Gotta love technology

[Taz_bb2]

So my wife's company is expanding. They are now printing banners...you know the 5' x 20' ones hanging on businesses. The printer is logically in her office since she does all the art creation and printing for them. Her boss installed a controllable webcam in her office so she can monitor the progress from anywhere...to make sure the banner doesn't fold up on itself, run out of material, etc.

Her current customer ordered 38 banners. She sent a batch to the queue before she left and knew she had to check it about 10pm. So she logged on and found the guy that she was training in her office, eating her chocolates. No biggie, the bowl is left out for everyone. But I couldn't leave well enough alone. I kicked her out of the chair and I take over. (Mind you, I ran the CCTV/Dispatch center at my last agency.)

As "John" walked across the room, I followed him with the camera, which is considerably slower. When John finally came back into view, he was staring at the webcam. I could see him mouth "Are you watching me?" LOL. So, having a little fun, I moved the camera up and down. John started laughing, looked into the camera and asked again..."Are you watching me?" Again, I move the camera up and down. He moves a little to his left...I follow him. He asks again..."Are you REALLY watching me?!?"

My wife is standing beside me laughing. Tears are starting to run down her face, looking at John's disbelief. I tell her to call her office line to see if he'll pick up. He hears the ringing, looks at it for a moment, trying to decide if this is for real. He turns back to the camera and says..."Do you want me to answer that?" I move the camera up and down. By this time, I'm ROFLMAO.

John answers the phone and the first thing my wife says is "BUSTED!!" John says, "Man that is creepy."

I laughed for 20 minutes after we hung with him. The looks on his face were priceless, and I wished that I was able to capture that video.

I know I'm going to burn in hell for doing that to him, but it was funny as hell.

[Wolfman]

lol that's funny :D

[highwayman]

I know of a place like that where I stood guard for them for a couple of months, until they installed wireless CCTV everywhere inside the building.
They printed all the funky banners they dress the busses with and stadium posters.

Pan & tilt cameras were everywhere, not as much in the printing room but inside the office, the brake room and janitorial room.

Nobody had a problem with the live guard watching them, but they did have a problem with the cameras. :confused:

[Firestorm]

LOL. I almost feel sorry for the poor guy.

My boyfriend's friend has an expensive house with a lot of expensive things. He's Microsoft certified, if that tells you anything. At any rate, because his area is prone to getting robbed quite often, he installed a security camera in several areas, and made it accessible through web cam. (I don't know how he did it, though.) There are also speakers hooked up.

It's hilarious when visitors come up to the front door and they suddenly hear: "I'll be right there" before they even get a chance to knock or ring the door bell.

[Taz_bb2]

LOL. I almost feel sorry for the poor guy.

After laughing for almost half an hour, I did. I told her to apologize to him when she saw him today.

Still funny as hell though. Welcome to Candid Camera!!!

[BP348]

That's funny!!!

[tward]

Hilarious, I'd rep you if I didn't have to spread some! :D

[Creeker]

Damn, I'm getting cynical.

I kept expecting that this episode was going to go downhill somehow.

Happy I was wrong. :D

[suzanne1020U.S.]

I kinda wish I was there....lol Shucks.:D

[Cris1102]

Taz you've got a pretty terrific personality for someone who's supposedly a "typical" male *ahem* ... anyhow,

That was a pretty creative prank. I bet that guy thinks you're a total nut .... He now knows what we've all known for awhile :p

And yeah, suz .. I wish I was there too. I'm sure it was side splitting lol

[Cat_Doc]

We had a camera in booking, monitored from dispatch. We also had a speaker page system from which we could access from any phone in the department.

I won't go into some of the fun we had, but your post brought back fond memories of my youthful officer days before I "grew up" and "God" did not talk to the prisoners anymore. :D

There was also the incident in which they purchased a new clearing barrel, just outside the rear entrance door which we used for prisoners. It was one of those (back then) new styles, shaped kind of like a mortar tube, a bit higher than a 45 degree angle. The weapon barrel would be placed between a thick rubber panel on the top which had a slit in it, while clearing.

Okay, we were kids, but someone actually took the "furry" collar off one of their issued jackets, cut it up and glued the fur to the top of the clearing barrel, around the slit, to make it look like....well, you figure it out.

All fun and games until one of the officers decided it would be funny to "dry hump" the clearing barrel, forgetting that the dispatchers were monitoring via a camera there.

Caused a bit of a stir, I tell ya.

I was a sergeant at the time and was able to prevent an official investigation into the fur application, but I did have a hard time keeping a straight face while providing the required verbal counseling to the animated officer.