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Crimespotting: the new way to make money on the Internet

  • 06-10-2009 8:43am
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    A new world wide "game" is to be launched on the internet in the coming months where thousands of normally unmanned CCTV networks are hooked up on line and are available to members of the public snoop out criminals.

    Retail outlets and eventually it is hoped town councils and police will pay a £20 a week fee per CCTV which in turn is paid out in spot prises of up to £1000 every time an arrest is made. False or nuisance cases will deduct points from your account.

    The first 10,000 people to sign up will receive a point towards the league tables.

    Not a very good idea, apart from civil liberties groupes up in arms it also gives potential criminals an opportunity to view the "blind spots" of a CCTV system if they intended committing a crime once they find out the location..

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6862398.ece

    Actual brochure


Comments

  • #2
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sweet!


    I better get a GBH in my first hour playing it or I'm giving up and going back to GTA IV though.


  • #3
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQhXsmsT48


    Brilliant...can we sell the DVD's on the net?


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    I can see this being popular amongst players of The Sims.


  • #5
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    I can see this being popular amongst players of The Sims.

    yeah but this wouldn't be as fun as that, cos on the sims one can build a concentration camp.


  • #6
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Getting paid to play this game?



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  • #7
    itac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭itac


    My first thoughts were: bit late for an April Fools, isn't it?
    I'd hate to live anywhere that has a system like that in place, gives far too much scope for nosey family/neighbours/colleagues/randomer-who-met-you-in-a-pub-and-can-now-stalk-you-round-town-online...:D


  • #8
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    If you get to use the cameras that either have that voice of god thing or the sound that makes teenagers poo their pants then this could be a real winner.


  • #9
    geeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    My first thought is that whoever thought this up is a f*&king genius and will soon be a millionaire.

    Speaking more seriously, I'm not sure what to make of this at all.


  • #10
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    BIG BROTHER


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