NEWS.com.au | Man fined over topless phone photos (December 1, 2004): "Man fined over topless phone photos
December 1, 2004
If taking photos of half naked women lying around on a public beach is offensive, why is not the act of lying around half naked on a public beach offensive?
What happens the next time some one wants to take a picture of a beach?
Bogs Doddy.
A SYDNEY man was fined $500 today for taking photographs of topless women on Coogee Beach with his mobile phone.
Labourer Peter Mackenzie, 25, of Coogee, pleaded guilty in Waverley Local Court to behaving offensively in a public place on November 6.
It is believed to be the first time anyone has been prosecuted over such photography.
The partner of a woman he snapped confronted Mackenzie and called the police, staying with him at the beach until officers arrived.
Mackenzie told the court he had agonised over his actions.
'I really feel like I've blemished 25 years of being a decent person,' he said.
Mackenzie faced three months in jail, but Magistrate Lee Gilmore instead fined him $500, warning him that 'women are not objects of decoration for men's gratification'.
Mackenzie's Nokia camera phone will be destroyed.
AAP.
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