May 20, 2005 | Funny Bits

Post-9/11 voyeurism

A mini camera planted by an unidentified voyeur to shoot up passing skirts caused a  bomb scare near a Manhattan subway station, police said Wednesday. 

A pedestrian called police on Tuesday afternoon to report seeing a box with wires sticking out of it under a subway grate in a sidewalk on the Upper East Side. The block was closed off while the police bomb squad investigated. 

The scare ended when officers discovered that the device was a digital camera. Police said on Wednesday they believe someone positioned the camera to record "upskirt" images of women and girls in dresses as they strolled over the grate.  As of today, no one has been arrested.

• Upskirt subway camera causes bomb scare [Yahoo! News]