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City College Bathroom Creeper Uses Cellphone for Peeping
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Female students at Riverside City College have been warned today about a bathroom lurker who is using his cellphone camera to do some under-stall peeping, according to KTLA. One student describes her de-briefed encounter in the campus's Quadrangle ladies' room to police, indicating that all but one toilet seat in the facility were "covered in urine," forcing her choice of stalls.
While in the stall, she " noticed a hand holding a cell phone coming from under the next stall." She fled, and immediately contacted the authorities.
The suspect is described as "African-American, about 5-foot-11, weighing 170 pounds with sharp facial features, including a pointed chin, and long, messy hair with a pony tail," wearing "a white baseball cap, a light-colored jacket with several colorful patches on it and light-colored jeans."
Or, as one TV news reporter described, he's "a creep with a cellphone."
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