Public Masturbator Caught On Camera Arrested

DavidRamsay99 · 27-07-2015 04:08PM #1

A Parisian actress named Camille Regnier was flashed on a train by a stranger and put the video up on social media with a long message complaining about men who masturbate in front of women on public transportation. The man was later identified and arrested.

A study of females who public transport in France earlier this year found that 100% of respondents experienced sexual harassment or assault on public transport.

Have you experienced this phenomenon on public transport in Ireland?

Is this phenomenon happening at the same level everywhere?

zeffabelli · 28-07-2015 01:08PM

Yes I have seen this on public transport, not in Ireland though.

I also know someone who had sex on the NYC subway after he watched Risky Business.

MrWalsh · 28-07-2015 01:39PM

I dont use public transport much anymore but when I did, yes, Ive seen it more than once.

rainbow kirby · 28-07-2015 04:21PM

I've seen a guy have a pull on the 49 in Dublin, and there are plenty of rush hour frotteurs on the tube in London. Unfortunately it happens just about everywhere.

MrWalsh · 28-07-2015 04:23PM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I've seen a guy have a pull on the 49 in Dublin

That was my main bus route when I did use public transport!

jimmii · 28-07-2015 04:30PM

I was on the bus glasnevin when it happened once about a year ago. The driver stopped the bus and was trying to get the guards there he tried to stall the guy who had obviously copped what was going on. Eventually he just pulled the little lever that opens the door and went the driver chased after him but obviously couldn't really do much to stop him. Seems crazy to do it somewhere with so many cameras I guess these people aren't thinking straight really though.

RDM_83 again · 28-07-2015 10:14PM

DavidRamsay99 wrote: »

A study of females who public transport in France earlier this year found that 100% of respondents

As an observation, whenever you see a study that says 100% of respondents your seeing a study that has too small a sample size!

Sort of curious if its generally directed at a particular person or would it normally be some sort of OCD type behavior (like is there a noticable difference between flashers and public masturbators) ,saw homeless lad taking a chop recently, it was incredibly grim but not directed at any of the (many) passers by AFAIK.

IvyTheTerrible · 29-07-2015 09:07AM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

As an observation, whenever you see a study that says 100% of respondents your seeing a study that has too small a sample size!

Sort of curious if its generally directed at a particular person or would it normally be some sort of OCD type behavior (like is there a noticable difference between flashers and public masturbators) ,saw homeless lad taking a chop recently, it was incredibly grim but not directed at any of the (many) passers by AFAIK.

There was a lot of coverage of that study on French news earlier this year. Public masturbation was only a small part of it. It was all sexual harassment they were looking at.

CaraMay · 29-07-2015 09:21AM

I just can't get into their mentality. It's so risky

OneOfThem · 29-07-2015 06:55PM

CaraMay wrote: »

I just can't get into their mentality. It's so risky

I'd have thought that's the point? Or at least part of it. Like having sex outdoors, the thrill of the risk, etc.

Although I'd say with some of these guys it's also a power thing or whatever. Forcing a woman to see something sexual they don't want to see. That kind of thing.

Think I remember reading a thing that quite a lot of rapists that attack strangers start off with this kind of behaviour.

CaraMay · 29-07-2015 08:26PM

Yeah I don't know about then escalating to rape but I do think it's next to impossible to stop.

MrWalsh · 29-07-2015 08:41PM

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eviltwin · 29-07-2015 08:59PM

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Princess Peach · 29-07-2015 09:35PM

Happened to me on the Luas last month.

bee06 · 30-07-2015 06:51PM

I must have lived a very sheltered life so far. Never seen anything like that!

MrWalsh · 30-07-2015 08:01PM

I was first flashed at as a very young child. Real stereotypical stuff, a man in a long coat hiding in some bushes on a country road, he stepped out and held the coat open, he was starkers underneath. I was probably 8 and very frightened, but I didn't really understand what was going on.

pew · 30-07-2015 08:58PM

Yup happened to me in France when I was waiting for a bus to the airport before.

Never in Ireland though

Teyla Emmagan · 30-07-2015 09:01PM

Have been flashed at in France but never in Ireland.

They must be very odd in France.

IvyTheTerrible · 31-07-2015 07:30AM

I haven't seen any flashers here in France (although one of my friends has) but I have been hassled by someone at the bus stop here.

Penny Tration · 31-07-2015 10:45AM

MrWalsh wrote: »

I was first flashed at as a very young child. Real stereotypical stuff, a man in a long coat hiding in some bushes on a country road, he stepped out and held the coat open, he was starkers underneath. I was probably 8 and very frightened, but I didn't really understand what was going on.

Happened to my younger sister last year when she was sixteen. Walking home from school, through the grounds of Beaumont Hospital, guy opens his jacket to show off his bits and starts fondling himself. We called the police and the sister was in the station to give a statement (the officer she dealt with was fantastic, and even let her come back up the next evening just for a chat because my sister was so upset), but nothing came of it.

I've seen it happen a few times. Twice on public transport.

Once when working in Supermac's. I was nineteen and my colleague (still my friend, years on) was sixteen. Old guy sitting at the table, watching us both on tills, while jacking off. Manager and assistant manager found it hilarious, so I called the police myself. He left. They had him on cctv but nothing was done and my colleague and I were told to stop crying (she was crying, I was calming her down), and get back to work. :rolleyes:

01-08-2015 07:24PM

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Happened to my younger sister last year when she was sixteen. Walking home from school, through the grounds of Beaumont Hospital, guy opens his jacket to show off his bits and starts fondling himself. We called the police and the sister was in the station to give a statement (the officer she dealt with was fantastic, and even let her come back up the next evening just for a chat because my sister was so upset), but nothing came of it.

