ComicalGnomes wrote:
sinister agent wrote:
some human-shaped thing scuffling with some other human-shaped things.
My major complaint against CCTV, it's about as good as a cheap webcam. What this means is, you can just about make out that 3 people have brutally murdered someone, but not who they killed, or who they are. So while you know what has happened, you can't do a damn thing about it.
Similar with shop security cameras, most playback of these that I've seen on tv are time-delayed shots of blur that you can't make anything out of. ffs.
I meant to post about this earlier on.
A very good friend of mine was set upon by six lads and beaten unconscious with thick dog chains and a metal pole. he could well have died.
The beatings took place outside a high school surrounded by CCTV and getting away after they first cornered him he ran to the only thing open nearby, which was a petrol station forecourt, which is where the main beating took place. There was CCTV footage at both of these places, but the quality was such that it was useless.
Actually, the way the policeman explained this made it seem that he was suggestion that because the attackers were black it was too difficult to make out his attackers features, but whether the cameras are too poor to make faces out, or too poor to make the faces of black people out isn't really the point - they don't do the job they are intended to do.
EDIT: Meant to say, my friend was OK after a time in hospital, many stitches and a staple in his skull, but he came through fine, considering that many people said the ferocity of the attack may well have killed him.