We’ll warn you in advance: This article may be NSFW.

The painter’s behavior certainly isn’t something you should be doing on a job site.

It all started when an older woman asked a painting contractor from her church to give her a quote for a paint job.

The first sign something was off was when the painting contractor pointed to the one of the cameras and asked, “What’s that for.”
The woman explained that she used the cameras to keep an eye on the house when she was at work.

Two days later, the church friend showed up to do the job. That’s when things got weird. Really weird.

The painting contractor was in the house for approximately nine minutes, during which he went around looking at the various cameras. He moved a ladder twice and placed a drop cloth over it to obscure the view.

When we next see him, the painter is barefoot. That’s strange enough on a jobsite.

Then he goes into the client’s bathroom and emerges naked from the waist down and pleasuring himself.

Yikes!

He proceeded to walk into every room of the house, staring straight into the cameras while doing his deed.

The client watched the video later and was stunned by what she witnessed. She contacted her local police department in New Bedford, Mass. and a detective brought the painter in for questioning.

During the interrogation, the painting contractor confessed. “I thought I was by myself,” he offered.

Believe it or not, that argument won the day.

Under Massachusetts law, the victim must be physically present in order to be “alarmed and shocked.” In this case, the victim only got “alarmed and shocked” later, when she reviewed the camera footage.

With that in mind, a state appeals court rejected the Bristol County District Attorney’s theory that the cameras constituted a “virtual presence,” which means the defendant was indeed “openly” performing a lewd act.

The painter’s actions may have been gross, but apparently, it’s not Illegal in Massachusetts.