Surveillance cameras catch thieves stealing surveillance cameras

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Surveillance cameras catch thieves stealing surveillance cameras

Canadian Press
Mar. 16, 2006 07:20 AM


PRINCE GEORGE, Canada - It didn't take authorities long to find two suspects who stole the outdoor surveillance cameras at a museum. They had crystal clear pictures from the cameras' tapes.

"It was the ultimate of ironies," said Exploration Place executive director Tracy Calogheros. "I'm not sure what they thought the cameras were doing up there, but they looked up at them so we could get a really good look at their faces.

"They are very clear, good-quality pictures. You can see the detail of their faces, the logos on their clothing, their dog was even in the video," Calogheros said. advertisement

The tape shows a male suspect hitting three of the museum's four video cameras Monday with a large board until they are dislodged.

The museum installed the surveillance cameras last month to deal with vandalism.

"People just decided we were an easy mark. Now we are not. Now we have cameras," Calogheros said last month when the museum got the cameras.

A museum staff member who was driving downtown spotted the suspects and their dog about six hours after the incident and called police.

"If it wasn't for the fact it is going to cost me a couple thousand dollars, it would be really funny," Calogheros said.

One man is now in custody, but the three missing cameras have not been recovered.

The incident took place at about 1 a.m. Monday, with one of the thieves returning at about 6 a.m. to go after a fourth camera before being scared off by a staff member.

 

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Surveillance equipment has the highest occurance of theft at my RadioShack store.

Back when we had electronic bibles, people stole a lot of those too.

Within the first period of the first day that my middle school had cameras in the lunchroom, some jackass got suspended because he looked straight at the camera and flipped it off.