Posted on 09/16/2006 11:38:31 PM PDT by Crazieman
Big Brother is shouting at you Last updated at 21:02pm on 16th September 2006
Big Brother is not only watching you - now he's barking orders too. Britain's first 'talking' CCTV cameras have arrived, publicly berating bad behaviour and shaming offenders into acting more responsibly.
The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late-night brawls - to send out a verbal warning: 'We are watching you'.
Middlesbrough has fitted loudspeakers on seven of its 158 cameras in an experiment already being hailed as a success. Jack Bonner, who manages the system, said: 'It is one hell of a deterrent. It's one thing to know that there are CCTV cameras about, but it's quite another when they loudly point out what you have just done wrong.
'Most people are so ashamed and embarrassed at being caught they quickly slink off without further trouble.
'There was one incident when two men started fighting outside a nightclub. One of the control room operators warned them over the loudspeakers and they looked up, startled, stopped fighting and scarpered in opposite directions.
'This isn't about keeping tabs on people, it's about making the streets safer for the law-abiding majority and helping to change the attitudes of those who cause trouble. It challenges unacceptable behaviour and makes people think twice.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Big Brother Is Watching You!
It seems 1984 came a few years later than Orwell anticipated.
(22 year later but who's counting?)
This is scary.
I'm glad I live in the country.
I'm also glad that I got to grow up in a better world than this one and got to know better people.
The 21st century is going to be a real booger and I hate it already.
"Stop it or I'll yell at you some more!"
Yep! Thank the Good Lord that at my age I won't have to put up with a whole lot of the 21st century.
P.S. That pic is directed at the spycams, not you.
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head"!'
(Can you say "Hamburger anyone"?)
I don't see anything wrong with this as long as each city can decide for itself whether or not to use these.
You are the dead!
Wait until they outfit each one with remote controlled microwave guns.
"Smith!" screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. "6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me."
A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
"There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look." She bent over again. "You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to," she added as she straightened herself up. "Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better," she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
-1984 (Chapter 3), by George Orwell
My sentiments exactly.
I always got a laugh from the NY Surveillance Camera Players
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html
Maybe everyone should just FLASH the cameras! And MOON them.
"This isn't about keeping tabs on people,,,"
Sure it is.
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