Careful with your BlackBerry. You never know when it will Tweet on its own

sdifox

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http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/29/pc-candidates-privates-appear-on-twitter



Rookie PC candidate George Lepp says he’s embarrassed that a photo of his family jewels was posted on his campaign Twitter account for about 20 minutes before it was quickly unzipped.
Alan Sakach, communications director for the Ontario Conservatives, said the photo was inadvertently taken by Lepp’s BlackBerry when it was in his front pocket. The photo was posted after someone took it from the candidate for the riding of Niagara Falls, according to Sakach.
“He is pretty upset and embarrassed,” Sakach said of a photo that was posted on Lepp’s account Sunday. “It was removed as soon as it came to his attention.”
The Toronto Sun obtained grainy copies of the Twitter page images before they were removed.
The pictures — too graphic to reproduce in the newspaper — are of a man naked from the waist down, showing a close up of his penis and his crossed legs.
Sakach said the device was operating on camera mode in his front pant pocket when it went missing. He added that Lepp suspects it was taken as he was jostled by protesters outside the Dixon Rd. convention centre where the Tories met for the party’s weekend convention.
Sakach said he didn’t know if police were called about the stolen BlackBerry.
“It was an unfortunate circumstance,” Sakach said on Sunday. “This is pretty low and juvenile and we don’t believe it is politically motivated.”
Lepp, a Niagara-on-the-Lake farmer and businessman, put the boots last November to Sandy Annunziata, a former Fort Erie town councillor and Canadian Football League all-star, in a battle to become the Tory candidate in the provincial riding of Niagara Falls for October’s election.
His website credits him for organizing successful fundraisers for John Tory and
Tim Hudak.
Sakach said the image was first noticed by Lepp’s son, who administers the
Twitter account, and was immediately removed.
Lepp, who couldn’t be reached for comment, had been filing daily dispatches from the Tory convention to his more than 80 Twitter followers.
On Friday, he told followers “1500 people meeting in Toronto to support
Ontario working families to stop McGuintys tax and spend policy that is
killing Ontario Jobs.”
Lepp graduated from the University of Guelph in Agriculture Economics, and was responsible for more than 200 employees while serving as vice-president of the Vineland Growers’ Cooperative, the largest shipper of tender fruit in Ontario.
Lepp is credited with helping to restructure the sales and marketing of Ontario’s grape and tender fruit industry to provide a more stable livelihood for farmers.
The photo of a penis on Lepp’s Twitter account surfaced as Ontario
Conservatives vowed in Toronto to force high-risk sex offenders and other dangerous criminals to wear GPS monitoring bracelets.


This is pure lulz.
 

Pliablemoose

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My phone takes random pics of my wang and posts them on Twitter all the time, good to see it's just not a phenomenon that affects me....
 

yllus

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How long until we hear from the ten-years-younger female staffer who he took this picture to send to?

Also, he's now changed his story and says that the picture in question is not him.
 

lxskllr

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Am I stupid, or is this story BS? How does a camera take a picture of your pecker when it's in your pocket? I don't keep up with camera tech, but last I knew, you still needed light to capture an image.
 

ShawnD1

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Am I stupid, or is this story BS? How does a camera take a picture of your pecker when it's in your pocket? I don't keep up with camera tech, but last I knew, you still needed light to capture an image.

Even if you don't wear underwear, the camera would still need to see through the pocket as well :whiste:
 

Pliablemoose

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In the guy's defense he was jostled.

I mean crap when I'm jostled, I always take pictures of my wang and tweet it.
 

Barfo

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Am I stupid, or is this story BS? How does a camera take a picture of your pecker when it's in your pocket? I don't keep up with camera tech, but last I knew, you still needed light to capture an image.
New cellphones take pictures of their owners genitalia all the time, without their consent. They're called smartphones for a reason.

This guy should sue BlackBerry for developing evil technology...possibly the precursor of Skynet.
 
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silverpig

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The description of the photo and the description of how the photo was taken do not agree.
 

dpodblood

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Am I stupid, or is this story BS? How does a camera take a picture of your pecker when it's in your pocket? I don't keep up with camera tech, but last I knew, you still needed light to capture an image.

I agree. This Story makes no sense whatsoever...
 

Jeff7

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I guess that was the best excuse they could come up with on such short notice.

The "His Twitter account got hijacked" excuse would probably be better though, as opposed to the "Blackberries can see through multiple layers of cloth, take a reasonably clear image in extreme darkness, and then use Twitter by themselves" excuse.
I've got to think that something was running through Alan Sakach's mind as he was making that statement: "Think anyone'll buy it? Sure...sure they'll buy it."
 

dpodblood

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He must have some special designer pants with transparent pockets and interior lighting.
 

goog40

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Maybe he leaked it himself. 80 followers on Twitter before this, now he's up to 130. Apparently no one knows who he is, now at least he's getting his name out there. It worked out pretty well for Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.