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In November 2001 police charged 43-year-old Daniel W. Searfoss with using a tiny lens in his shoe, attached to a video camera he carried in a bag, to photograph underneath women’s skirts at a flea market in Brandon, Florida. He’d just finished probation for a similar incident at a Wal-Mart, and after scanning 45 videotapes from his home, police charged him with another incident at a church in Plant City. At a court hearing last month the prosecutor told the judge that Searfoss had tried to aim his shoe under the dresses of several women in the county probation office.
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In Australia, 22-year-old Kane Rundle sued the State Rail Authority of New South Wales for $1 million because of brain damage he sustained during a train ride in 1994. The plaintiff hit his head while leaning out of a moving train, spraying graffiti, but his lawyers argue that the company was aware of passengers spraying graffiti and should have done more to prevent it.
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