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This Woman Busted Her Upskirt Photographer

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Furiosa would truly take pride in the way one woman living in the east China city of Nanjing clapped back against upskirting jerks earlier this month. The woman forced an upskirt photographer to chew his SD card after she busted him surreptitiously taking photos of her using a camera he had been hiding in a black garment bag.

Upskirting is a phenomenon that has been around so long, the image for the Wikipedia article entry on it is Jean-Honoré Fragonard's 1767 painting The Swing. (No joke.) Today's iteration, of course, is helped along by modern photo technology, making it pretty much impossible to A) stop upskirting, B) catch upskirters in the act, or C) get the police to intervene when you have been the victim of an upskirter.

So this woman took matters into her own hands when she noticed some dude on the subway snapping pics up her skirt. She promptly whips out her own phone and starts recording as she confronts and berates the man for his criminal behavior. At first, he denies any wrongdoing, but eventually, he confesses. She then forces him to take the memory card out of his camera in front of her, and makes him chew it up to prove the photos are destroyed. Hey, you can never be too careful with incriminating photo deletion.

After he's all but eaten his SD card (and his idiotic behavior), the guy tries to shield his face from the camera, but the woman keeps rolling and keeps yelling at him. The next time the subway stops, he immediately flees, lowkey hilariously darting back and forth when he gets off the car in search of the exit.

Amazingly, the guy was actually reported to be detained by local police after fleeing the scene. The woman posted her video of the incident to Weibo with a "caption calling for all women not to be afraid," according to People's Daily, saying they "should not tolerate such behavior" from men.

Last year, a similar Facebook video shot by a Boston woman also went viral, after she confronted a man on camera whom she caught taking close-ups and crotch shots of women on the street in broad daylight.

You can watch the video in its entirety below.

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