back to article Woman caught on CCTV performing drunken BJ blew right to privacy

Ofcom has rejected a claim that Channel 4 infringed the privacy of a pregnant Southampton woman by broadcasting CCTV footage of her administering drunken oral pleasure to a chap in a tower block lift. "Ms K" lodged a complaint of "unwarranted infringement of privacy" to the TV watchdog regarding the 9 June 2014 episode of CCTV …

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          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Good

            > That was Not the nine o'clock news!

            True. It was much more informative than anything else at that hour.

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      1. MrXavia

        Re: Good

        who cares if they were having sex? who cares if they got butt naked!

        The problem is the pissing on the floor!

        If she did it in the street over a drain, next to a tree, or on a patch of earth then who cares, its not hurting anyone...

        But in a lift! that is filthy...

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Good

          You're joking right?

          You're waiting for a lift with your child and the doors open on that?

          Surely the purpose of public sex is the risk of being caught (although this appears to be so casual - and drunk - that it wasn't a consideration).

          1. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

            Re: Good

            > You're waiting for a lift with your child and the doors open on that?

            Ah, cool. The Think Of The Children angle. We were missing that.

          2. Anonymous Coward
            Anonymous Coward

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            "You're waiting for a lift with your child and the doors open on that?"

            Luckily for you, your kid doesn't have to chance it now. He can just watch it on TV, or look it up on You Tube, or some other kid will send a link to him. Thanks to the joke that enforcement of privacy laws is in the UK, and thanks to some underpaid (or plain idiotic) CCTV operator, and to a bunch of greedy, miserable, unprincipled, TV producers.

            She might have done something rude and stupid (urinating in a lift) or taken part in something that you don't approve of (having sex in a communal, rather than public, space), along with someone else who by the way seems to have escaped any form of condemnation. That does not justify taking advantage of her position and the equivalent of a tarring and feathering. That is not the mark of a civilised society. Is this how you want your children to grow up?

          3. HOW many?

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            .... you're waiting with your child and the lift door opens on that:

            What's that man doing mummy?

            (i) Err, he hid a stick of rock in his trousers but she's found it.

            (ii) Its a very old fashioned remedy for tonsilitis, but you mustn't try it until you're older'

            I declare the caption(?) competition to now be open:

            1. Anonymous Coward
              Anonymous Coward

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              > What's that man doing mummy?

              He is receiving oral sex, son.

              Children are not stupid, it's just the adults who have been conditioned to feel uncomfortable about it, particularly so in Anglo-saxon countries, for some reason.

    2. Amorous Cowherder

      Re: Good

      Depends but in some places here in London, caught urinating in public can lead to a fine of up £500.

      1. Simon Harris

        Re: Good

        So, it might be a data protection violation to show it on "CCTV: Caught on Camera", as some posters have suggested, but it might be fine to show it on Crimewatch.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Good

        @Amorous Cowherder Last time I was in London they were serving it in pubs for a fiver a pint.

    3. 080

      Re: Good

      Not in France, where if you stand still long enough someone will piss down your leg.

  1. TheProf

    sigh!

    And this is what passes for 'entertainment' on Channel 4 these days?

    1. Mike Flex

      Re: sigh!

      "And this is what passes for 'entertainment' on Channel 4 these days?"

      Regrettably so. In the Flex household this sort of stuff is referred to as a caring, sharing, freak show. Add a thin layer of social commentary and you can apparently serve up any amount of bad behaviour from the less fortunate in society. And to think we look down on Hogarth's contemporaries for going along to laugh at the inmates at Bedlam.

      Or perhaps you have an intimate medical problem you're too embarrassed to see your GP about? Why not expose your suppurating nads to the whole nation on one of C4's medical shows? The freakier the better.

      1. Sporkinum

        Re: sigh!

        Upvoted for the use of "suppurating nads". Though it should have been suppurating 'nads.

      2. Amorous Cowherder
        Facepalm

        Re: sigh!

        It's pure unadulterated "poor porn", cheap and easy to make. Get an out of work jobbing actor for £100/day, get them to voice over some PD CCTV footage and you've got yourself a TV show.

        The mentality of those who watch, "Ha ha, look at those people they're worse than us, let's laugh at them for entertainment!". Sorry but anyone who sinks low enough to watch this kind of utter shit for entertainment is, in my opinion, lower than the people being shown in these so called documentaries.

        Reminds me of the "TV shows" in THX-1138, simply boiled down to the key elements. You want sex? Just watch two people having it off. Want violence? Watch someone being beaten. Why bother wasting time with characters of plots, just show the key elements in the raw.

