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Flasher II

Earlier this month I posted a photo of a subway flasher whose quick thinking victim snapped a photo of him after his act. Today, the NY Daily News reports a similar case in which a woman uses her camera phone to take a photo of the pervert as he is zipping up. A little googling and I was able to find the woman's original account on Flickr. While it might be an old news in the blogosphere it's new to me. So, here goes.

I was riding on the R train uptown at 3pm on Friday August 18th when a man exposed and began molesting himself on the train. It was at the very end of the train but it wasn't completely empty. A japanese couple sat on the other side and the man was sitting adjacent to me. I was minding my own business, taking the train to work as usual when this man got on the car and kept staring at me. I tried to avoid eye contact with him but I had a feeling he was up to no good when he kept massaging his crotch. I couldn't believe this guy had the audacity to do something like this in the middle of the day! So I took out my cell-phone and turned on the camera. Then I aimed the camera at him and took a quick shot. He quickly zipped himself up and got off at the next stop (it was two-three stops before union square). That didn't prevent me from getting a really good shot of him in the act.

You can read the rest here.

The phone that she has used is a Samsung P777 which has a 1.3 megapixel camera. Nice.

UPDATE

Cops want to question a Manhattan restaurant owner after getting numerous tips that he's the subway flasher caught in the act by camera phone, police sources said last night.

Nearly two dozen people have phoned the Daily News and the NYPD to say they believe Dan Hoyt, co-owner of raw-food eateries called Quintessence, is the man whose photo appeared on the cover of Saturday's pape

Busted.

"...This will be our hammer..."

What should you expect when Courtney Love moves in for a few days?

She wound up moving in with Strauss and his cohorts and immediately made her mark: swearing at a dog, threatening to punch a male roommate in the face, borrowing Strauss' used toothbrush, and sitting in on pickup seminars topless while offering advice to the students. One night she woke him up at 2:20 a.m. with a Prada shoe in her hand, exclaiming, "Let's redecorate the house. This will be our hammer."

Sweet, I want to party with her!

Somebody give her a reality show or something.

What's in a name?

It's listed on her immigration ID card, but cops find it hard to believe that this alleged hooker's name is really Linda Lay.
"I don't know what to say," Nassau County Police Deputy Inspector Rick Capece commented.

Lay, 31, of Flushing, Queens, and her partner, Siatha Lai, 39, of Elmhurst, Queens, were charged with prostitution after the raid of a Hicksville massage parlor called Acupuncture and Herbal Health at 181 Old Country Road.

The two women were collared when undercover detectives were offered more than a backrub at the parlor, police said.

Bah, prostitution in massage parlors??? Who knew?

Panasonic FZ30

The review of the Panasonic FZ30 should be up in a few hours on DC Resource. FZ30, ofcourse, is the successor to the legendary FZ20. Although the 12x ( 35-420mm) lense is no longer 2.8 throughout the whole range, it's still pretty damn good (2.8 - 3.7). New things to get excited about are the flip out lcd, focus and zoom rings, shutter can be kept open for 60 (!) seconds, quicker shutter lag (probably .3 - .4 seconds) and an 8 megapixel sensor. The disappointmens are the size, the 1/1.8 sensor (should've been 2/3) and the fact that the ISO still goes up to only 400. FZ20 was pretty big, but the FZ30 is pretty damn huge at 3.37" x 5.54" x 5.44". At that kind of heft FZ30 is competing with SLR's and could definately be an SLR killer (for amateurs such as me) if the ISO went up to 1600 (or at least 800). The 400 limit is a deal breaker however.

I am still excited about the upcoming review, but most likely will end up getting the successor to the FZ5, which hasn't been anounced yet. FZ5 is pretty much the same camera as the FZ20, but with less bells and whistles (no zoom ring), and is a whole lot smaller.

UPDATE

The review is out. Just as I suspected, 1/1.8 is way too small of a sensor for an 8mp camera. Jeff Keller says exactly what I've been saying this morning:

Now let's talk about noise. With over 8 million pixels on a 1/1.8" CCD, the above average noise levels shouldn't be too surprising. Noise levels are a bit higher than other 8 Megapixel cameras I've seen thus far, and all of those had larger 2/3" sensors. At ISO 80 and 100, you'll notice some grain in your images. At ISO 200 and 400, things get rather nasty

Yep. Definately should've been a 2/3" sensor. The camera would've produced much cleaner images and they could probably squeeze 800 ISO out of it, too.

That being said, the FZ30 did get a favorable review.

Flasher

via Gawker

Some girl gets flashed on the subway and manages to take a photo of the creep with her phone. Nice! Details here.

Danny T

Danny Tenaglia was spinning at Crobar on Saturday. One of the highlights, music aside - at the very beginning of his set he announced "Welcome to Vinyl! Psssssssyche! Welcome to Crobar!" and the crowd went wild. Oh, man. That was a good, good time.

Ghetto Literature

One of the great things about public transportation is that you get to see who's reading what. Today I saw a big, black lady reading Every Thug Needs a Lady on the train.

Naturally, I had to look it up.

"Every Thug Needs A Lady" is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark's "Thugs And The Women Who Love Them". After taking us through the rugged, thug-filled lives of Jaz, Kyra and Angel, Clark now takes us into the unique and unbelievable life of their best friend Roz. She's sexy, beautiful, and a slave for the love of Trae, her irresistable thuggish beau. Will Roz and Trae's love survive? The answers lie inside the pages of "Every Thug Needs A Lady"!

Mmm mh! That's right! And what did the readers think about the book? Thug lover "nuk", from Brooklyn, says - i was mad at how the book ended of all the things to happen at the end trea gets shot that just killed my whole mood. Daymn, sistah, how you gonna reveal the ending like dat?

Avra

Took a friend out to Avra Estiatorio tonight. The place was packed, which is pretty amazing for a wednesday night. Unfortunately, when restaraunts start to boom they try to squeeze in as many tables as possible and cease being cozy, thus losing their appeal. Sure, the swordfish was killer, and my friend raved about the salmon (and she's a picky eater!), but who wants to eat in a cafeteria like setting?

Criminals are getting younger and younger..

TAMPA, Fla. — The 19-year-old son of former baseball star Dwight Gooden was arrested for violating probation and faced additional charges of having marijuana and bullets in his car, police said. Dwight Eugene Gooden Jr. was being held Monday without bond. A jail spokeswoman didn’t know if he had an attorney.

Gooden Jr. was already wanted on an outstanding warrant of violating probation from a 1994 crack cocaine conviction. He was jailed early Sunday after officers found him outside a downtown Tampa club with 16 grams of marijuana and .44-caliber ammunition in his car, police spokesman Joe Durkin said.

Ok, what's going on here? The guy is 19 and he had a 1994 crack cocaine conviction? That makes him 8 at the time?