Posted 4/25/2009 01:42:00 PM by Douglas

Taking pictures of people in public is illegal now? Sure sounds like the guy is a creep but unless he was positioning his camera to get some up-skirt shots or something like that, I don't see the problem. [via]

A 68-year-old man is free on bond Thursday after being arrested on a charge of taking improper pictures of women at SeaWorld, authorities said.

The guard initially approached Jackson after noticing he was adjusting the lens of his digital camera on a woman in a yellow dress on the other side of a dolphin pool, according to an arrest affidavit.

OK taking pictures of women that could even be considered improper, through the dolphin pool at SeaWorld, is so hilariously pathetic, the guy should walk out on general principle. [side note: I used to have a picture of the dolphins doin' it in the pool. I wish I had any idea where it was]

Not to mention the government funded surveillance, every time you walk into just about any store, you're being photographed. You don't get a choice where that camera is zoomed, either, so is that inappropriate? Hell no, and last time I checked, women don't wear low-cut shirts and short skirts with their junk hangin' out because they don't want people to look at them, so don't cry foul when someone whips out the now ubiquitous digital camera. Just think of it as some random, old, creepy guy, admiring your beauty, whenever he wants.

As a wise woman once said, a mini-skirt and a wonderbra aren't smart-weapons: There's bound to be some collateral damage with such things, and you may get some attention from people you don't want. Deal with it.