Mr Ink 5000 said:
I don't commit crimes and the cams aint in my house, so I dont have an issue
They aren't in your house yet
Azure-Supernova said:
Only cameras we have around here are in major points (if 'major' even applies to Cannock in any sense of the word) of the shopping centre. They don't bother me to be fair, whatever helps security stopping the layabout trying to shank me over who was in line for a Greggs sausage roll first.
They still try to though because they either aren't smart enough to worry about the cameras, know they'll do no good or desperate for that meat and pastry goodness. Any way you look at it, let the pratt go first.
JWRosser said:
It doesn't bother me that they're there in regards to privacy, as they don't look into my house or anything. But don't be mislead - this isn't like 1984 - you don't walk down the street only to have cameras ominously following you. In fact, I've hardly noticed. Of course they're outside quite a few shops or banks but that can be expected.
They are following you, that's the point of them. My mate used to work in the control room in Stoke and they could follow anyone they liked with the cameras...strangely enough, scantily clad girls seem to get followed a lot...Just because you're not being followed by a hovering cam-droid doesn't mean you're not being observed.
Take the shots of that bloke drunkenly walking home in London that were on the news a week or 2 ago. They followed him for ages, no doubt laughing at his repeated attempts to smash his face open on the floor. They never sent anyone to help/arrest him but followed him from pub to home.
Shadowsafter said:
Caligulas.dog said:
I am not from the UK, but I once made holiday there. One night we got drunk and were weaving over a street as out of the sudden a voice out of a speaker told us, that we are not allowed to weave here. As a someone from a country that is really ***** about cameras and privacy (Germany) I found that highly disturbing. My friend then kicked down a bin and we run away.
Hold on a bloody second I just read this and, WHAT?
I have never encountered any of this sort of thing in all my 16 years of living here.
The only place I'd expect to encounter such a thing is in YOUR country of Germany (Circa 1942)
I call thee a LIAR!
I know I shouldn't feed the troll but...this is a feature of some cameras, the operator plugs into the camera and starts giving instructions. One night out my mate was relieving himself in an alley and a disembodied voice shouted "don't do that", we legged it and the voice followed us coming from different cameras until we'd left the town centre.
Trivun said:
As an Englishman I don't see any problem with cameras, and I don't feel like my privacy is being breached. The way I've always seen it is that if you have nothing to hide then why argue against CCTV cameras at all? I have nothing to hide, so I'm all for them. If they started trying to wire up my home or whatever with cameras then yes, I would have a problem, because that is breaching your privacy, but in public it's all good. If you don't like being caught on film then don't go outside, it's that simple.
Yeah, because that's really an option. Depending on where you live, they're already looking in your house. So you've got to not go out and keep the curtains shut.
Gunner 51 said:
I'll agree with you on other road users. Some people are damned good drivers who can handle the speed and there's a whole load of others who merely think they can handle it. Perhaps advanced driving lessons should be made cheaper to improve standards on the roads these days.
Though I rather liked your quote though, it's quite a humble and sensible view if I may so.
One day they'll learn that speed doesn't kill anyone, inadequate stopping distance does. next time you're on the motorway look at the line of people smuggly doing 50mph in the slow lane 3 feet from the car in front and I'm doing 71mph with 200 yards stopping distance and *I'm* the bad driver. They don't even leave and stopping distance when there are chevrons on the road telling you the minimum distance you're supposed to be.
I like the way the roads are done in France, 130kph in the dry, 110kph in the wet. Though they'd actually have to employ people who can think rather than spend the £20 million+ they spent on the average speed section of the M6. (Not to mention the 18 months of disruption it caused)
How long it'll take to make the money back from that I hate to think, surely 1 policeman + car per mile (who can do other things if necessary like help stranded motorists) would be more cost-effective than a lot of concrete and metal that does nothing but cause agro.
Then again, there are less back handers in employing people over putting in massive roadworks
Yes, I'm bitter ;-)
) it does kinda urke me knowing I'm always being watched....
