SMILE : BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING

A quick rant from the hate garden.

Those who spend anytime here (the three of you) will know that Captain Mark here is an angry puppy, raging at the injustice of anything and everything for any reason one could think of, and probably more.

I�ve recently been irked by just one particular thing. A small yellow sign that people see on cashpoints everywhere in the world. You know what it says?

�ATTENTION THIEVES. YOUR ACTIONS ARE BEING RECORDED ON CCTV�.

Firstly, so what? Since when did CCTV stop anything? I�ve never seen cops swoop on dirty nasty little criminals scallywags thanks to CCTV footage.

Secondly, why tell criminals that we know they�re there and we�re watching? They don�t need to know. All they need to know about being observed on CCTV is when some hardass copper grabs hold of Dodgy Slovakian Invisible Immigrant Card Fraud Boy with a Pythonesque cry of �You�re Fucking Nicked My Beauty!�

Thirdly, all this stupid thing does is give The Criminals a very big message.

Go somewhere else if you want to steal, rob, mug, cheat, lie, and generally be scumbags.

Well what can I say? It�s a very very odd thing to do. Instead of warning the Criminals, why don�t the Police actually � instead of warning the criminals � just protect the pubfuckinglic.

Rant Over And Out. Smell ya later.

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