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Nov. 15, 1999
A Mexican, a Scottish and a Japanese Peeping Tom were all exposed and punished last week, two by judges and one by divine intervention.
Kazuhiro Takashima, 32, received a three-year suspended prison sentence from the Tokyo District Court for his voyeuristic adventures, notes the Nov. 9 Mainichi Daily News. Takashima, a reporter at Tokyo Broadcasting System, was busted after he sneaked into eight separate houses to clandestinely film naked women in their baths. The wet-fetish weirdo was also fired by his employer, for "getting to the bottom" of these non-assigned topics.
Another video snooper was dismissed near Glasgow, claims a report in the Nov. 10 Scottish Daily Record. David Henderson, a 46-year-old police CCTV operator, was banished after he zoomed his remote-controlled cameras in on the buttocks and thighs of three nubile women who were sashaying through the Paisley town center. Henderson was already under suspicion after his arrest for publicly fondling himself two years ago.
The unluckiest leerer of all was Raul Zarate, a Tapachula Prison warden in Chiapas, Mexico. Raul grabbed his binoculars and scampered high on a rooftop to ogle an inmate below him enjoying sex with his wife during a conjugal visit, reports the Nov. 10 La Cronica. Absorbed in the arousing view, Raul stumbled over a skylight and plummeted 23 feet, dying instantly as he crashed right next to the lovers' bed. His fatal intrusion instigated a jail riot that was quickly suppressed.
The three skin-spies above all suffered fates dissimilar to the original "Peeping Tom" of 11th century English folklore. When Lady Godiva rode bare-body through the streets of Coventry, the townspeople were ordered to avert their glance. Everyone obeyed the decree, except a tailor named Tom, who couldn't resist snatching a peek. Alas! As he gazed in awe at the noble nudity of glam Godiva, his eyesight dimmed, forevermore. "Peeping Tom" was magically cursed with blindness.
