Posted on 03/30/2007 10:02:16 AM PDT by Froufrou
A cameraman was caught with some creepy video footage. The man was surreptitiously videotaping female feet in the science library at University of California, Santa Cruz, campus police said. "Officers indicated he was embarrassed by his behavior," university spokesman Jim Burns said Monday. "He offered no resistance to the request that he leave immediately and indicated he would not be back."
It's not illegal to videotape feet so no charges were filed. The name of the man, who was in his 40s and had no affiliation with the university, wasn't disclosed. He was banned from the campus for two weeks.
Vince Nova, manager of the Science and Engineering Library, said the man was seen pointing a small video camera in the vicinity of three students' feet. One of the students confronted the cameraman and he fled.
One of the female students spotted him again last Wednesday, and campus police were called. A campus officer searched the man's bag and inspected the camera.
"From the taped contents of his camera, the subject of his filming seemed to be 'feet,'" the officer wrote in his report.
Graduate student Nellie Chu said she wasn't concerned.
"It's odd, but I don't think there's any need to jump to conclusions," Chu said. "Maybe he was doing research."
Riiiight... research. That's the ticket!
This raises an important question:
Wonder what Dick Morris is gonna do without videos for two weeks?
Yeah, Chu on that one for a while!
She blinded me with Science! And a toe in the eye.
He works in the ladies shoe department at a local department store.
Why doesn't the man say why he's videotaping feet?
Is there a name for this fetish? Other than 'foot?' What kind of person has a thing for toe jam? I'm off to google the DSM codes. We had a few like this in TX, but we're kinda used to weird in these parts...
;o)
Podiatrist treats sick feet.
Podophile ...?
Oddly enough..."podophilia".
"Aretifism" is a sexual attraction to bare feet.
Well, the idea is to keep your feet clean; therefore, no toe jam. Of course women's feet can be sexy. Why not?
"In the case of pedal paraphilia, the concentration is on the foot, stockings or shoe. Whilst self-incorporation of feet in foreplay or lovemaking is innocuous only when it becomes the point of psychological dependence, can paraphilia be diagnosed. Fetishism is a type of paraphilia...Ellis & Arabanel (1961) acknowledged the most frequent form of erotic symbolism was that which idealised the foot and shoe. People can also have a sock or hose fetishism. Many are males but there are some noted case studies of females with hose fixation. The habit is often associated with an auto-erotic asphyxia fixation which is sexually driven. Like feet and shoes, hose fetishists require some specific attraction in the object which may include special colours, shape or smell. People with sock fixation will have no special attraction to feet or shoes." [podiatry.curtin.edu.au]
You're closer than you think, CCG! Yikes!
Jdm, you're a riot!
Hello? I used to have a boyfriend who liked to suck my toes!
Yeah, right. And maybe the perps name is Paul Bunyon.
How did you ever let him slip through your fingers, er, toes?
Was his name Buster Brown?
Did he ever boast about being on Hannity & Colmes?
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