Man Wanted After Video Shows Him Take Photo Up Young Girl's Skirt

MOUNT DORA, Fla. -- A man with a camera phone kneeled behind a young girl at Wal-Mart, stuck his hand under her skirt and snapped a picture, but surveillance video snapped a few pictures of the suspect, as well.

The 13-year-old girl said she heard a noise that sounded like a camera click in the Wal-Mart store on US-441. It happened Saturday afternoon around 4:40pm. The guy was armed with a cell phone that takes photographs and he was following the young girl.

The store security video shows a man sneak up behind the 13-year-old girl in the deodorant aisle. He kneels down and reaches out with his camera' phone underneath the girl's skirt. The victim told police she felt something touch her inner thigh and she heard a click, the sound effect many cell phone cameras make.

"She turned around and saw a white male who looked at her and said, 'Thank you sweetheart,' and left that area of the store," explained Robbin Mayfield, Mount Dora Police Department.

Everyone who shops at the Wal-Mart is being watched. The surveillance and signs are everywhere. Detectives said Mount Dora is still a small place and they believe many people will recognize the suspect. At the same time, they're shocked this type of thing would happen there.

"If you have a 13-year-old daughter, you feel it's safe to let her go to the health and beauty section to pick out a brush or deodorant or whatever without her being violated," Mayfield said.

According to police, the suspect is around 5-foot-5, 180 pounds, bald with a buzz-cut around the sides and sunglasses propped on his head. If you recognize him, call the Mount Dora Police Department.

Even if the cell phone voyeur is caught, he may never go to jail. Video voyeurism is only a misdemeanor in Florida. Subsequent offenses could result in felony charges

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Put a cellphone in the coffin

London - Bury me naked. Put a cellphone in the coffin. Cremate me with my pet's ashes. Bury me with my teeth in. And do make sure I'm actually dead.

Those were some of the most popular requests by people planning their funerals, according to research by the British charity Age Concern, which promotes the interests of elderly people.

Britain is known for being a nation of animal-lovers and it seems Britons cannot bear to be separated from their beloved pets - even when both parties are dead.

Age Concern Funeral Plans polled more than 100 000 of its customers and found that being buried with their pet's ashes was the most common funeral rite request.

But several top requests suggested many were worried about being buried alive, with those planning their funerals asking to be certified dead, a mirror to be held over their faces to check for vapour signs of breathing, and a cellphone left in the coffin.

Others were related to appearance, such as being buried naked "as they came into the world" or with their false teeth in.

Top eight most common requests:

1. To be cremated with their pet's ashes;
2. To have a cellphone in the coffin;
3. To ensure they are dead;
4. For a mirror to be held over the face to check for signs of breathing;
5. To be cremated naked;
6. To be buried in their own garden;
7. To be buried with their teeth in;
8. To be buried with all their savings.

[via IOL]
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Cell Phone Flap in Court

A special prosecutor could not have had worse timing for telling a judge he'd cleared him of theft for taking a college student's ringing cell phone during a class. Special prosecutor Rob Ives had just delivered his report Friday in Tippecanoe Superior Judge Les Meade's crowded courtroom when his own cell phone began ringing.

Ives quickly left the courtroom, which has a posted sign instructing those entering to turn off their cell phones. Other attorneys waited nervously to see Meade's reaction.

As it turned out, the judge liked Ives' ring tone - the song, "I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)."

"It was the perfect ending to this little annoyance," Meade said.

Six weeks ago, Meade was teaching a business law class at Purdue University when a student's cell phone began ringing. Meade took away the student's phone after he said the student failed to turn it off promptly.

Meade said he intended to turn it over to the dean's office the next morning. But the student, in a hurry to get his phone back, called Purdue police.

Officers told Meade if he failed to return the phone to the student his refusal would constitute theft.

While Meade was talking with officers, Richard Cosier, dean of Purdue's School of Management, arrived and took the phone. He returned it to the student after lecturing him about rules against using cell phones during class.

Prosecutor Pat Harrington said he sought a special prosecutor to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

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Hook, line and sinker - and a cellphone

With most of South Korea's people already hooked on cellphones, one operator has found a new market - helping fishermen locate their catches.

