[UA] Sometimes UA Just Falls Into Your Lap

[Greg Stolze]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Joe Murphy wrote:

> On 2/12/07, Eslington ~ <eslington at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame are out there for the grasping.
>
> A .sig I saw recently:
>
> "In the future, we'll all have privacy for 15 minutes."

Hah!  Yeah, that's mine -- or more specifically, Mark Carlsson's.   
He's a buddy of mine who was commenting on a crime that was recently  
solved... can't remember where though.  Anyhow, this woman was  
murdered in the street by a complete stranger, and as the police  
investigated they said, "Well, there's an ATM right over there.   
Let's check its camera and see if the perp got caught on it.  Oh, and  
there's probably a camera at that convenience store.  And the gas  
station.  Mm, and that post office over there..."  Sure enough, they  
pieced together a long string of camera captures showing her getting  
off the bus, and a man following her on foot for over a mile before  
killing her.

The pair of them were caught on something like sixty cameras in that  
time.  As Mark commented, "This is scary on a couple levels.  One is,  
obviously, that crazy men are out there killing women for no reason.   
But the other is just the degree of surveillance that has developed  
without anyone really complaining or even noticing."

-G.
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