Flasher Caught on Cellphone Gets Probation

The raw-food restaurant owner who was photographed pleasuring himself on a subway car last August pleaded guilty to public lewdness charges. Dan Hoyt, who was arrested in 1994 for public lewdness, will get two years of probation and must see a psychiatrist once a week. His laywer says that Hoyt is remorseful for his actions and realizes he has a problem (no kidding!), also adding that Hoyt is consulting in Japan about healthy foods (additional sympathy plea). Gothamist supposes probation is an appropriate sentence, but what we're more upset about is how so many people do disgusting things on the train and they aren't punished - where's the police handing out summons for those things?

That cellphone photograph by Thao Nguyen that launched an arrest

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"raw-food restaurant owner"
"pleasuring himself"
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Words I hope never happens in combination again!

"Hoyt is consulting in Japan"??
Making Sushi!?!?

Due to sexual frustration Hoyt succumbed to temptation and got himself probation for masturbation while using public transportation

NYC Straphangers send our sympathies to all the women on the Japanese subway system on whom Hoyt is currently rubbing his crotch.

I would say probabtion is o.k. for a first offense, but not for ten years of subway masturbating. Tell the Tokyoist to be wary of any restaurants serving nut meat.

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Creepy white guys tend to gravitate towards asians.

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Well, the police may not be handling this, but we can take matters into our own hands

Holla Back NYC lets New Yorker's post pictures of street harassers and other nastiness in public space. Check it out.

I think the whole reason why the guy got in trouble was because he took a matter into his own hands.

Isn't "flashing" different than "public masturbation"?

On Sunday night at around 9pm, I was riding the N train towards Brooklyn and a man pulled out his penis and just started peeing on the floor of the train while he sat there. The pee started trickling down the floor of the subway car towards me and a few other passengers. We made groans of disgust and then ran out at the next stop. Ick.

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that dudes in public transpo, asian chick heaven!.
as far as his fetish is concerned - this guy is pretty proactive.
its kinda strange how the ween is so evil- wagging it has to be one of the creepiest things a human can do to another. the ween must only be seen and touched by your selected partner! one at a time only.......your not supposed to even touch it yourself either. rules of the nut meat.....
maybe raw foods make one forget about these rules and makes one behave...raw-er.

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