SK Telecom said Wednesday it has introduced a service using a float-shaped ultrasonic transmitter, which is connected to a phone on one end and a fishing line on the other.

"This service needs an additional device costing 120 000 won ($120)," SK Telecom spokesperson Lee Kyo-Hyuk told AFP.

"It shows the location of fish and the depth and temperature of the water."

It is the latest in a series of fresh services developed by South Korean firms to attract increasingly sated clients.

In 2004 SK Telecom became the first to introduce a service using ultrasonic waves to repel mosquitoes. Now all other local firms provide similar services.

"The mosquito-chasing service has helped our company attract more than 10 000 new clients every year," Lee said.

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World's highest mobile phone call

A British climber has made the world's highest mobile phone call - from the top of Mount Everest.

Rod Baber also claimed a separate record for sending the highest text message, reports the BBC.

His two calls from the mountain's north ridge were made possible after China set up a new mobile base station.

In the first call Mr Baber described the view, how cold it was and what he wanted to do when back at base camp.

He then rang his wife and children in Cirencester, Gloucs, and told them: "It's amazing. I can't feel my toes."

To make the call at the 8,848 metres summit, Mr Baber had to contend with high winds and temperatures of minus 30C.

The call was made to a voicemail account created by sponsor Motorola to ensure the attempt was recorded.

Mr Baber also did not have much time to make the call because those climbing Everest typically only stay at the summit for 15 minutes.

Making such a call is dangerous as talking into the handset meant he had to remove his oxygen mask.

Batteries for the Motorola handset he used were taped to his body to ensure they stayed at a high enough temperature to power the phone.

[via Ananova]

High-frequency 'Mosquito' Tone

High-frequency 'mosquito' tone allows students to get around school rules on cell phone use. Students now have a new way to fight authority: the "mosquito" tone.

That is, a high frequency cell phone ring tone that most adults can't hear, but youngsters can.

As people age, many adults lose the ability to hear high frequency noises. That makes the ring tone the perfect way for many students to ignore the rule of turning off their cell phones in class.

"Teachers don't hear them. I've never heard any teacher say anything about it," said Bakersfield High freshman Danielle Yanez. The teen said she hears the phones sounding off in class almost every day.

"It's like a little screeching," South High sophomore Alcide Lovo said of the tone. "Some teachers can't hear them because they're older and their hearing isn't that good."

read more at Bakers Field

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UPDATE: At ultrasonic-ringtones.com you can listen to such tones and download them as mp3 files. Personally I'm hearing up to 16.7kHz tone so they rated me as 20 y.o. (I'm 24). :)

Granny in Love Wins Prize for Phone Text Poetry

A love-struck pensioner has come up trumps in a poetry contest with a difference: the poems had to be written in mobile phone "text speak".

Eileen Bridge, 68, a grandmother, from Accrington, Lancashire, won 350 pounds ($697) in the "txt laureate" competition, after she took second place with an ode to her husband of six months.

The entry read: "O hart tht sorz, My luv adorz, He mAks me liv, He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz."

The retired teacher was only beaten by London law student Ben Ziman-Bright, 23, who scooped the top prize of 1,000 pounds.

He wrote: "Not even the wet rustle of rain can dampen today. Your text buoys me above oil-rainbow puddles like a paper boat, so that even soaked to the skin, I am grinning."

The contest, started by mobile phone operator T-Mobile, was judged by Luke Wright, who took his debut show "Luke Wright, Poet Laureate" to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year.

He said: "Ben was easily the winner because of things like his contrast of the 'oil-rainbow' puddles, which is poetic and abstract.

"Then his last line about 'grinning' brings the poem right back down to earth.

"Overall, there were a lot of funny poems - good to know Britain still has a wicked sense of humour."

More than 200 entrants across the country submitted over 300 text poems of less than 160 characters.

T-Mobile set out to find Britain's "txt laureate" after research showed that 46 percent of people crave flirty text messages and 40 percent cherish mobile love messages by keeping them on their handset.

[via Reuters]