Posted on 11/03/2006 11:27:42 AM PST by flutters
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- If you're on the computer and have time on your hands, Texas officials say you could do them a favor. They'd like you to check out a site with live images of the Mexican border, and report any signs of illegal aliens or drug crimes.
You'll have to sign up for a user account at Texas Border Watch-dot-com. Once you do, you can take a look at the views from eight cameras. If anything doesn't look right, you can e-mail authorities.
Texas homeland security officials expect to eventually have at least 70 cameras up, some of them with zoom lenses.
Some civil rights groups are complaining, but Governor Rick Perry says the "virtual border watch" program is needed to cut down on illegal activity.
Need to turn off pop-up blockers to view cameras.
prevent another illegal tax burden bump
Since when is illegally crossing the border a frigging civil right? They should have remotely operated machine guns. (This is merely a defensive tool suggestion, I am not advocating violence.)
Agree......but MY MGs wouldn't be remotely operated....they'd be fully automated to shoot anything bigger than an armadillo.
I wouldn't ever want our government to operate autonomous weapons.
I remember sitting in front of the computer, watching the live cams in Baghdad when we knew the war was gonna start any minute. I had the volume turned up all the way, listening to a little windchime, when suddenly "KA BLAM!!!!" It was so loud I nearly fell out of my chair!
I love live cams...watching the Texas border sounds like fun.
No, then you'd kill some actual worthwhile non-human wildlife (no sarcasm intended). Make it automatic targeting, but require remote human triggering, and I'll be happy.
Example: http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5539097&nav=menu216_3
I have no objection to jaguars wandering around the desert - after all, they were here first, and besides, if we get enough of them, they can eat illegal border crossers and save us the cost of ammo.
Tried it on both IE7 and Firefox. Not working
LOL!!!
camera 7 kinda works now
Thanks for providing a hot link. I wanted to get this posted but didn't have time to check the site first.
Cordially,
I'm trying it now.
This info from the actual website:
Welcome
As part of the Virtual Neighborhood Border Watch Program, the State of Texas has been testing video surveillance cameras in different environments along the 1240 miles of Texas/Mexico border using the internet to transmit the images. The last stage of the test is to stress the system by providing public access to eight surveillance cameras.
Thank you for helping test this important capability.
To be part of the program you will need to have a user account. To get a user account click in the blue box on the right side of the screen.
NOTICE: You must turn off any pop-up blockers for this site. You may be asked to update your computer with software that allows you to view the video.
Watching the border is great.
I think they should have a contest - report the most illegals in a given month and get free tickets to the superbowl.
Or report 5-10 illegals which result in apprehensions and get a free pass on your next State of Texas speeding ticket.
Or how about for every illegal alien you turn in which results in a deportation your Property tax bill is decreased by 1% on the next years taxes.
If people have a financial interest in keeping Texas free of free-loading illegals then I bet the State could be cleared in a matter of months!
It wants me to install additional software...grrrr
My thoughts exactly. It could have been a boat load full of Hezbullah for all I know
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