CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers

An anonymous reader writes, "Big Brother is another step closer in the UK where the ever ubiquitous CCTV cameras are being fitted with loudspeakers so that camera operators who spot activities deemed 'anti-social' can berate the citizens below. In January 2004 there were more than 4,285,000 CCTV cameras in the UK (roughly 1 for every 4 households). No data about the number of CCTV cameras now in use in the UK is available."

Comments

The error was so ironic

[mukund]

Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

interesting...

[aftershockbtc]

Can they play the 1812 overture?

Re:interesting...

[parasonic]

Can they play the 1812 overture?

Please add 172 to that number. We are only ten years behind them in the US.

Now hear this...

[Anonymous Coward]

Billy, this is your mother! I see you in that alley young man! You get that tongue of yours out of that girl's mouth right now or you're in big trouble! That is all.

In soviet russia

[Mortirer]

In soviet Russia, you don't tell the government what to do, it tells YOU! Oh....wait....crap

BYOB

[Anonymous Coward]

Group of guys are out hanging about, drinking some beer when suddenly over the speakers they hear, "Warning - Your behaviour is being monitored by CCTV. It is being recorded and the police are attending."

One of the guys looks up and says, "Sure. No problem. But bring your own beer."

Oh, the spoiled dreams...

[tod_miller]

"Come on now, that enough of that you two, get a room! And young lady, cover up a bit!"

I retrained myself from imagining what a seedy operator might say but 'go on, give her one for us lot, we are watching'

or, the fun, shouting out 'give me your wallet', or 'I am watching you, yes... muahaha... you'. Or basic wolf whistling and 'nice tits love'.

Bastards. Luckily I got all the deviant behaviour out of my system before I started dosing.

Not without incident.

*slash* applies for a job as a camera operator

Re:nothing wrong

[enharmonix]

We'll see: this will be interesting to watch whatever happens.

Coming this fall to BBC 4.

Re:Where do they get figures from

[keot]

My hometown of 35,000 recently got CCTV installed. I don't think that anywhere in the UK will be CCTV-free in a few years.

I suppose once they've install the loudspeakers, taunting the cameras will be a much more entertaining exercise.

Not 1984, more like...

[Anonymous Coward]

... Demolition Man

<cash machine swallows my cash>

Me: Fucking piece of shit!
CCTV: Eurgh! You have been fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code.
Me: What the f-
CCTV: Eurgh! You have been fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code.
Me: Goddamnit!
CCTV: Eurgh! You have been fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code.

Oblig. Robin Williams Quote

[hahiss]

"Stop, or I'll yell stop again!"

Re:Numbers

[peterpi]

Number of rubbish bags stolen from the front of my house in the last month: 6

I bet the devils did it on the same day each week!

They do it where I live too. Big gang of fellers in a great big antisocial looking lorry.

Re:The Daily Mail!

[Bralkein]

I can't imagine very many schools here in the UK have such things as this in place (I am only twenty and I have a little sister in school, so I would probably have heard about it), but even if they should become commonplace, I have little faith that anything short of tear gas will bring those little bastards to heel! ;-)

Re:nothing wrong

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

That's "autumn" here in the UK, you insensitive clod!

Simple.

[/dev/trash]

It's eliminated all crime.

Re:The quote that says it - "scary to realize"

[tomhudson]

I agree, a voice over a loudspeaker doesn't make things more secure.

It reminds me of the comedy routine where the guy goes:

"In my house, you never talked back, so I was kind of freaked when I heard my friend tell his mother to go f*ck herself. I asked how he got away with it. He said "Simple, they threaten to punish me, I say I'm going to call youth services and report them. I get away with EVERYTHING I want."

"So I went home, and when my father asked me to take out the garbage, I said "F*ck you pops, I'm busy watching TV!'

And dad went ... "Russell ... one of us is going to get a big hurt in a minute, and its not me ..."

"And I went 'Oh, yeah? You lay a hand on my and I'll call Youth Services."

"Russell ... you can phone Youth Services, but remember , it takes them 20 minutes to get here, and one of us is going to get big hurt in the meantime, and its not me."

Having police sitting in front of cameras and shouting over loudspeakers instead of being on the ground would have been a recipe for disaster at the recent Dawson College shooting. The death toll would have been much higher. We'd have had it all on hard disk, but that's cold consolation.

Re:1984 - Almost

[halcyon1234]

Actually, I think the loudspeakers will be shouting something different.

"You... Yes, you behind the bike shed... stand still laddy!"

Re:Where do they get figures from

[spun]

Thus the loudspeakers. I picture the scenario going something like this:

"Hey you with the ski-mask on, we see you! Stop beating up on that poor old woman. Don't you take her handbag, I mean it. Stop it! Really, we're going to find you, Mr. possibly a 6'-4" possibly male most-likely caucasian. We have software that can recognize you by your walk. Hey, stop that! Stop walking all funny! Okay boys, it's got to be John Cleese, no one else that tall can walk that funny, go get him!"

Re:Joking aside....

[Digital Vomit]

Thank God it can't happen here, happen here, happen here. . .

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