Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
“holding the camera at their side, between their chest and waist....”
**** RED ALERT ****
Were they bearded and Middle-eastern looking?
Well, since the Amish don’t believe in the use of electricity, we can rule them out. Unless it is one of those hand cranked video cameras. But my experience with those is that the picture is so shaky as to be useless.
Two men... well, that narrows it down.
They have a witness’ photo of the perps. I can’t believe the metro servalience cameras don’t have them on tape.
And yet, they are on the look out for “two men.”
First, it's common to video public places. It may be a school project or something anyway.
Second, holding the camera inconspicuously is necessary if your goal is to get candid footage.
Third, holding the camera at stomach level is very common. It's intended to get a different, more dramatic point of view than holding the camera at eye-level.
Finally, what possible useful information can be gathered in a public place with video that could not be gathered just by observing the area or with a still camera?
fyi
They were just unicorn ghosts. The lighting in subways creates those optical illusions.
freekitty: "Most corporations have a very strict rule about taking pictures in front of their buildings. Employees can’t do it either. The Middle Easterners have been caught in buildings taking pictures of hallways and exit doors; etc. They pretend like they aren’t doing it by placing the cameras waist-high."
Mentioned in this alert: An internal memo says the individuals were "attempting to videotape inconspicuously, by holding the camera at their side, between their chest and waist." Metro was alerted by a rider who took a picture of the men last week while they were sitting on the train.
