{"id":242,"date":"2005-05-19T09:36:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/new_danger.html"},"modified":"2005-05-19T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:36:45","slug":"new_danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/new_danger.html","title":{"rendered":"New Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if <a href=\"http:\/\/jodielaneproject.org\/\">electrified sidewalks<\/a> weren&#8217;t already bad enough, skirt-wearing pedestrians now must worry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/19\/nyregion\/19grate.html?ex=1274155200&#038;en=a2030f8ab373e742&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">peeping toms working from under the subway grates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At first, it looked as if it might be a bomb. The truth, it turned out, was not as dangerous but was alarming nevertheless: someone had put a video camera below a street grate on the Upper East Side, apparently placed to look up the skirts of women walking past, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>A passer-by spotted the camera on Tuesday on a shelf above a subway catwalk, about three feet below street level, rigged to a battery pack and pointed straight up on the south side of 88th Street just west of Lexington Avenue. After the passer-by called the police, the bomb squad arrived, and a technician dropped onto the catwalk, among cigarette butts, bottle caps and gum wrappers, to examine a camera connected to a digital video recorder, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery repulsed women who live or work near the corner.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess I have to be a little more careful now walking on the street.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The (diminished but still present) threat of mugging, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/years_from_now.html\">iPod heists<\/a>, electrified sidewalks &#8212; how much more careful can one possibly be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if electrified sidewalks weren&#8217;t already bad enough, skirt-wearing pedestrians now must worry about peeping toms working from under the subway grates: At first, it looked as if it might be a bomb. The truth, it turned out, was not as dangerous but was alarming nevertheless: someone had put a video camera below a street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}