Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Smile, you're on candid camera! Cameras near future mosque site removed. ATF asked for use of poles.


A sure-'nuff offical ATF surveillance camera.

Link.

"It was the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) that asked for those cameras to be put up," Chris Jones, a vice president for the utility, said. "When the ATF comes calling, you try to accommodate the request. The ATF are the ones who installed the cameras, and they actually removed them themselves."

10 comments:

Alvie D. Zane said...

Story link?

Anonymous said...

Too bad the cameras came down. They would have been fine targets for mischief making.

Similar to the traffic cameras in the-now-not-so-Great Britain.

B Woodman
III-per

Anonymous said...

Real life - just like fiction.

I wrote a fiction piece with a web cam in a transformer box up an electric pole!

It can work both ways, how often do transformer boxes get opened?

On a different note, why do moslem's requests get a response while the rest of us get trampled? Equality before the law and all that?

Anonymous said...

One other point about surveillence cameras.

The ones in London (most cameras in the World) get about 1 conviction / 100,000 cameras/year

There's just far to much data to ever analyse, and when a known crime is checked, the criminals are usually wearing hoodies, baseball caps, baggy trousers, and either padded jackets or they're of heavy build, the footage is of sooo much use...

They'll catch you for putting your trash out on the wrong day, or for your dog shiting on the side walk, but they won't get anyone with even below average intelligence, who's planning to do wrong.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone yet salted the site with the ground up slurry of pig remains from the butcher?

Anonymous said...

For ANON at 5:47, don't forget to include the head of the pig so the Islams will know where the slime came from.

Mark Matis said...

For Anonymous at 8:32 AM:

You blew it, man! Now they're gonna know who is responsible when Holder's head shows up there.

Anonymous said...

A shotgun loaded with birdshot is usually sufficient to render such cameras inoperable. Presumably, one would approach from a direction the camera is not pointed.

Anonymous said...

Presumably, one would approach from a direction the camera is not pointed.

You'd be surprised!

Apparently the data on the hard drive in a Gatso speed camera will sometimes survive the burning, even when the optics and circuitry are damaged beyond repair.

Some folk have been stupid enough to park with their licence plate in view of the camera's dying flash, or even have it take their portrait for them, while they're serving the community.

Anonymous said...

"Some folk have been stupid enough to park with their licence plate in view of the camera's dying flash, or even have it take their portrait for them, while they're serving the community."

There just ain't no fixing "stupid".