Sneaker Peeker Arrested in Australia … Its gotta be the shoes

First there was the shoe bomber, now we have the “sneaker peeker”. Though the latter is less harmful to a plane, the “sneaker peeker” could certainly reek havoc for unsuspecting women and make their lives a certain embarrassing hell. Maxwell Smart had a shoe phone, this perv had a camera in his sneakers that enabled him to take pictures up woman’s skirts. What have we come to? As they say … “Its gotta be the shoes …”.

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) – An Australian man who for four years used a tiny camera hidden in the toe of his shoe to film up women’s skirts on commuter trams has been arrested by police.

The man used the device, hidden in a pair of black sneakers, to film women’s underwear, while a second camera disguised as a music player captured images of their faces to later match.

The man, in his 20s, was arrested after one woman became suspicious of his behavior on a commuter tram in Melbourne, a city of around 4 million, and spotted the hidden lens, Australian newspapers reported on Thursday.

Searching the man’s home, police later seized photographs and recording equipment showing the man had been secretly filming up female dresses for at least four years.