If You Must Make A Hidden Camera, Don't Make It Look Like Garbage
from the just-a-suggestion dept
Here's one for the "didn't quite think that through, did you" files. Gizmodo points us to the news that British authorities trying to prevent illegal trash dumping put a hidden camera at a popular dumping site. The only problem was that they disguised the hidden camera (which cost somewhere around $20,000 -- I have no clue why it cost so much) as a trash bag, and neglected to tell the folks in charge of cleaning up the site. So, yes, they threw out the hidden camera. Whoops.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Camera Cost
It needs some pretty good batteries to run that long, and smaller lighter batteries cost a lot more.
Plus you have to add the government tax on it. You pretty much just double the price of it, and half of it is just tax dollars being spent elsewhere, that is how the government transfers funds between departments after an approved budget, so it looks good on paper but the money is still really just going to the war.
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Re: Camera Cost
last time i checked we used pounds :P
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Facts?
"The council did not disclose how much the camera cost, but similar systems involving a minature video camera cost between £7,000 and £10,000."
So the "estimate" was $14k-$20k, the real cost isn't known.
Still it wouldn't be so funny and prove a political point if the camera only cost £150!
Next.
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Just my two pennies
I think this would pretty much stop people from dumping anything there. If not, then they have problems other than dumping trash inappropriately :) LOL
I am pretty sure the BIG OLD Ugly cameras are cheaper too :)
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Really?
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They should'a...
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