Either someone wasn’t thinking when this building was designed or someone was thinking but their mind was in the gutter.
A recently opened $105 million courthouse opened in Franklin County, Ohio has a problem with its glass staircase — it’s made of… glass. It didn’t take long for the women frequenting the courthouse to complain about how the transparent staircase exposed, well, pretty much everything, if they happened to be wearing a skirt or dress.
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A security guard has even taken to warning women about to embark on a journey up the stairs that “they are subject to being viewed from underneath.” Attorney Lori Johnson is not only concerned about the people who could catch a glimpse up her skirt should she be on the staircase but those who might carry a camera-phone and snap a photo. “The next thing you know, you’re on the internet,” Johnson said. “It sounds like a lawsuit in the making.”
Though, NewsFeed supposes that if anyone was going to win such a lawsuit, a building’s worth of women lawyers and judges would be the ladies to go to. (via CNN)
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