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Dumb or what?...........
I have a 50% share in a self service cash business that runs 24/7 - we have 8 security cameras dotted around site recording all movements 24/7.
Couple 18yo kids decided they would souvenir 3 of our cameras and add to the collection of dozens of others they had pinched from other locations.
Coppers are called and view the footage - kids faces clearly visible as no attempt to cover them at all as they approached cameras - assessed degree of difficulty to remove - position ladder to get up high enough - go to work with their tools to remove - then bugger off
Ist copper says - I know that kid - that's so and so - look at his tattoo - other copper chimes in and his mate is other so and so - they are always in the mall at 10 to 11am so lets go grab them up - both in the slammer within 2 hours.
Good taste in video cameras though - the footage even showed the colours of their eyes - dickheads! Apparently CC video cameras worth way more in drug industry now than even stolen smart phones - buyers and sellers are mounting them all around their houses - coppers are laughing their heads off as they say biggest give away to finding houses that may house drug dealers / users / stashes is degree of video security adorning outside.
Yeah we are well insured and only real cost to us is time wasted but it's 3rd vandalism / theft type claim in last 12mths and policy will go up - again whole community eventually bears these costs - just more hidden costs of the hideous plague of drug culture which costing all of us.
Edit: I meant to add the really sad part about this type of thing is the actual destruction of young lives - a few bob here and there to us is nothing - but god if these kids only understand what damage they doing to themselves and their families.
I have a 50% share in a self service cash business that runs 24/7 - we have 8 security cameras dotted around site recording all movements 24/7.
Couple 18yo kids decided they would souvenir 3 of our cameras and add to the collection of dozens of others they had pinched from other locations.
Coppers are called and view the footage - kids faces clearly visible as no attempt to cover them at all as they approached cameras - assessed degree of difficulty to remove - position ladder to get up high enough - go to work with their tools to remove - then bugger off
Ist copper says - I know that kid - that's so and so - look at his tattoo - other copper chimes in and his mate is other so and so - they are always in the mall at 10 to 11am so lets go grab them up - both in the slammer within 2 hours.
Good taste in video cameras though - the footage even showed the colours of their eyes - dickheads! Apparently CC video cameras worth way more in drug industry now than even stolen smart phones - buyers and sellers are mounting them all around their houses - coppers are laughing their heads off as they say biggest give away to finding houses that may house drug dealers / users / stashes is degree of video security adorning outside.
Yeah we are well insured and only real cost to us is time wasted but it's 3rd vandalism / theft type claim in last 12mths and policy will go up - again whole community eventually bears these costs - just more hidden costs of the hideous plague of drug culture which costing all of us.
Edit: I meant to add the really sad part about this type of thing is the actual destruction of young lives - a few bob here and there to us is nothing - but god if these kids only understand what damage they doing to themselves and their families.
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:shock: (the cynic in me would say "go wrong")
