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Cafe’s one-way mirror allows peeks into restroom

VIENNA

An Austrian artist has installed a one-way mirror in a Vienna cafe that allows men to peek from their restroom into the ladies room.

Alexander Riegler told the daily Heute newspaper Monday that the mirror is an attempt to “stir people into a discussion of voyeurism and surveillance” in an era when almost everyone is being watched.

Cafe employee Alexander Khael- Khaelsberg says the mirror shows only women at the sink and does not offend anyone’s private sphere. He told the daily Heute newspaper Monday that women will get their turn in January, when the mirror is reversed to let them look at men’s faces while they stand at the urinal.

The restaurant recently put up a sign advising women that they are part of an “art project” after complaints.

Phoenix man pleads not guilty in terrorist hoax

PHOENIX

A Phoenix man accused of dressing his nephew in a sheet, sending him into a busy street with a fake grenade launcher and filming the teen as he pointed the phony weapon at passing cars pleaded not guilty.

A Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman says 39-year-old Michael D. Turley entered the plea Thursday to falsely perpetuating a terrorism act.

Authorities allege Turley filmed his nephew as the masked 16-year-old pointed a fake grenade launcher at vehicles July 28 in northwest Phoenix.

The film then was posted on YouTube. In it, a narrator says he wanted to see how long it took authorities to respond. Police have identified the narrator as Turley.

Turley also faces counts of endangerment, misconduct involving simulated explosives and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Clerks rip clothes off shoplifting suspect in NYC

NEW YORK

A worker at a 7-Eleven in Brooklyn has lost his job after he and other store employees were recorded ripping the clothes off a suspected shoplifter.

The video was recorded by a bystander and then promptly posted on the Internet. It begins with two clerks dragging the man back into the store and continues as they try to wrestle him into submission.

In the process, his shirt is ripped off, his pants fall down and he is left struggling in his boxers. One worker appears to bite the man on the shoulder. Another tries to yank him up by his underwear.

Through it all, the man shouts, “I got nothing, man!” while disbelieving patrons alternate between laughing and shouting at the clerks to let the man go.

“Somebody call the police. This is ridiculous!” one patron shouts.

Associated Press