Man arrested for buying junior high school girl's panties

[ZenGum]

And how is a girl supposed to make a living selling them, when some folks are giving them away?

from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/

26/2071178.htm

Aussies urged to post panties to Burma embassy
A campaign is underway to chastise Burma's military regime, not through dialogue or sanctions, but by flooding the country's foreign embassies with women's underwear, an activist said.

A pro-democracy group based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai is urging people all over the world to "post, deliver or fling" their undergarments to Burma's international embassies.

"The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious. They believe that contact with a woman's panties or sarong can rob them of their power," the Lanna Action for Burma group said on its website.

SNIP

Those behind the so-called "Panty Power" campaign hope that lingerie can succeed where international diplomacy has so far failed.

"We want to raise awareness first, and we want to target the Burmese government officials, letting them know we are against them abusing their power," said Tomoko, an activist with Lanna Action for Burma.

Tomoko, who goes by one name only, said she had heard that Burma's embassy in Canberra as well as others in Thailand and the United States have been targeted by the Panty Power campaign, which began last week.

"We are sending [the generals] panties as a symbol of putting their power down," she said.

[ZenGum]

In the latest development in the world of Japanese school-girl-underpants perversions, the Singapore Straights Times reports the following:

Underwear fetish gets out of hand for Japanese man

TOKYO - A JAPANESE man who privately enjoyed wearing girls' underwear was arrested after his excitement went too far and he decorated his neighbourhood with the undergarments, police said on Monday.

Kazuo Oshitani, a 48-year-old office clerk and father of three, allegedly wore girls' underwear and nylons and then scattered them across his block in western Osaka prefecture, a police spokesman said.

'I found it sexually arousing to imagine how shocked people would get when spotting the underwear,' he said, according to police.

He allegedly spread girls' underpants and nylons on bicycles, cars and even the front doors of his neighbours, police said.

Police, who had received about 170 complaints from local residents, raided his house and confiscated more than 200 pairs of underwear and a few sex toys, the spokesman said.

While his private activity appeared legal, he was arrested on Sunday - on charges of littering. -- AFP

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I find underpants related crime mildly amusing .. does this make me a pervert? If you share this amusement, read on:

A Singapore national serviceman who sashayed into a lift early one morning wearing only a pink bikini has been handed a day's jail and a $US7,529 fine by a court in the city-state, a newspaper has reported.

Tan Wen Zhong, 21, admitted to five charges, including "outraging the modesty" of the woman who shared the lift with him and "fraudulent possession of women's underwear", Singapore's Straits Times reported.

The paper said a subsequent police search of his apartment turned up 46 pieces of women's underwear and bikinis as well as four obscene films.

Tan, who was completing Singapore's mandatory national service when he committed the offence in April, was also accused of grabbing a 23-year-old woman's buttocks a year ago and of shoplifting a pair of sunglasses two years ago.

In mitigation, Tan's lawyer said his client had been badly affected by his parents' divorce during his formative years.

"fraudulent possession of women's underwear"?
WTF? They actually have this law on the books?? I mean, yes Singapore is infamously strict, but this is bizarre.

[Sundae]

There are some stained and sweaty shoes for sale on eBay. I can only think they are fetish items. At the bottom they generally say, "These will be cleaned to eBay standards after purchase" which doesn't make sense when they are advertised as dirty...

They don't sell for much - perhaps British fetishists haven't caught on yet.

[Shawnee123]

"A beautiful sight
We're happy tonight
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear."

At least they could tell he had a tan zhong. Maybe he has a good tanning bed.

[SteveDallas]

I'm curious as to the basis for the "fraudulent possession" charge. Had he not paid for them? I can see "improper" use, but "fraudulent" implies an intent to deceive... and it seems he was making no bones (sorry) about what he was doing. If there is indeed such a law on the books, that's just evidence of how often people are doing it.

[Clodfobble]

Perhaps the underwear were not new when he, uh, acquired them.