Posted on 09/19/2002 2:24:51 PM PDT by chance33_98
Filming Up Women's Skirts Is Legal In Washington Men Arrested For Shooting Up Women's Skirts
POSTED: 3:38 p.m. EDT September 19, 2002
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Photographing or videotaping up a woman's skirt in a public place doesn't violate Washington state's voyeurism law.
That's the ruling from state Supreme Court Thursday. The case involved two men arrested for shooting up women's skirts without their permission.
One case was at a mall in Union Gap in 1999, the other at the Bite of Seattle in 2000.
In a unanimous ruling, the court found that the voyeurism law only protects people in places where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Justice Bobbe Bridge called the behavior of Sean Glas and Richard Sorrells "disgusting and reprehensible" but said it's not illegal.
It reminds me of the tv ad where the guy is buying a dress and all the accessories to go to the football game as a hog. "Does this dress make me look fat?" ,,,,,"YES" :-)
Nothing I said came even close to that. What I SAID was that if one is IN an environment where there is a good chance of a sight line naturally occuring, one should NOT have such a high expectation of privacy.
I did NOT address the shooting of photographs by these guys except to call them perverts. But leave it to the Knee-Jerkers around here to put words in my mouth that I never said.
Michael
"you are the biggest loser I have ever heard of....guess we know where you get your jollies... Imo ...me who need to go to such extents to get their thrills are probably impotent or close to it, that or very under-endowed and they think somehow their adolescent behavior makes up for it... your ideas have consequences...just hope your dtrs if you have any...which I hope you don't....hope they don't pay for your stupidity...."
Nothing I said had anything to do with my personal behavior. It addressed only the EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY. I labeled these photogs "perverts," but I guess that wasn't enough for you.
There is an unfortunate Troll Tendency around here that if anyone describes a particular behavior, someone immediately accuses him of PARTICIPATING in that behavior. Cherry's unfounded and slobbering attack is only typical of the mindless finger-pointing that is so counter-productive in today's society.
Michael
The solution is simple. The legislature can amend the law like California did. In fact, the legislaot who sponsere the original legislation has already said she plans to introduce just such legislation, which will undoubtedly pass with little or no opposition.
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