Perv Implicates Self in Starbucks Bathroom Spycam

New Paltz police are looking for a man who planted a spy camera on the floor of a Starbucks unisex bathroom. They have a great description of him—according to WCBS 2, he's "6-feet tall, 35 to 40 years of age, dark hair, bearded, with a mustache, horn rimmed glasses and a ponytail halfway down his back"—because he filmed himself while installing the camera. Lieutenant Steve Osarczuk, who explained the spycam was planted "to capture people in a private moment of a sexual nature," enjoyed the irony, "I think its absolutely beautiful. The footage that he wanted to get to hurt somebody else is now in our hands and we can use it to hurt him." A Starbucks employee found the small object on the floor and New Paltz Police say the suspect probably set it up before.

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By Jen Chung in News on March 18, 2009 9:22 AM

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jennesy

Wasn't there a Law & Order about this a while back?

just saying

There are people who use Starbucks' restrooms in order to pleasure themselves?? And there are still other people who set up cameras to view the self-pleasurers in Starbucks?

WTF?

tmz is evil

"to capture people in a private moment of a sexual nature"

Gawd dayum! Why doesn't he just say "masturbation?" Or the more clinical term, spanking the monkey?

felixthecat2

There goes my lunch, damn people are gross.

atmanone

oh crap, that guy looks like me. I better start clearing my good name!

retrovertigo

I was just there like...last week...

luckily i don't use those bathrooms.

rdsizzle

"bearded, with a mustache, horn rimmed glasses and a ponytail halfway down his back"

The "in" look for voyeuristic pervs...

TJ

or the "in" look for anyone in New Paltz

suepart

it's sean lennon, the no talent son of the overrated dead beatle and yucko ono.

Guest

What an idiot! The money he spent on that stupid camera could just as easily been used to have a hooker give him a golden shower. When will these pervs realize that the sex industry is there for them? When will the government realize they could avert sex crimes by legalizing prostitution?

felixthecat2

for a wannabe cowboy, i guess you would have to pay for it. LOL

Guest

Nobody laughs at your 'jokes' but you. And, for the record, my girlfriend gives me whatever I have a proclivity for. Go ahead, felix, I know you want to look that word up.

Ph

That guy kinda looks like John Lennon.

Wza

"Imagine all the people, sitting on the toilett eh etttt...."

babyhitler

anybody remember that SNL skit where the guy had a sexual proclivity towards the "cream of wheat" guy and would steal all the boxes and none of the other guys would let him join the pervert club cause it was too weird?

FunChop

I remember a Kids in the Hall episode where the guy had a thing for Aunt Jemima, but I never saw the SNL rip off.

Splicer

That must have been a skit with Jimmy Fallon -- in other words, not funny.

Addicted to Chocohol

GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAIL.

Dumb criminals can't get any dumber than this.

nicemarmot

Ewww...I will never see the sexual appeal of bathroom activities. I guess that's why they call them perverts!

tmz is evil

He wasn't planting the camera to film bathroom activities. He was trying to catch people masturbating, it seems. I think that's what "Lieutenant Steve Osarczuk" was trying to say in his roundabout, garbled way.