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Flickr Helps Identify Flasher

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This story about how a woman used her camera phone to photograph a subway sex offender and post it on Yahoo!'s photoblogging service Flickr, which led police to identifying him is gross. We'll let you make your own jokes as every sentence you come across is (accidentally) ripe with innuendo. Hope you enjoy yourself. It all began on an uptown Manhattan R train on a late August afternoon. Twenty-two-year-old web developer Thao Nguyen was sitting opposite a blond-haired man in a black shirt and blue jeans. "He kept staring at me," she told the New York Daily News. "I could feel his eyes on me. I wanted to avoid eye contact so I looked away, but I could see his reflection in the window." And then, he did something quite Craigslist. A slew of bloggers linked to the photo, which soon found itself on the front page of the New York Daily News. A few days later, after six other victims recognized him, the man was identified as

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