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Pilot Cameras at Cal Anderson Park Seemingly Breed More, Unaccounted-for Cameras

Cienna Madrid
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1
Silly string works wonders.

It's not as good as a nice spray-on resin with a packet of sparkles, mind you.
Will in Seattle on June 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM Report this
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I think they are new traffic cameras....not the ticket giving kind, but the traffic volume monitoring kind...

http://www.seattle.gov/trafficcams/

no biggie...
Short, Dark and Handsome on June 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM Report this
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"Uh, guys, come here and look at this... isn't that our office?"
Proteus on June 3, 2010 at 5:43 PM Report this
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Once the situation room is set up, the temptation to add more cameras is apparently irresistible.

Oh well, the time is coming when we will all be swallowing capsule endoscope cameras once a year. I figure the hovercam personal diarist with auto-blog will follow soon after.
rob! on June 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM Report this
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"springing up like rabbis"

OMG!!!, this pickle i'm sucking on is not kosher...

ohhh, she said "rabbits"; sorry...

everything is fine then, whew, because rabbits are like teh baby jesus and don't give a rats ass what kind of pickle i suck on, wow, feel much better now.
pissy mcslogbot on June 3, 2010 at 6:30 PM Report this
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as I was sitting at the intersection on 23rd and Cherry on my scooter driving north on 23rd, I looked up and espied a camera sitting atop a light pole pointed right at me. I looked around and saw no sign indicating it was a camera to ticket folks who've run the light there, and it was the only one at the intersection, so I wondered what in the hell I was being filmed for and for whom and for why. I had a momentary feeling of ickiness before the light turned and I sped off. Now I know! It's the city's "other camera" pointed at Garfield High. WTF!?
gracey on June 3, 2010 at 6:41 PM Report this
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Y'all don't spend much time in Squire Park, do you?

Since SPD installed their satellite precinct at 23rd & E. Union a couple of years ago, a lot of the open-air drug trafficking has traveled south along 23rd to - the same three block strip along 23rd where these cameras "just happen" to be located.

And SPD's response, when asked about these cameras, PLUGGED DIRECTLY INTO THEIR OWN MONITORING SYSTEM, is "vee know nothink!" (to use a thoroughly appropriate 1960's TV catch phrase)?

Riiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhhtttttt...
COMTE on June 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM Report this
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Creepy as hell.
gloomy gus on June 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM Report this
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The next question is:

If you didn't order them, did you pay for them?
darkmane on June 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM Report this
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Yeah, why should the police make any effort to catch gangbangers shooting each other? A total waste of money, let them kill each other off at Garfield.
on June 3, 2010 at 8:10 PM Report this
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I think somebody's getting fired for this :(
on June 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM Report this
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@5 - um...huh?
MLP on June 3, 2010 at 8:35 PM Report this
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@12: I don't know, i jus read it like a rabbi was springing up all over the place, like a holy-dude popping up here and there.... and maybe cameras are like the eyes of god or some shit.
pissy mcslogbot on June 3, 2010 at 9:06 PM Report this
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or not... who fucking cares?
pissy mcslogbot on June 3, 2010 at 9:08 PM Report this
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Not so mysterious - we reported in these last year and pun they were requested by east precinct police commanders after several high-profile incidents there:
http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2009/…
Scottd on June 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM Report this
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Yep, CD News has been reporting about these cameras for a while, (but I can't @15's links to work) :
http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2009/…

You can also view the camera's online:
http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2010/…

StrangeLove on June 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM Report this
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@14: Whatever, you cracked me up with the line, "this pickle i'm sucking on is not kosher..."
Irena on June 3, 2010 at 11:00 PM Report this
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They made a training film about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RwhYCtw…
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on June 4, 2010 at 12:27 AM Report this
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Good.
Vince on June 4, 2010 at 7:00 AM Report this
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In the future, everyone will be arrested in 15 minutes
yelahneb on June 4, 2010 at 8:09 AM Report this
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@12 "Go suck on a pickle" is an epithet that dates back to at least the middle ages and more couth than our current version.

@5 Very clever, funny twist of this epithet. I liked it even better after you said you read it as "springing up like rabbis"
Dbug61 on June 4, 2010 at 8:15 AM Report this
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"is more couth" sorry...missed the verb...
Dbug61 on June 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM Report this
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I live a block away. These cameras seem like a good idea to me.
Steven Bradford on June 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM Report this
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If no one put the cameras there, they are presumably lost or abandoned. Why not take them down and see whether the ether that delivered them complains?
on June 4, 2010 at 8:34 AM Report this
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Shit is fucking creepy.
LiberatusQuirkus on June 4, 2010 at 9:18 AM Report this
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Annie Haskins: Mom, there's a video of our house on the computer!

Untraceable
welcometothemurk22 on June 5, 2010 at 6:05 PM Report this

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