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By
Mildred Armah
A popular bar in central Auckland has been attract- ing attention for all the wrong rea- sons after bar- goers noticed people outside the venue
could see into the female toilets.
In a video shared to the social
media
platform TikTok, multiple women could be seen using the toilets at the newly opened and rebranded Headquarters, owned by contro- versial business- man and former Auckland mayoral candidate Leo Molloy .
“We went to the new O’Hagan’s
called
HQ, and the female toilet is see-through from the outside. Just be careful ladies,” the TikTok post read.
Hundreds of users took to the comment section of the post to voice their out- rage.
“This is gross.
They
need to frost those windows ASAP,” one com- ment read.
Another user said: “That’s so messed up and unsafe. I’m actu- ally disgusted.”
When Stuff called, Molloy said it was a “minor” design fault and the film would be placed
across the win- dows on Tuesday afternoon.
“I went down there at 2.30 in the morning after I read the com- plaint, and you can't see any- thing. You can see shoulders and head but not when they’re using the loo,” he said.
“The loo faces the opposite direction. The person would have to straddle the loo and look in the opposite direction to be seen. It doesn't bother me too much, but we’ll film it [put film over the windows] out of courtesy.”
Molloy closed the inner-city estab- lishment on May 21 last year, a day before he offi- cially entered the running for
Auckland mayor.
The bar was then reopened in late January, at the old O’Hagan’s Irish Pub on Customs St West with the promise it would, “revolu- tionise the city’s Viaduct scene”.
A spokesperson for the office of the privacy com- missioner said it was looking into the matter.
“If anyone who was at Headquarters would like to pro- vide information to us about this matter, you can contact our
office here. If your privacy has been harmed, you may wish to make a formal complaint,” the spokesperson said.
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