UK: Upskirting to become crime carrying two-year sentence

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Car theft might get you as little as a year in country jail. If the car isn't worth much.

minimum sentence vs maximum sentence.

[valax]

if I took an underskirt of an E-thot would that be considered theft or sexual harassment lol?

[Spiffums]

Until you go over a bit of statistics are realize that former victims of pedos are more likely to become predators. It is a mental illness, not an evil.

Doesn't matter how they got that way. They prey on kids and therefore my opinion stands.

[Minikin]

Yes, it's a crime but two years seems severe.

Who is Gina Martin?

why is two years severe?

[Zantos]

2 Years in jail is a bit much. Give them community service, a fine, maybe a few months in jail. Give it a ramp up, not just flat out 2 years. 2 years for 1 offense for going out of your way to see someones underwear without their permission is absurd. If it leads to physical harm, sure, ramp it up. Would I be ticked if someone pantsed me in public? Sure, especially since its more likely they'll see way more. But im not going to demand they spend 2 years in jail. Thats just sad.

[SavoirFaire]

Did prisons over there go private and this is a means for them to cash in? Seems like when we have laws in the US with high potential sentences with low potential harm (ala pot laws) it’s “big prison” on the march...

[PreparedFor]

Pathetic law that makes no sense.

[Max Hurt]

Interesting how is this law going to interact with female tennis? Will all photographers going to go to jail after the first match?
Or perhaps the players will sign some sort of written consent that they permit others taking photos of their underwear before each game.
Even then... as a photographer how are you going to be sure that the players did sign a consent?

Stupid law is stupid. It will probably never going to be enforced (there are many laws like that).

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

2 Years in jail is a bit much. Give them community service, a fine, maybe a few months in jail. Give it a ramp up, not just flat out 2 years. 2 years for 1 offense for going out of your way to see someones underwear without their permission is absurd. If it leads to physical harm, sure, ramp it up. Would I be ticked if someone pantsed me in public? Sure, especially since its more likely they'll see way more. But im not going to demand they spend 2 years in jail. Thats just sad.

It's not a "flat out 2 years"...2 years is the maximum sentence.

Victims previously had to use other avenues likes outraging public decency but upskirting offences will now come with a sentence of up to two years in prison.

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Upskirting hardly affects the supposed victims. I mean really, somebody took a picture of your underwear (which you should be wearing unless you are a slut) without your permission? How traumatic. How truly traumatic.

Today I learned that going commando makes you a slut. The world we live in.

I guess I'm a slut

[draynay]

Pathetic law that makes no sense.

Four accounts!? You need to find a more productive use for your time besides getting banned from mmo champ.

[Kumorii]

Everything about upskirting is weird to me.

1) Why the hell would you want to do this to a random person when you can type "girls in panties" in Google and see the same shit.

Probably a rush to do it, kinda how receiving nudes are better than looking up nudes.
Just like with most crimes, fulfilling a need.

[Frolk]

You linked an article... try reading it.

You expect him to have time to do that, being unemployed makes him a very busy man, no time to read over what "threads" he write before posting.