A resident hall at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore is on high alert after a peeping Tom was caught filming male college students in the shower.
It was 1 AM and “George,” a sophomore at the university, was minding his own business in his stall when all of a sudden he looked up at and, through the steam of the shower room, saw someone holding an iPhone over the door.
George was being recorded.
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He quickly grabbed his towel and bolted out of the shower stall just in time to see the peeping Tom slam and lock the door of a neighboring stall. George ran and got the resident hall manager, Paul, and two others. They waited outside the shower stall where the Peeping Tom was hiding and ordered him to come out.
“My friend was very angry,” Paul tells his school newspaper. “He kept banging and shouting for him to come out.”
When the peeping Tom finally emerged, the four students confiscated his iPhone, where they were horrified to find nearly 70 other videos of various male college students in the shower.
“We saw the clips in the Recently Deleted album,” Paul explained. “They were videos of other men.”
Police were called. An hour later, they arrived to arrest the Peeping Tom, a 24-year-old senior at the university, for “possession of obscene material.”
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“We’re supposed to feel safe and secure, but now I can’t shower without looking over my shoulder,” George told the paper.
Another student added that he used to love taking long, hot showers, but now rushes through them, terrified of being recorded.
“I was quite concerned as this is the second time this has happened here,” he said. “I also take more notice who I bump into in the toilet.”
Meanwhile, Paul is urging other residents of the dorm to be extra cautious in the shower rooms.
“We strongly advise all residents in every hall, no matter their gender, to be careful when they shower or use the washroom,” he said. “No one is safe, so bathe quickly and be observant of the openings in the toilet cubicles.”
“Voyeurism,” he added, “is not tolerated in my hall.”
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ingyaom
Isn’t 24 a little old for a college senior? I wonder what he was doing in his gap-years.
ErikO
This is why they hate us.
RIGay
A health club I had belonged to a while back had a strict “No Photography” policy in their locker rooms. If you were caught with your smart phone snapping photos in there, you could be subjected to arrest.
Don’t know if it got the point across, since I still see the selfie posts of guys showing off to the mirrors…
ChrisK
@ingyaom: Not really.
Eye of the Beholder
I can be quite 2-faced where straight men as victims are concerned. I do fancy voyeur porn, but also I believe the saying is: It’s not illegal unless you get caught? I hope they throw the book at him for this. Sorry!
Arconcyyon
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zipperzone
Many many years ago when I lived in Toronto I used to like going for a walk in the evenings (after dark) through the grounds of the University of Toronto – excellent cruising by the way.
There was a path that passed one of the men’s dorms and the shower facilities were on the 1st floor. I guess the building had no air conditioning as the windows were usually open about a foot presumably to let the steam escape. Although the windows were frosted to provide privacy, when they were partially open you could see the guys walking around naked from the navel down to their mid thigh.
I often wondered if they knew what the situation was as some appeared to be walking back and forth more than was necessary. Almost all of them were well worth watching.
Was I a perve? You decide.
Mick406
No, you were not a perve. You were just admiring the human body.
I’m not fearful of someone taking a video of me in a public shower or at a urinal. I’m not fond of it happening, though! I don’t have anything to show off, and I can’t see how anyone would want to look at ME anyway! If I was young and a stud, I wouldn’t care then either. If you’ve got it, flaunt it!
I guess from being in the Army and playing sports in high school and college for so many years, and seeing SO many men run around naked, I’m probably numb to the idea that being seen naked (and even being photographed that way) I don’t see why that boy in the shower was so horrified. Every man has a dick . . . and if someone else wants to look at you . . . well, I’m not offended and actually totally unconcerned. Unless the pictures are used in a blackmail sort of way.
Texan78730
“Another student added that he used to love taking long, hot showers, but now rushes through them, terrified of being recorded.” Terrified?! The guy may have been uneasy or concerned, but TERRIFIED?! Queerty, you’re beginning to sound like Daily Mail now.
Texan78730
@Arconcyyon: Huh?
Brian
Whatever happened to men taking group showers? Today’s snowflakes all want to have their own cubicles….
mokuhulu
What a wuss just grab the damn phone and There is your proof or just smash it on the wet tiles. Boo-Hoo someone looked at me. Get pissed and stand up for yourself.
Tobi
@abnerbha: In the EU migrants raping children in public places such as changing rooms has sadly become something of a regular occurrence, which they attempt to justify by calling the act a sexual emergency. Ugh.
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JJinAus
Miraculously, through the steam, he could tell it was an iPhone. No way it could be any other operating system….
Bauhaus
@Brian:
They are in hiding from you and other leering creepers.
ChrisK
@Texan78730: I think the Arconcyyon troll is one of Brians creations. Best to just filter it out.