Source – There’s a new iPhone craze on the subway, and it’s not the latest Candy Crush update.
New York women have discovered that creepy men are using the iPhone AirDrop app to send them photos of their privates while on the same train.
Since more straphangers using the MTA are carrying advanced iPhones and awareness of the AirDrop app has increased, local straphangers have started noticing a troubling trend first reported in London in 2015.
Britta Carlson, 28, was riding the uptown 6 train to a concert on July 27 when a mysterious message popped up on her smartphone.
“iPhone 1 would like to share a note with you,” read the note sent at 6:51 p.m. She hit “Accept” and was horrified by what she saw. “It was just a huge close-up picture of a disgusting penis,” said Carlson, of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The message was titled “Straw” and was sent by an anonymous stranger.
“It really felt like someone had actually just flashed me.”
Carlson clutched the phone to her chest and frantically scanned the subway car for the pervert but couldn’t place him.
In order for pervs to send lewd photos, iPhone owners must have their AirDrop setting on “Everyone,” instead of “Contacts Only” or “Receiving Off.”
Sneaky business and hard to not laugh. There you are minding your own business on the Q train and the someone sends a steamy pile of a dick to your phone. depending on the kind of person you are it’s probably not welcome. Guys are different. If a rash of females sends pics of their boobs to your phone as a joke, there’s no way you call a cyber crime unit to find the perp who sent them. You save that picture and show your friends or use it for motivation in a private moment.
Guys are also different in the fact we do this shit. Girls do not although we wished they would.
Whatever happened to introducing yourself to someone? “Hi My Name Is……..” is far more palatable to a young woman you find attractive then air dropping your dink onto her phone.
Trust me.
