Hey, Bob, I think she's hiding aces down there

Embrace the irony:

Caesars Atlantic City yesterday was gobsmacked with an $80,000 fine because two members of its surveillance staff were caught using the casino's overhead security cameras to record compromising views of female patrons wearing low-cut blouses and other "revealing clothing."

I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, justifying what these two clowns did. Playing "Peeping Tom" is juvenile at best, and immoral, intrusive, and violating at worst.

But let's think this through.

Casinos have traded on the appeal of "revealing clothing" — and the lack thereof — since time immemorial. Is anyone surprised that they might attract — even promote — a culture that would foster behavior such as that being rebuked here? What a shock.

Also, a reasonable person would suppose that the purpose of wearing "revealing clothing" is to...umm...reveal. Can you justly complain that someone read your diary if you left it open on the seat of a city bus, or publish its contents in the New York Times?

Here's an oddity: Caesars fired both the two peepers and the two female coworkers who ratted them out. How does that work? Certain behavior is punishable by termination, including blowing the whistle on behavior that's punishable by termination? You can't have it both ways, Caesars.

And finally, how long do you suppose it will be before those surveillance tapes are downloadable on the Internet somewhere?