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Peeping the Peepers in Union Square

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After reading this, you may think twice about having a seat in Union Square. The website peeped some peeping toms in the area, visually depicted above (they added a "red carpet" to illustrate the "peeper zone"). They also tell us that a "peeper live zone" can contain up to two dozen pervs at one time and can extend up to 30 feet. We wonder what they do when summer skirt season comes to an end...migrate to the West Coast?

While it's unsettling to see exactly how many eyes can be on one person at one time, there's not much that can be done about it. Though if City Councilman Peter Vallone's proposed (and ridiculous) anti -voyeurism bill ever passed, these guys would be racking up some serious fines! That is, if they're really peeping...

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  • guest

    First!

    Oh. Wait.

  • guest

    Sure, and some women want you to take a dump on their chest. That still makes you an asshole if you go around indiscriminately shitting on chicks taking naps on a beach. So guess what, dude probably posing as a sexually liberated female, it's still hilarious to take pictures of these shameless dirt-bags crouching from twenty feet a way to look up a women's skirt.

  • guest

    hate to break to you big boi,

    but some women do like to get peeped.

  • guest

    Making fun of an ethnically diverse crowd of dirt bags staring at a womens crotch all day without describing and specific or general attributes relating to the individuals outside of their actions. Yep, racism defined.

    Did you all know that maker of that website was contacted by some of these people in person an by email? They've been to his site, where he also posted a link to this article. How much do you want to bet a good chunk of the bitchy little responses to this article are the pervs who stand around all day in Union Square, staring up women's dresses? Responses like "some women might want to be peeped", and "taking pictures of perverts is racism", mostly by guest posters, have the ring of someone trying to defend pervertedness, and demonize women who don't think their style of dress should have to pander to dirt-bags. Hey, don't get me wrong, it's your right to be a dirt-bag, but don't piss and moan when someone calls you out.

    I've worked around real racist assholes, telling ignorant racist jokes and bitching about Mexicans taking their jobs. I've also seen subtle racism, like a loss prevention employee circling around the only black guy in the store. But do you know what's worse than a racist? Someone exploiting their own disenfranchised race's struggle for equality and using it as a smokescreen to cover up the fact that they're a dirt bag. Not only are they exploiting the suffering of their brothers and sisters, they're making it worse by marginalizing the issue of racism so that stupid rich white folks, with their token black friend, don't believe that racism is as big of a problem as it really is, and don't see it until it's really fucking obvious.

  • guest

    Have these guys heard of online porn...?

  • guest

    Fortune Cookie Say: "Man who peep at girl vagina probably strong supporter of Bush"

  • guest

    Fortune Cookie Say: "Man who hide in bush to peep at bush get into hairy situation"

  • guest

    Guest 81 - Before you call someone ignorant, visit the page this originated and all of the other pages there that point out the hilarity that can be found at Union Square.

    "...deeper issues of power, race and gender.."

    Are you serious? And do you really consider this a discussion? I would bet 10 to 1 that you're religious. Only a deluded, alarmist, sensitive, fundie would find this even mildly offensive. Even women should find it hilarious that there are men who spends hours a day trying to see what is readily available at any beach or Victoria's Secret catalogue.

    Just visit the page.

  • guest

    "It's comedy people!...Jesus Christ! Loosen up! You're supposed to be New Yorkers, for Christ's sake!"

    Dude, are you 16? Your utopian, blinders-on view suggests someone who either cannot see or admit that there might be deeper issues of power, race, and gender to this story, and that's what's provoking the discussion.

    I bet you're one of the same people who go, "Why can't I call black people the N word? Other black people say the N word? WHY CAN'T I???? BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..."

    Ignorant.

  • guest

    i you go to the site you will see they have a picture of a bunch of peepers in a nighttime shot.

    i guess the peeper creeper photo thinks that they have night vision eyeballs . in another photo on the site, they circle alleged peepers , but leave out a woman looking in the same direction.

    this peeper site could just be a set up for page hits. there could be something else everybody is looking at to the side of that girl with her leg closed.. there could be a woman sitting there with her legs open and pantie less for all we know or a cute puppy. Or a dog peeing on someones leg or taking a crap with the owner not picking it up. street performers could be in the background. this is so wrong. women know to put their bags between their legs, or cross their legs if they don't want people to look at Union square park steps.

    now if the site got pictures of people with a hidden camera in bags doing photo up-skirt shots, that would be newsworthy .

    this post really cheapened gothamist journalist credibility.

  • guest

    dirty old men

  • guest

    Instead of charging these "peepers" (when really, if someone is sitting with their junk out, it is our responsibility to look), these girls should be charged with indecent exposure.

    Honestly, if a man was sitting is short with his wanker and chewed bubble gum hanging out he would be called the perv and charged as a flasher.

  • guest

    "Sorry folks, but you can't outlaw looking at girls' skirts - That's illegal! Doesn't this have the slightest little ring of racism to it? People in public are allowed to do this!This isn't important news! You're gonna get sued! You can't sue people for looking up your skirt! This is a trash news story and I hate you for publishing it! You can't make girls not wear skirts in public. That's called Taliban!"

    That's you people.

  • guest

    You've got to be kidding me. Go look at the page yourself! normalbobsmith.com/amazingstra...

    It's not trying to outlaw peeping. It's not singling out people of color. It's not trying to give you the latest breaking news that affects the nation! Hell, it's not even trying to say that girls hate it.

    It's a comedy page pointing a finger as a funny/creeping thing that happens at Union Square which seems to go unnoticed (or unmentioned) by the surrounding crowds. And believe me, those guys are indeed peeping up girls' skirts, standing there for the entire duration of her stay. I'm talking 20, 30, 40 minutes of leaning on the garbage can in a trance! My buddy and I sit there and watch this display take place with a train of four or five or eight guys all mesmerized by a pair of panties, and you don't see the humor in that?!?!

    It's comedy people! Free, available comedy that turns the mirror on ourselves to show how we've evolved and the things that concern us most in our daily lives as we graze this planet amongst the stars! Jesus Christ! Loosen up! You're supposed to be New Yorkers, for Christ's sake!

  • guest

    Its really amazing that gothamist would take a satire and report it as news. Are they really this incompentent? Jen, I suggest the next time you need to dig around for leads you try "The Onion". Lots of interesting stuff in that one.

  • guest

    What's wrong with you? Hmmm, why would I call it a public square, hmmm. It's a big, open, public place, and it's called "Union SQUARE." It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to put 2 and 2 together. Putz.

  • guest

    what is a public square? don't you mean pubic square.

    you're in New York City now. take your hear ye, hear ye stuff someplace else.

  • guest

    Vagina laser beams to kill super rats!

  • guest

    To Nick S.:

    Because you're into henti?

  • Nick S

    why am i looking at a picture of a girl shooting lazerbeams out of her vagina?

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