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re: Hats off to Bangalore Police! Eve-Teasers caught after Facebook complaint Quote: Iluvcars Originally Posted by I also sincerely hope the cops charge them with riding without helmet.



Quote: Enigmatic Originally Posted by about two boys eye-teasing him and his other female friends



On the flipside, this phenomenon of online reporting of crimes using electronic evidence requires further scrutiny before being put in place, only because of the sheer amount of reputational harm that would come with scamsters with access to cheap camera phones looking to harass people.



For example, if in an incident of road rage if someone has cut you off, to then provoke the other person by cutting them off or shunting them and then to record their actions once they flare up. Clearly this would present just one side of the story on a public media to a huge number of viewers. That's a very good observation. He is also making a sexually offensive gesture that has been caught on camera, presumably directed at the women, so at the very least he can be booked for the traffic-helmet violation and for sexual harassment.Well they can't really be eve teasing him (or "outraging his modesty" as the Indian Penal Code terms it) as that is an offensive reserved for women, but surely harassing him and possibly intimidating him.On the flipside, this phenomenon of online reporting of crimes using electronic evidence requires further scrutiny before being put in place, only because of the sheer amount of reputational harm that would come with scamsters with access to cheap camera phones looking to harass people.For example, if in an incident of road rage if someone has cut you off, to then provoke the other person by cutting them off or shunting them and then to record their actions once they flare up. Clearly this would present just one side of the story on a public media to a huge number of viewers. Last edited by Rudra Sen : 14th March 2013 at 12:21 . Reason: Correcting. Back to original.