WOTY -- "upskirting"

[Victor Steinbok]

Peeing Tom? Did this happen on pubic transportation?

     VS-)

On 3/5/2014 7:53 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Which the highest state court in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts
> Supreme Judicial Court -- the oldest continuously functioning
> appellate court in America -- has just ruled is not illegal.  The
> activity as well as the word should go viral.
>
> The decision is that "a state law intended to prohibit 'Peeping Tom'
> voyeurism of completely or partially undressed people did not apply
> to people who take pictures of people who are fully
> clothed."  (Boston Globe, on-line.)
>
> It's not clear to me whether the prosecutors blundered in choosing to
> bring charges under the "Peeing Tom" law when there might have been
> some other grounds.
>
> Not in the OED, by the way.
>
> Joel

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