Exclusive: Couple cautioned after being caught having sex at Croydon tram stop
EXCLUSIVE
By Anna Edwards
IT might not look like the most romantic place in the world - but for two lovebirds Wandle Park tram stop was the perfect place for a spot of passion.
As the moonlight shone down, the couple's lust became too strong for them to contain - and they ended up having sex beside the track.
Unfortunately for them, their love-making was caught on camera by a stunned CCTV operator.
A police source told the Advertiser: "The CCTV operator called the police and the British Transport Police.
"He was looking at the screens and saw the pair, and told them to stop over the PA.
"But it's possible they were in the throes of passion, and didn't notice they were being told off."
With the couple continuing their steamy clinch rather than heeding the request to stop the controller called for back up.
Police officers turned up at the tram stop in Waddon, along with British Transport Police officers, to interrupt their intimate moment - and discovered that the woman was 29 and her randy partner was 17.
BTP officers arrested the pair, and they were given a slap on the wrist for their very public liaison at about 11.30pm on August 13.
The police source said: "They were arrested and given a talking to and a caution.
"I don't think they'll be trying that again anytime soon."
The couple aren't the first pair to be caught out having sex in less than private surroundings.
This month two council workers who were meant to be working on a community cohesion project – spent 20 minutes working on something else in their first floor office.
The unlucky duo, working at Oldham Council, were unaware that a crowd of voyeurs were looking through a window and cheering them on.
Last week a couple in Brighton opted for an even more public place to have sex - a phone booth.
The pair spent 40 minutes in full view of passing traffic and pedestrians in Brighton.
And in April 2007 a French couple were busted having sex in a bank by a bunch of teenagers who filmed them on their camera phones.
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by Vice-Commander Wing-Nutt, Croydon (where's my airport?)
Friday, August 29 2008, 10:29AM
“Naughty but nice - hasn't this been going on since the system started up 10 years back? I hear they got up to all sorts before they fitted on-board CCTV. Lusty lady with a toyboy? One of those Wish I Was 17 Again moments, enough to get any trooper Standing II Attention I can tell you...”
by Mr Stabby, Running
Monday, August 25 2008, 10:02AM
“@Jen, we're all rather people were getting some rather than stabbing someone, but Mark Dixie tries to combine the two and its too much. It really is safer under cctv with the control room beating themselves off until they are spent”
by Dangerous dave, On the loose
Monday, August 25 2008, 9:59AM
“I know personally how dangerous this can be after doing the same thing by the tram tracks in coombe lane, when a tram passed by the wing mirror slapped me on the back side at 40mph. I almost couldn't finish the job but then I had paid for the hour so she wasn't going home early”
by Jovial Jim, Waddon
Sunday, August 24 2008, 7:54PM
“I heard that he was shouting out tram numbers at the height of his passion. ;-)”
by Julian, Morden Road
Sunday, August 24 2008, 5:24PM
“I had always thought that of all the places to have sex Wandle Park tram stop would be my favourite, although with the park next door I would probably bottle it and just have sex in the boring park if the opportunity arose.”
by peterg22, Not Croydon
Sunday, August 24 2008, 4:44PM
“@mark smith, purley
Yeah, but at least the rails aren't electrified..”
by Tram Driver, CR0
Saturday, August 23 2008, 7:44PM
“This woman was spotted on a tram approaching wandle park asking them for sex, after carrying out a sex act on one man, she left the tram with the 17yr old man who is due to fly to iraq in 2 weeks with the army, when the police arrived she told them she had previoulsy made up a rape complaint, some couple just a sex starved teen and a deranged woman!”
by joe davis, south croydon
Friday, August 22 2008, 4:32PM
“Jen, do you fancy some bedroom action in a fun place with me??”
by Jen, Croydon
Friday, August 22 2008, 3:26PM
“Hilarious, rather they do that then go round causing trouble. Maybe if we all got a bit more bedroom action in fun places we would be a bit happier and not go round stabbing people, well not me but you know these horrible little "yoots" :)”
by Anon, Having a laugh
Friday, August 22 2008, 11:41AM
“free porn for the guys that work for CCTV operators at tramlink. how long did it take the operator, before he said stop lol...had a good look first i bet..”