The creep who thought it would be a good idea to use the city’s free Wi-Fi kiosk as a place to masturbate has been arrested for public lewdness, police said Tuesday.
Loberc Pocolo, 41, was seen sitting at the LinkNYC kiosk at the corner of 31st Street and 3rd Avenue early Sunday morning “masturbating in open view of the public,” police said. He was nabbed the following evening and has been charged with public lewdness and exposure of a person.
The Post learned about the incident when the witness posted about it on Facebook.
“I have noticed this kind of thing at charging stations, before, but just not this incredibly out in the open at a time when people were out,” Stephanie Pedersen posted on a neighborhood Facebook group.
She returned to the corner to take a few photos of the man, whom she described as “enthusiastically humping” the charging station.
The barefoot pervert was wearing a light blue T-shirt along with a long black plastic vest he fashioned out of a tarp — but he didn’t use his layered outfit to hide his private parts.
One photo shows the bum sitting on a bucket, leaning back with a grin on his face as he fondles his genitals with the screen from the charging station lit up in front of him.
Pedersen originally had trouble getting cops to the scene, writing on a Facebook post that there wasn’t much cops could do unless she wanted to file a police report.
“Police operator said there was nothing they could do unless it was actually happening (when police got there),” she griped as she asked fellow community members if there was anything she could do.
Cops finally took action the next day and arrested the grinning masturbator. He’s awaiting arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court.