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Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland

Posted by samzenpus on from the watching-the-watchers dept.

Cornwallis writes in with a story reminding cameras everywhere that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching you. "Many people find speed cameras frustrating, and some in the region are taking their rage out on the cameras themselves. But now there's a new solution: cameras to watch the cameras. One is already in place, and Prince George's County Police Maj. Robert V. Liberati hopes to have up to a dozen more before the end of the year. 'It's not worth going to jail over a $40 ticket or an arson or destruction of property charge,' says Liberati."

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  1. Excellent! by rastoboy29 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is obviously the right way for our society to go.

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  2. Except... by rwven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's no possible way someone would think of destroying the camera-observing-camera BEFORE the speed camera.

    Then you end up with TWO broken cameras, and didn't accomplish anything.

    1. Re:Except... by metalgamer84 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Common sense never seems to be a factor in these "bright ideas" that some panel of people came up with. Wasting money is what they do best, fixing problems is the least of their concerns.

  3. First of all by king+neckbeard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The camera watching cameras are an easy target, and I don't think people really buy the safety crap anymore. Its a money making teacher and we all know it

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  4. get rid of all the cameras by Dan667 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    getting rid of revenue cameras would be easier instead of watching Americans like paranoid communists.

  5. Re:um... by MitchDev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or wear masks. Dith the camera, we're sick of Big Brother. We're disgusted with the Police State America is descending in to. The terrorists won. There hasn't been a major terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11. Because of DHS and/or the TSA? No. The terrorists achieved their goal on 9/11, for the past 11 years they've been laughing as America destroys itself over that one day of attacks...