Hands
Life lesson: if you’re running in an event and you spot a reporter doing a live bit, and you’re a man and the reporter’s a woman, don’t take the opportunity to slap her bum on the way, because the thing is, since she is a reporter doing a live bit, you will be on camera.
A Georgia man who was videotaped slapping a female reporter’s bottom on live TV was arrested on Friday on a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery.
A Savannah police spokeswoman, Bianca Johnson, confirmed that Thomas Callaway, 43, of Statesboro was charged in connection with the incident that occurred while WSAV-TV reporter Alex Bozarjian was broadcasting live as runners streamed past her on a prominent bridge in the coastal city.
Bozarjian tweeted the footage last weekend. You can see her shock when it happens, right there on camera. Remember, bum-slappers: not on camera!
Video from Bozarjian’s live broadcast last Saturday posted online showed one of the passing runners appearing to swat her from behind. The video shows the stunned woman stop talking for a moment and stare. The clip had been viewed more than 11 million times on Twitter by Friday.
The video also shows the guy who did it as he approaches, so his face is there for all to see. Learn a lesson from this, bum-slappers.
Who is Thomas Callaway? He’s a “youth minister.” Of course he is.
Calloway gave a lukewarm apology for the press, but I don’t recall seeing anything about his trying to contact Bozarjian to apologize personally. If he’d done so, it’s possible the lawsuit wouldn’t have been filed. By not doing so, he’s objectifying the reporter once again.
Or off cameras, or when nobody’s looking, or in Your wildest dreams, or under any circumstance what so ever. In fact, if You are the kind of person to which the word “bum-slapper” applies, You would almost certainly benefit from suicide. And I really do mean it except the “almost” part.
Of course he has posted a passive-voice notpology about how mistakes were passively made when she was passively “touched” on the “back” in an incident involving a hand, which might or might not be connected to his arm, as opposed to her being deliberately slapped on the arse by his hand, which is what happened. And happened because he thought she was his to use. And because he thought he’d get away with it, because you can grab them by the pussy.
Of course the part of the not-pology about how he is a loving husband and father is not in the passive voice. That part is very clear about how it’s him doing the loving and fathering. “Children were fathered” but “arses weren’t deliberately slapped, by [him]”, apparently.
Of course his lawyers are saying that he didn’t intend to commit an illegal act despite the fact that he committed an illegal act which he fully intended to do. And of course, no mention is made of whether what he did was wrong, just whether or not he intended to do something illegal, which he did.
Of course a lot of people have surfaced to tut at his being “doxxed”, as it is being framed. In a different universe where I wasn’t me I still wouldn’t have had even a tiny speck of sympathy about the doxxing, even if he had come forward without being caught to admit what he had done and apologise in a genuine fashion. Which he didn’t. He waited until someone tracked him down (he was wearing a number and it was on TV) and then communicated his ‘apology’ via his lawyers.
Name and shame.
Maybe I should indulge the fantasies I’ve been entertaining for the last 41 years of my adult life and start slapping men’s asses that I see on the street. Do you know how many men’s asses I’ve fantasized about slapping? I wish I could slap those asses with impunity, but I can’t. I’m gay, and most men wouldn’t take kindly to me slapping their asses on the street. Sad.
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He apologized in a TV interview:
“I did not mean to do this” ruins it, because that is a lie. And telling someone whose butt you touched without their consent that they’re “a great, great asset” is certainly an unfortunate choice of words.
“Alex, you’re a great great great great asset sorry what were we talking about?”