A carpet cleaner has been fired and is facing criminal charges after he was caught doing an indecent act in a TV show's hidden-camera sting.
The unnamed cleaner was filmed by TV3's Target programme rifling through the drawers of a customer - who was a Target actress - and repeatedly touching and sniffing multiple pairs of the woman's underwear he found in her laundry basket.
In scenes broadcast last night, he walked from room to room, taking soap from the bathroom, looking at personal items in a spare room and turning on the computer in the living room and connecting it to the internet.
But what happened next shocked even Target. The man knelt in front of the computer and began masturbating into underwear which he then returned to the laundry basket.
He returned twice more to the computer screen and continued performing "an indecent act" until he was apparently spooked by something and quickly got up. Target said they gave the footage to police because of the "extreme nature of his behaviour".
The man's employer fired him immediately.
Police have charged the man with burglary and wilfully accessing a computer, but more charges could follow after tests are carried out on the underwear and the computer. (NZ Herald)
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