The 1000 Day Holiday

The UK is the most surveillance heavy country in the world. And they have CCTV cameras that can talk at who they are watching.

Just a little 1984ish to get shouted at by a CCTV camera atop a pole
I raised this with a female friend.

She told me her talking CCTV story. She was near the center of town. Walking around carrying a day-pack, wearing jeans and a sweater.

She felt hot, so removed her sweater, and put it in her bag, and stood up to leave. The CCTV camera asked “could the woman who just removed her jumper to please put it back on.”

She looked down and she was wearing just her bra, she had forgotten that she wasn’t wearing a shirt under her jumper. So it worked in her favour it seems.

I talked to a few others, and the only other experience was a girl smoking a joint with some friends, and the camera told them to stop smoking.

She thought it was her paranoia until she discussed it with her friends and they had all heard it. Obviously its not a smelling CCTV. So it must have been a no smoking area or they were really obvious.

I was walking down the street in Edinburgh, Scotland yesterday when someone called out

‘MOBY!’

I was thinking, since it was only a few weeks ago in Dutchland where I was Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins for a night, maybe someone actually thinks Im Moby. And I havent used the nickname since being back in English speaking countries…

But I turn around and say yeah, and its Greg who I met and snowboarded with in Whistler for a week or so. Back in Jan 2004!

What a headspin. Totally random.