I Googled news stories for the phrase "Just asking for it"

Results:

• ...We know it's never appropriate to vandalize someone else's property, but aren't you just asking for it when you install a 12-foot inflatable snow globe on your...


• ...Occasionally it happens because the noun already had a verb embedded in it: we’ve mailed letters for long enough that e-mail was just asking for it, and what else would you call the act of instant messaging someone other than, well, instant messaging them?


• ...your purse, or wallet, or your credit card in the glove box or your checkbook, and we tell people do not do that, you're just asking for it," Landgraf said...


• ..."Make sure the heat isn't being forced out. Otherwise you're just asking for it," said Mantey, a Yakima plumber for more than 30 years...


• ...bug-killing temperature. You're just asking for it. You should always cook dressing separately from the bird. The bird's cavity...


• ...carolers showed up at the door demanding a bowl and some booze. There was no cooling the figgy pudding on the windowsill; that was just asking for it...

But the most intriguing use of this phrase was in a news article from South Africa entitled "Sniffing Tony Leon's panties".

• ...lingerie. I mean, hanging your panties up in Bishop Lavis, that's just asking for it. Maybe they thought it was Bishop's Court? Tsk...

Unfortunately that article goes to a dead link.