I've seen it happen a few times. Twice on public transport.

Once when working in Supermac's. I was nineteen and my colleague (still my friend, years on) was sixteen. Old guy sitting at the table, watching us both on tills, while jacking off. Manager and assistant manager found it hilarious, so I called the police myself. He left. They had him on cctv but nothing was done and my colleague and I were told to stop crying (she was crying, I was calming her down), and get back to work. :rolleyes:

That's a very sensitive management team in that Supermacs. It's that kind of attitude - that nothing really happened - that lets these guys away with this stuff for years and years. Sometimes, until it isn't enough anymore and they risk worse.

I've been flashed a few times, once in a very scary situation. It's not something you can just forget immediately.

porsche boy · 01-08-2015 07:30PM

So has anyone seen a female flasher? Or is it just blokes that are deviants? I mean if I was to see a woman flash me down the park I can't say I'd be horrified, take aback maybe

01-08-2015 07:34PM

porsche boy wrote: »

So has anyone seen a female flasher? Or is it just blokes that are deviants? I mean if I was to see a woman flash me down the park I can't say I'd be horrified, take aback maybe

You'll be more than taken aback if enough perverts get their jollies from shocking you. Once wouldn't scar you for life, a good few times as a child and then one or two more as an adult, and it loses it's novelty value.

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! · 01-08-2015 07:39PM

I saw the same man twice but at different times of the year masturbating in broad daylight. Both times I was getting the bus home from Dublin at Ulster Bank on Georges Quay and there he was, fiddling away.
Couldnt believe my eyes. Anyone who gets a bus there knows how busy that street is on a Friday afternoon/evening.
He was down on his honkers and dressed head to toe in black.

Both times I saw him I was sitting on the bus but the second time I wanted a winess so brought it to the attention of the chap sitting beside me. Anyway the man realised we were looking at him and got up and ran off.

fatknacker · 01-08-2015 10:54PM

Just whip the phone out and take pics / film them if they like to put themselves on show so much.

kylith · 03-08-2015 09:15AM

I was getting a haircut once when suddenly everyone in the place turned to the window and started laughing uproariously. A flasher had gotten right up to the window and decided to expose himself to the whole place, only to be greeted by 20 women laughing at him. I missed the whole thing because I didn't have my glasses on. I hope it gave him a shock.

r93kaey5p2izun · 03-08-2015 02:39PM

Once when I was around 20 I was sitting beside the window at the back of a bus when I realised the man beside me was masturbating. He was leaning heavily against me. I was afraid and felt trapped but too embarrassed to shout out anything. Eventually I got myself together and just stood up suddenly, pushed past him and got off at the next stop. That incident freaked me out and I felt ashamed that I didn't handle it better at the time either.

I've also been flashed twice. Once in my early 20s at the entrance to my estate when I was coming home from the library in college around 22.30. I got a shock initially but that was more to do someone appearing out of nowhere on a dark road. The guy only had one leg and was on crutches!

When I was 15 I was sitting at a bus stop outside Conyngham Road bus garage when I saw something moving in the bushes of the Phoenix Park opposite me. After a moment I realised it was a man masturbating while staring at me. Once he realised I had seen him he moved forward into clearer view. I felt disgusted rather than afraid so I decided to walk to the previous bus stop at Parkgate Street because it's much busier with people. The guy jumped down from the park wall and followed me but stayed on the opposite footpath. This was broad daylight and he was pulling at himself along a busy road! There were lots of people at the next bus stop so I stopped there and felt safe enough and thankfully the weirdo must have decided not to go any further.

Gongoozler · 04-08-2015 02:25PM

Besides the situation in the post before mine, I really can't understand why anyone would feel upset over something like that. It can hardly be classed as a sexual assault, nobody is doing anything to you. it may be rotten to see, or unpleasant, but crying, really? I don't see why.

And no I've never heard of this happening, anywhere tbh.

04-08-2015 02:30PM

Some people just react unfavourably to being some perverts public **** fodder, the fault is hardly with them.

MrWalsh · 04-08-2015 02:31PM

Gongoozler wrote: »

Besides the situation in the post before mine, I really can't understand why anyone would feel upset over something like that. It can hardly be classed as a sexual assault, nobody is doing anything to you. it may be rotten to see, or unpleasant, but crying, really? I don't see why.

Itd be the fright that would upset me. Id be afraid that if someone was unhinged enough to masturbate in front of me (or even just flash in front of me), then god knows what they might be capable of.

Penny Tration · 04-08-2015 02:48PM

Gongoozler wrote: »

Besides the situation in the post before mine, I really can't understand why anyone would feel upset over something like that. It can hardly be classed as a sexual assault, nobody is doing anything to you. it may be rotten to see, or unpleasant, but crying, really? I don't see why.

And no I've never heard of this happening, anywhere tbh.

Well, I've never personally cried or gotten upset at it, just been disgusted tbh, bit since I mentioned my 16 year old colleague crying -

I totally see why she did. A fairly innocent, virginal child knowing a man was getting off by looking at her? Yeah, that's upsetting, especially when you have to stay in view of the sick git to do your job.

Public Masturbator Caught On Camera Arrested

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