Venice bottom snapper arrested

[edesignuk]

A man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women's bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested.

The man was stopped after police became suspicious of a large bag he was carrying as he followed women through St Mark's Square.

He has been charged with infringement of privacy. It is a cheeky crime, which could earn this 38-year-old Italian from six months to four years in jail.

A police video shows a man in jeans and hooded top walking behind women.

He is trying to position his black holdall close to their legs.

Police said he was filming through a small hole in the side of the bag.

BBC.

naughty naughty, tsk tsk.

 

[Abstract]

Is "poonani" an Italian word?

 

[localoid]

Is "poonani" an Italian word?

Dunno... Punani is of Jamaican Patois origin; puanani, Hawaiian.

 

[arkitect]

I wonder if he intended to paper the walls of his bedroom with them and what criteria he used… or was it just any (female) bottom?

3,000 snaps. Prolific.

EDIT:

Is "poonani" an Italian word?

I thought he was photographing the other side?

 

[Abstract]

Ah, OK. I thought he put the camera in a bag, and kept it low to get some bum shots, but also some shots under skirts or something.

Or maybe that's what I would have done "if" I was a creep.

 

[arkitect]

He got the bum shots allright… just not any poonani…

 

[patrick0brien]

'cheeky'?!?

 

[Killyp]

Anybody got a link to his Flickr?

 

[PlaceofDis]

odd people in the world today, aren't there?

or well there have always been, we just get to hear about them in the news more often now.

 

[David G.]

Anybody got a link to his Flickr?

Haha, I laughed just now reading that.

 

[SamoanDude]

I think he was just trying to snap a picture of the crack of Dawn

 

[maxrobertson]

God I love the sh*tty puns "news" organizations are so fond of using. It really brings home the fact that they report on very little of merit.

 

[oli2140]

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[Everythingisnt]

God I love the sh*tty puns "news" organizations are so fond of using. It really brings home the fact that they report on very little of merit.

I love the done-to-death puns that always pop up each time a zany article like this pops up .

 

[sharky05]

i think the only people to blame are those online photo developer sites. If you still had to go to a shop to get these printed, nobody would do stuff like this...

 

[Phobophobia]

i think the only people to blame are those online photo developer sites. If you still had to go to a shop to get these printed, nobody would do stuff like this...

Couldn't they learn to develop photos themselves?