'Upskirting' is legal, Massachusetts top court says

[HomerJay]

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.

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[JimC]

Surely it is at least skirting around a criminal action?

[klr]

... according to a Supreme Judicial Court decision written by Justice Margot Botsford.

No feminine solidarity then.

[JimC]

I wonder how "upkilting" is viewed in Scotland?

[HomerJay]

Surely it is at least skirting around a criminal action?

No, it's pants.

[HomerJay]

I wonder how "upkilting" is viewed in Scotland?

I believe they use a mirror taped to a golf club.

[JimC]

At least it's not a case of snatch and grab...

[JimC]

I wonder how "upkilting" is viewed in Scotland?

I believe they use a mirror taped to a golf club.

Bollocks!

[klr]

I wonder how "upkilting" is viewed in Scotland?

I believe they use a mirror taped to a golf club.

Bollocks!

Exactly the sort of credentials you need to be admitted into certain Scottish golf clubs.