At 09:01 PM 1/12/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:

It's time to blow the lid off this "no expectation of privacy in public places" argument that judges and law enforcement now spout out like demented parrots in so many situations.

A court refused to hear the case of a man accused of owning unlicensed pharmaceuticals when a pig entered a locked loo. The loo was part of a gas station; the attendant called the pigs. A prostitute was in there too, with him, and the area rife with folks of that profession, FWIW, which is nothing. But the court held reduced expectation of privacy in a public loo. One imagines much fun with anonymous calls when state employees are in such places, but this does not temper our disgust, or desire for karma with extreme prejudice.