Author: yarbs

In what has to be the oddest most badass public service campaign ever, the Osaka Police Department has been using a man dressed as RoboCop to patrol trains and protect women from handsy men and other train riding perverts. According to Britain’s Daily Mirror, RoboCop can make arrests and also warns passengers to keep an eye on their valuables. Or as the police department’s website puts it: “RoboCop is a hammer of justice to molesters threatening women.” That’s more like it.

Sometimes real life is even better than the movie. Now, if we’d only had RoboCop to deal with the Muni Humper.

Check out the Mirror UK’s site to watch the compelling video.

Photo by torbakhopper

In a ruling that elicited a collective WTF, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held last week that Michael Robertson, a man arrested for taking cellphone photos up women’s skirts and dresses, hadn’t done anything illegal because the state’s Peeping Tom laws don’t cover people who are clothed and in public spaces. Fortunately, the state legislature moved quickly to close the loophole and on Friday the governor signed a bill strengthening Massachusetts’ voyeurism laws.

We’re glad that California already has this sorted out. According to a San Diego TV news station, “In California “upskirting” is considered disorderly conduct. The act is secretly videotaping a female or male’s intimate parts without their consent.” Well, then.

Read more about Robertson at SFGate.

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Offering further proof that dogs are THEE BEST, a guide dog named Orlando is being credited with helping to save his owner, who fainted in a New York City subway station, sending the two tumbling onto the subway tracks.

According to the Associated Press, Cecil Williams is still unsure why he passed out. He said that Orlando tried to hold him up, barking frantically before they both went over the edge. Bystanders called for help, the subway driver was able to slow the train, and Cecil and Orlando suffered only minor injuries.

Who’s a good boy? A very good boy?

Via Yahoo News.

Pictured above: An adorable dog in a backpack in a BART station, not the dog or the human mentioned in the story. But, cute!

Photo by AP Photo/Metropolitan Transit Authority via Syracuse.com

What does it take to upend New York City’s massive subway system? Two tiny kittens, apparently.

Late last month, transit workers shut down two subway lines for more than an hour after a pair of striped kittehs were spotted running on the tracks. The kittens were eventually rescued, and the “yays!” did ensue.

But current NYC mayoral candidate and former MTA chair Joe Lhota later told the media that he thought the shutdown was a bad idea. All together now: “Booooooo!”

New York’s mayoral primaries are today, and our guess is that Lhota won’t be able to shore up the cat lady vote.

But this does make us wonder: How would our city officials and politicians handle it if two adorable felines were to get stuck on Muni Metro or BART tracks?

Via Syracuse.com.