Big Brother is Shouting At You

[2nd_Amendment]

I'm sticking this under US Politics because what happens in England(you know, that place where Great Britian used to be) all too often shows up somewhere on one of our coasts and then spreads like leprosy. I am also going to give the obligatory and almost hoary mention of Orwell: He was just a few years off...



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...



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405477&in_page_id=1770

[BuckeyeMike]

This is the kind of shit that gets our politicians...shall we say.....moist?
Especially assholes like The Bitch and her ilk!

[Pennville_Bill]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/Pennville_Bill/Other%20Stuff/BigBrother.jpg

[Aethariel]

Good! I'd be thrilled to have a system like that installed in the city here.

[2nd_Amendment]

*pinches bridge of nose*

Over at TFL I said I would post this article around various places just so I could depress myself with the replies of support it would bring. I had THOUGHT I was being facetious...

[gnome]

Yecch. Talk about a nanny state... complete with scolding voice.

[DoctorDoom]

One of these days, a large sign will appear way up on the BT Tower.

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[Rhino]

Coming to a British bookstore near you! 1001 Ways to Flip Off a Surveillance Camera!

[DesertFox]

They were doing this on trains in Caracas when I was there in 1987.

[gnome]

I would love to see someone standing there arguing with the loudspeaker, though :)

[Maggie_T]

I'm sticking this under US Politics because what happens in England(you know, that place where Great Britian used to be)

Yeah. I call it Used-To-Be-Great Britain (and soon-to-become Britainistan).

Sheesh, how the mighty have fallen.

[DesertFox]

This present stupidity will turn around, my friends.

[2nd_Amendment]

From your lips to God's ears.

[Beowulf]

Good! I'd be thrilled to have a system like that installed in the city here.
No doubt!:rolleyes: If you like it so much, move there!

Sounds just like George Orwell's book, 1984.

[Maggie_T]

This present stupidity will turn around, my friends.


Fox, me darlin', liberals NEVER, EVER, learn. We thought they'd learn after 9/11, too. Need I go on?

No, liberals will continue to applaud this kind of outrage. And if it doesn't work, they'll blame Bush. Simple.

[DesertFox]

Liberals will have nothing whatever to do with turning it around. They never have and never will.

[Rhino]

Liberals will have nothing whatever to do with turning it around. They never have and never will.They only turn around when they need to flip-flop on a political position.

[BarkleUSA]

Reminds me of the future world depicted in Demolition Man. The police were not allowed to use any force and citizens that cursed were automatically issued tickets.

The Islamofascists in the UK are playing the Wesley Snipes role.

[DoctorDoom]

Spartan? John Spartan? Oh shit! They let anybody into this century.
-- Simon Phoenix