Let’s go to the tape: Five surreal surveillance moments
Last month, an Arizona court officer was busted snooping in the files of a defense attorney while she was defending her client. Officer Adam Stoddard said he saw four words that caught his attention — “going to,” “steal,” and “money” — so he went ahead and took those documents off the attorney’s desk behind her back while she spoke to the judge.
That’s not kosher. The judge ruled today that the officer was in contempt of court and he will have to apologize. UPDATE (3:15 p.m.): Stoddard’s refusing to apologize, reports Nick Martin at Heat City.
How’d he get caught? The moment was captured by the court’s security cameras. Check out the 00:43 mark and 1:32 marks:
Sometimes surveillance cameras play unexpected roles. Here are four other surprising uses of surveillance cameras this year.
4. Security cameras get police officers across the pond into trouble too:
[Police officer] Peter Cokell, 34, was found guilty of theft after he was caught on CCTV shoplifting from the store he was being paid to protect.
The damning footage, which was shown to magistrates in his trial, shows him stealing two PlayStation 3 games and then taking them to the rear of the shop in his police hat.
3. In Los Angeles, Sheppard Mullin used its surveillance cameras to discover who was tinkling on the toilet seats. The firm’s executive director sent out the following e-mail:
A few weeks ago, someone urinated on the floor and two of the toilet seats in women’s room on the 43rd Floor. I reviewed the security tapes and interviewed those entering the restroom over the two hour stretch preceding the first report of the incident. Unfortunately, each person interviewed recalled seeing the mess but simply elected to use a clean toilet and did not report what they had seen.
Good to know your trips to the bathroom are being tracked.
2. Google’s Street View has created a kind of haphazard global surveillance system. These images of a Dutch fire truck in a rush were captured by Jalopnik:
Google later censored those photos.
1. And my personal favorite: a crazy jiu-jitsu street fight in a Manhattan lobby, and the building’s residents walking by at the 1:10 mark as if it’s no big deal:
If you have favorite surveillance moments, post them in the comments or send them my way at kashhill@trueslant.com.
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Can’t wait until there’s a surveillance video version of Lamebook, where every embarrassing public incident is posted on the web~
That would bring an end to my productivity on the Internet.
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