        I'd rather watch my cat take a dump than the shite that spews out of the TV channels these days.

        1. Bleu

          Re: sigh!

          I would rather see the cult of the cat video or photo wiped from the face of the 'net, maybe we have a little of a start with major media playing the same thing up for a few years now, surely that is depriving it of any appeal to coolness?

          The video of this sounds a little more interesting than one of your cat having a dump, and the acts likely left less of a stench. Cat shit is putrid, I know cat lovers enjoy the smell, can never understand why.

    2. Tim Jenkins

      Re: sigh!

      On Channel 5 it would be a game show.

      Working title: "Shafted!"

  2. GreggS

    She seems to have turned

    a wee problem into a very large one. O well, thar' she blows.

    1. Bleu

      Re: She seems to have turned

      Are you implying that Mrs. K was at the top end of plus-sized?

  3. Blank-Reg
    Facepalm

    What a charming couple. A real credit to society.

    Utter fuckups

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      > A real credit to society.

      The real credit so society are the audience levels of that shit that passes for entertainment on television.

  4. albaleo

    Being for the benefit of Mr Kite

    The celebrated Mrs K

    Performs her feats on Saturdays

    Behind the gate

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Being for the benefit of Mr Kite

      Nice one, made me go and put it on the stereo.

  5. Yugguy

    I feel sorry for her unborn kid

    Frankly.

    1. Oz
      WTF?

      Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

      Apparently "the stress of all the attention from the situation caused her to go into early labour". Nothing to do with drinking while pregnant then!

    2. Rich 11

      Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

      "Hello, little darling. Mummy wants to tell you all about her 15 minutes of fame."

      1. swampdog

        Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

        Mylan Moran?

    3. Obitim
      Coat

      Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

      I feel sorry for her unborn kid

      Frankly.

      That's an awful name for a child...

      1. Tascam Holiday
        Coat

        Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

        I expect he's called Otis...

        1. Intractable Potsherd

          Re: I feel sorry for her unborn kid

          More likely "Schindler" ...

  6. Kay Burley ate my hamster

    Shouldn't the question be...

    How much did the council get for the footage?

    1. Dave 126 Silver badge

      Re: Shouldn't the question be...

      Yeah - Jeremy Beadle used to pay £250 for video clips... neatly, that is the same amount as the fine for smoking in an enclosed public place.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I've filed the cour verdict

    Under "No shit, Sherlock".

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I've filed the cour verdict

      Cour[t] verdict? From a quango?

      > Under "No shit, Sherlock"

      I suggest you overestimate your deduction skills, given that sort of comprehension ability.

  8. JDX Gold badge

    Harmed her social life and job prospects?

    You'd think it would make her more popular.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

      Unlikely, who will hire someone who pisses in a lift?

      1. swampdog
        Joke

        Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

        Posh places that still have lift attendants. They're into that sort of thing!

        1. Bleu

          Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

          Lift attendants in posh places that still have lift attendants appreciate people pissing in the lifts?

          A level of perversion that I never imagined, and have trouble believing.

          1. swampdog

            Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

            You sound like the Irish, Dylan Moran even. Confused & even in Dublin.

            I was stuck in a lift. I had a 2ltr bottle. What would you do?

            1. Bleu

              Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

              Was the bottle full or empty? Was your bladder full or empty? Did you have a companion in whose penis you had a reason to have an interest?

              No, thought not. Cannot see the relevance of your post.

            2. Bleu

              Re: Harmed her social life and job prospects?

              Although I am pleased to hear 'sound like the Irish', thank you.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "cannot have a legitimate expectation of privacy in circumstances where their behaviour is severely anti-social [...]"

    It sounds like she was being very social!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      And much less anti-social than others who enjoy government support for their actions, but she went from hero to zero by leaving a mess. I know I wouldn't hire her, well maybe part time.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    By the way...

    VERY disappointed that no commentards has used the phrase 'taking the p155' so far, especially as its Friday!

    1. Sir Runcible Spoon
      Joke

      Re: By the way...

      Is that like a p-45 but with an added 110 ?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: By the way...

      > VERY disappointed that no commentards has used the phrase 'taking the p155' so far

      And what the fuck is a P one fiftyfive?

      1. Caustic tWit

        Re: By the way...

        P(iss) O(ne) F(ifty) F(ifty)

        1. Caustic tWit

          Re: By the way...

          Corrected:

          P(iss) O(ne) F(ifty) F(ive)

          Sorry 'bout that.

  11. Bob Vistakin
    Facepalm

    If the piss touched a live wire and they got fried

    Your taxes would be similarly lavishing up their lifestyles handsomely. And their lawyers.

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