British police have launched a search for a man who pinched the bottom of a TV reporter while she was broadcasting a live news report.
Tens of thousands of YouTube viewers around the world have seen the clip of the moment when reporter Sue Turton was "goosed" by the mystery man while reporting from a flooded street in Oxford last week.
While the Channel 4 reporter has told police she does not want to press charges, detectives insist they want to catch the bottom pincher and slap him with a £80 fine.
"We are taking this seriously," a Thames Valley police spokesman told The Guardian newspaper.
"We just think it was particularly stupid and obnoxious behaviour and the individual concerned needs some kind of sanction."
Footage of the goosing incident shows Ms Turton standing in a flooded street while a man comes up behind her and pinches her on the right side of her bottom before rushing away.
The pinch caused Ms Turton to visibly flinch, but she carried on with her live cross for Channel 4 news.
"I personally found the matter quite humiliating and somewhat disrespectful to the plight of those I was reporting about," she told the newspaper. "Some may say I'm being prudish. I've been in much more threatening situations throughout my reporting career, but they were in far-flung places. Male reporters would never be treated to a public goosing."
2 comments:
About 2 years ago in a nearby village, a group of twentysomethings were having a party and a couple of police officers wandered in to make sure everything was ok. One of the cops was female and was goosed by one of the revellers. He was arrested, fined £200 and put on the sex offenders register for a couple of years. Personally, I thought, "good for the cop".
She'd be in her element if she moved to Rome!
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