The Stealthing craze: have you been caught?

A new craze is sweeping social networking sites involving being photographed behind a person in a mock sexual act – without them noticing.

Over 12,000 people have signed up to Facebook groups about ‘stealthing’or ‘stealth bumming’: a new craze in which unassuming people become the victims of web provoked boredom.

One Facebook group has over 12,000 members and as many photographs of people playing the stealthing game. In one photograph a policeman is even made a target as a girl on a night out strikes a pose behind him.

In bars, at work, even at school, it seems nobody is safe. From students to soldiers, everybody seems to be jumping on the stealthing wagon.

Originating in lads magazines like Zoo and Nuts, the game is seemingly all a bit of fun, but watch out – if a camera flashes behind you, you may just have become the butt of the joke.

The rules of the game are simple, situations must not be set up, there must not be contact with the other person, and they must not catch you doing it. It’s like ninja 101 for sex pests.