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Why you shouldn't attack a BBC reporter…

Posted on November 3, 2009 | 3 comments |

…particularly if

  1. You're being watched on CCTV cameras
  2. He's a black belt in karate

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3 Comments

  1. Joe Bua wrote:
    November 4, 2009 | Reply

    More shocking than a journalist defending himself physically for me as an American? The very facile and precise images that come from the UK CCTV system.

    Surveillance state indeed.

    Wow, that kinda freaks me out. Did the police vehicles respond to the CCTV images or did they get called?

  2. SK wrote:
    November 5, 2009 | Reply

    But what would be the point of fuzzy, grainy, out-of-focus monochrome images where you can't tell who you're looking at?

  3. MediumRob MT wrote:
    November 5, 2009 | Reply

    @Joe: Given that the CCTV camera follows what's happening, I'm guessing someone was keeping an eye on the situation and eventually called in the police. I'm pretty sure the US has similar CCTV now, although less of it - you just don't realise it yet.

    @SK: And the great thing is, if you do something cool, you can ask your local authority to release everything they have on you under the Data Protection Act.

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