British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras

Rick writes "The Surveillance Society of Great Britain has taken another turn for the worse, as traffic wardens in Eccles, Manchester are being issued with CCTV head sets and given the legal power to impose fines of up to £80 for littering and other anti social behavior"

Comments

Re:well

[DuctTape]

I understand the littering part, but antisocial behavior...?

That would be "behaviour", mate.

DT

Sweet, as long as they put them on YouTube

[Timesprout]

I look forward to what will be a hugely entertaining collection of videos which I can enjoy vicariously of enraged motorists punching the wardens when they get ticketed or clamped. Please let the post the vids on youtube.

Re:Sweet, as long as they put them on YouTube

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm thinking set to Benny Hill music and running at 2x speed? =)

Re:well

[Starburnt]

What's that, hooligans in Shaftesbury knocking over dustbins?

Re:well

[Elsapotk421]

I work for the US Government so I know all about peace love and understanding

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

I can get the next rodney king beating first hand... perhaps the police could even make some money for an extra violent beating...

Actually its watching the traffic wardens...

[martijnd]

All nice and orwellian; but actually these camera's are watching the traffic wardens. So instead of just quietly slipping into civy street wear, and drinking the afternoon away in the pub they are now part of the city wide CCTV network. No more quickly at the struck of five just ticketing the whole street outside the pub and getting your quota.

And then there is the boss screaming on the walkie-talkie -- robbers, robbers, i want visuals, get a moveable camera^H^H^H^H^H warden to stand in the middle of traffic at Charring Cross...

Takes the fun right out a job that does.

Re:Actually its watching the traffic wardens...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've seen enough movies to know how this is gonna go.

First thing the guy's gonna do is strap his camera hat to a dog's head.

British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets see, if they imbed the camera in the old bobbies hat, elongated the roughly concial shape of the bobbies hat to stand approximately 6ft tall put wheels on it and add an electrified trucheon out the front, dont we end up with dalek V1.0?

re: anti social behavior

[n1hilist]

Will this mean there will be less goths and emos on the streets? :)

Re:A change for the worse?

[DigiShaman]

Caining, more caining needed. It's brutal, but effective. You want results, right? Well, extreme goals call for extreme messures. I just wish we had this form of punishment in the US for voilent offenders.

Read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore

Re:Not all that ominous IMO

[Frogbert]

"You know, the courts might not work anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be served."
  -- Marge Simpson

Excellent!

[lindseyp]

Then all we need to counter their over-zealous activity is another kind of robot to push them down the stairs.

Re:well

[CmdrGravy]

I don't doubt it, know your enemy and all that !

Re:well

[lisaparratt]

You're obviously not a Southerner - where do you think the convicts nicked it from? ;P

Re:Not all that ominous IMO

[Anonymous Coward]

"You know, the courts might not work anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be served."

I tried explaining it like that to my neighbor when she discovered one of my cameras in her shower.

Re:well

[Panaflex]

Oh, we go out into the world quite often. Our F16 & F22's allow us spectacular views during laser targeted bombimg runs.