Posted on 05/18/2005 5:34:09 PM PDT by pissant
Police found a so-called "skirt cam" under a subway grate at 88th Street and Lexington Avenue Tuesday afternoon after a woman called police saying she had noticed suspicious wires protruding from the grate as she passed by.
Police closed off the street, fearing the device was a bomb, but soon realized that it was a four-inch multi-media video camera that was pointing upward and recording passers-by.
The camera was attached to an external hard-drive, making it possible for the video to be saved and then uploaded onto the Internet.
Investigators do not consider the camera to be a threat to public safety, but they do consider it a threat to individual privacy.
Some passersby in the neighborhood who spoke to NY1 said they would think twice before ever walking over a grate again.
"It's pretty awful. It really is. I think that I walk over that every single day, but she actually wears skirts more than I do," said one woman, referring to another woman with her. "I happen to have one on today. I'm so glad that I was wearing pants [the rest of the time.]"
"It's really weird that people would actually do this," said a young girl. "I think it's disgusting."
"I generally don't walk on grates," said another woman, who added that she definitely won't be walking over grates from now on.
Police sources say investigators are looking into the possibility the camera was installed by MTA workers.
The California company that manufactures the camera says it will work with police to trace the serial number back to its owner.
A few years ago, Governor George Pataki signed a law making "video voyeurism" a felony offense in New York State, meaning the person responsible for installing the camera could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Nope, I neither appear in the photograph or authored it.
(If you know where she is, please let me know!)
Yours?
I told you, you should have used wireless.
Real-time collection is the way to go. You can't always count on being able to collect and upload.
Pissant: Listen to Danny next time.
Pissant: Listen to Danny next time.
Whew! Thought for a minute there I was a perv.
Never send in those registration cards!
Hmmm. There seems to be alot of good advice on FR how to do this properly. Lets start up a pay per view website!
Oh no you didn't gotchme. Aqualung was smart enough to say nothing further. Had he said he was eyeing little girls with bad intent they would have arrested him on the spot as a suspect. Aqualung knows his rights! HA!
Guess the perp had Grate Expectations with the hidden camera.
No, at the time I was like 12 or 13 and wouldn't have even considered the idea.
That said, in retrospect now, it feels weird, thinking that it probably was a child molester (if she was telling the truth) near her sisters school.
But did they smell your Locomotive Breath?
That should work. Nothing like an bare pickle to get a shriek!
I know it would make me scream in horror.
On the rare occasion when I do go skirt spelunking, I don't want to find anything I can find while I'm alone.
(shudder)
Stay away from Seattle then. It's a 50/50 proposition!
Yes, it was thick as a brick. And BTW - I would turn up the volume to Locomotive Breath to pain levels. One of the all time great rock songs - IMO.
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