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It happened a couple of weeks ago but it's the story that just keeps coming. Until now I've resisted the urge to lay bare the details.

Shame two Christchurch insurance office staff also didn't resist the urge to lay bare their details.

However after considerable peer pressure, I have succumbed to demand, as it seems some of you do, and decided this matter needs bring to a head.

This couple must be under enormous stress right now. Filming it might have seemed like a lark when you're half-cut in the Carlton, but posting it publicly will have caused life-long impact on these two people.

We are haunted by the events that followed the royal baby prank, when the nurse who answered a hoax call from a radio station, took her own life. Let's hope everyone can keep this in perspective.

So to avoid identification, we'll call them Rodney and Emily. We have selected these names at random. It is remotely possible that Rodney misheard an instruction barked from his boss regarding a missing fax from Emily: 'Rod, facsimile! On my desk, before the morning.”

The bottom line
Now let us deal with the moral dilemma. Here's the bottom line: The actions of voyeurs watching from the pub was questionable, but the filming and publishing, that was a step too far.

It's one thing to inadvertently catch a glimpse of something not intended for view; it's crossing the line to keep watching; and a bridge too far to video it, and in my opinion, breaking all codes of decency and humanity to share it worldwide on social media.

Would I have done it? Of course not. Spreading that sort of marginally questionable content and private moments of a couple, unaware of the outside attention, on social media is despicable. No, I would have shared it worldwide on SunLive.

Recently, a man was convicted of making an intimate recording without the person's knowledge. Is there a difference between that sleazy act, and the pack mentality voyeurism at the Carlton pub that night?

Life in Christchurch must be pretty boring if that's the best entertainment in town. You never hear of these bizarre things making the news in Tauranga. The raunchiest thing we've had lately is Hairy Mclary statue going doggy style with Muffin Mclay.

However, the damage is done. We can only wonder at the state of mind of the unfortunate lovers and hope they can swiftly move on and get their lives back into some sort of order and decency.

Columns such as this, will not help. However, it's not in this column's brief to actually help. We are here to poke fun. And let's be clear: that is all that will be poked.

Skills and attributes
We wonder if they are updating their CVs, in the prospect of having to find a new job. What sort of lessons will they have learnt? What particular new skills could be listed on a CV, after this incident?

• Will bend over backward to ensure team targets are met.

• Ability to drop anything to assist fellow staff members to achieve pressing needs.

• Experienced in express deposits and emergency withdrawals.

• Selfless ability to take one for the team.

• Adaptable and flexible, willing to go the hard yards after-hours.

Marketing opportunity
And when can we expect clever companies to recognise the marketing potential here.

A Tui billboard is already doing the rounds: ‘No one can see; it's dark outside'.

What about the window cleaners, who maintained the glass in such good condition, that the whole sordid scene was able to be viewed and captured from across the road? Surely they should be boasting of their prowess.

‘Windows so clean, it's just like being there.'

‘Glass with class and a touch of ass.'

An enterprising curtain company could draw some mileage here. ‘Curtains from us, before you go blind.'

Someone should also point out the easy-clean benefits of Melteca top surfaces, or maybe the forestry industry should cash in on the appeal of polished wood's subtle texture and warmth against the skin.

Surely it won't be long before the Marsh Ltd's photocopier appears for sale as a novelty on TradeMe. Or various collection's of Emily's undergarments. (If this incident had occurred in Tauranga, we'd have bits of clothing preserved in storage in our museum collection, alongside the pink dress, as an item of historical significance).

Desk makers should surely be crowing about the strength and resilience of their furniture; able to take a pounding, day and night.

‘Screwed together with passion, so you can screw together with passion.'

Parting shot:
For years women in business have been concerned about the effect of the glass ceiling. Turns out, they should pay more attention to the glass walls.