‘Peeping Toms are jumping for joy’: Upskirt pics are legal, Massachusetts’ top court rules

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/peeping-toms-are-jumping-for-joy-upskirt-pics-are-legal-massachusetts-top-court-rules/



‘Peeping Toms are jumping for joy’: Upskirt pics are legal, Massachusetts’ top court rules
By Reuters
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 15:55 EST

BOSTON (Reuters) – A man who snapped secret pictures up women’s skirts on a Boston subway train – a practice known as upskirting – did not violate the state’s Peeping Tom law, Massachusetts’ top court said on Wednesday, pointing to a loophole in current legislation.

Massachusetts law prohibits secretly filming or photographing a person who is nude or partly nude, but that does not apply to people who are fully clothed, according to a Supreme Judicial Court decision written by Justice Margot Botsford.

The ruling comes in the case of a man who was arrested by transit police in 2010 for using his cell phone to take pictures and video up women’s’ skirts on the subway and who fought to have the charges of voyeurism dismissed.

The law “does not apply to photographing… persons who are fully clothed and, in particular, does not reach the type of upskirting that the defendant is charged with attempting to accomplish on the MBTA,” it said.

[MADem]

1. This will need to be addressed, legislatively, ASAP.

It's going over like a lead balloon.

[wandy]

2. LOL. And my first thought was.....

Thats a Kilt!
Those legs are photo-shopped.
Scan that pix up any further and you'll be finding a bagpipe and a fine Scottish beard.
And just what a man who was so low as to snap secret pictures up women’s skirts would deserve!

[newfie11]

3. If that's a kilt

Maybe we could finely know what under it?

[wandy]

4. Far be it for me to give advice. But..........

Sometimes you just don't want to know.

[newfie11]

5. Lol your probably right

[pipi_k]

7. Although...

two young ladies found out...

[newfie11]

8. Lol that was a hoot!!

[polmaven]

6. Not any more!!

The MA legislature worked quickly!! Fastest I can remember! The bill closing that loophole is on the Governor's desk, and he is expected to sign it into law this morning!!