Faulty zipper - criminal act?

Yesterday I was wearing a pair of grey trousers that have a zipper which tends to work itself open if left unchecked. I'm not sure why the zipper does that.

I was in the queue for coffee at work, and facing away towards the seating area staring absent-mindedly into the middle distance. Following a couple of years of ownership of these trousers, it has become second nature to periodically reach down and rectify the zipper.

So without even consciously deciding to move my arm, it had grasped the zipper and pulled it up. Then I had a moment of self-awareness and realised that a woman seated at a table about 20 feet away was partially scowling at me. I am guessing that from her position, it looked like I had grabbed my crotch for no good reason whilst facing her directly!

No further action was taken, I got my coffee and returned to my desk. But I projected a 'worst case' scenario outcome, and found it possible to contemplate that I could have had a complaint levelled against me for sexual harrassment.

So the conclusion of this blog is as follows: there are some crimes for which it seems possible to argue that intent or negligence needs to be proved in order for the crime to have occurred, but I suspect that this is not a universal view.

Put another way - do you think I was actually sexually harrassing that woman, notwithstanding the fact that I didn't intend to?