appearances in Massachusetts.


2 posted on 03/09/2014 3:40:30 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

This kind of behavior used to be good for a but kicking.


3 posted on 03/09/2014 3:43:32 AM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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At least.


4 posted on 03/09/2014 3:45:08 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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5 posted on 03/09/2014 3:48:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: exnavy
Little boys used to chase little girls home from school and lift up the back of their dresses when they got close ...

I never had active ink wells, so I don't know about puttin' the pigtails of the girl in front of you IN them ... but Nancy Smith hated Fluffernutters and loved PBJ's and that's all I ever had so ... we traded ... and became good .... I mean GOOD ... friends .... in the first grade.


What was the name of that book ... "Everything I Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten" ?

6 posted on 03/09/2014 3:49:34 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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I hope that kitty isn’t from Massachusetts.


7 posted on 03/09/2014 3:52:35 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Now I know why the TSA bought all that dynamite.
Deval just signed a law making their nude-o-cam machine illegal.
Read the text about “ or when a reasonable person would believe that the person’s intimate parts would not be visible to the public”.


9 posted on 03/09/2014 4:03:43 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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Massachusetts government officials are not noted for following the law.


10 posted on 03/09/2014 4:23:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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So as the weather warms in Mass of two $h!t$. Woman can comfortably go ‘Commando’ without fear of Peewee Hermans shoe mirrors


11 posted on 03/09/2014 4:30:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Good catch ... and makes my smart ass remark(s) infantile.

Logan must be a real nightmare.

12 posted on 03/09/2014 4:31:29 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: knarf

Winner Technology? What an appropriate name.../s


13 posted on 03/09/2014 4:35:36 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Vaquero

I’m sure it’ll work just as well as their gun control.


14 posted on 03/09/2014 4:38:26 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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Look at Darksheare's #9.

Just as some dims are rejecting their leader, some may be switching on a light here and there.

15 posted on 03/09/2014 4:44:15 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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I went to a Catholic parochial school in NYC 50 something years ago. Little girls were ‘talked to’ by the nuns if they wore mirror shiny patent leather shoes.


16 posted on 03/09/2014 4:51:33 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I think there was a musical about that.


17 posted on 03/09/2014 4:55:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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Here’s the REAL problem . . . stairwells. I heard stories from a female family member tback when ALL that were available in the clothing stores (’60s) were pants and VERY short skirts. The girls would descend down the stairwells, and the boys would leer up from the bottom. She opted for the pants.

My wife makes most of my girls’ clothes, and a good deal of her own, despite better market conditions these days.


18 posted on 03/09/2014 4:57:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: knarf

>What was the name of that book ... “Everything I Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” ?

I prefer “Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learned on STAR TREK (TOS)”

Watch the episode “Charlie X”.


19 posted on 03/09/2014 5:16:31 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Yeah. Sounds familiar. But there was an interesting dynamic with the nuns in those days. And between the sexes it was hush hush but we found out what the nuns said to the girls on the qt. When the nuns had to deal with the pubescent boys we were sent to one of the parish priests who read us the riot act. Usually it caused us to laugh our butts off once out of foddas presence.


20 posted on 03/09/2014 5:18:23 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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