Sunday, September 04, 2005

Security Issues

















Even in a clean, safe, no-crime-doesn't-mean-no-crime place like Singapore, the heartlander is not safe from slipper-thieves and sabotuers. We've all had our shiny new Nike or Mizuno shoe stolen by unknown persons (the usual suspects are normally Bangla workers, poor buggers) from right under our hairy noses, but my friend has seen something on another level altogether.

My buddy Shaniz (he's a guy) has his own issues in his housing estate at Telok Blangah. Some looney is causing him psychological trauma by pouring mud or some unidentified curry inside his sports shoes when he's relaxing at home watching Vasantham Central. Yes, CURRY, of all things.

Anyway, after repeated complaints to the Police, Shaniz felt he had to take the issue into his own hairy hands and do something about it. So he went to Sim Lim square for two days, all by himself, no parental company, and shopped for and bought a surveillance camera. Yes, he bought a damn camera to catch the bugger who throws Curry inside his sports shoes (but the camera, with its wires and stuff, was in a small pink plastic bag, commonly used for prata packages = low credibility). He plans to do a Matlock by giving the Police the footage and letting them do their job if the culprit gets caught on video.

The one shown above, fresh from the box (at a private viewing in a hawker centre) is the one he's gonna connect to his hard drive recorder (instead of video tapes, this baby records to a 80 GB hard drive).

Meanwhile, he is also going to install a decoy camera (called a dummy dome: the ones you see in some lifts, but minus the camera inside) outside his flat so that CurryMan will be scared off. Or CurryMan'll smash the dummy thinking it's the real thing and get caught on video by the real one and then get caught by the police and get fined, caned and jailed for causing damage to property.

So folks: you too can get a surveillance camera! At Sim Lim! All for a minimum of $60! But don't use it for stupid things like trying to see what the chick in the opposite block is wearing at night! It doesn't work that way! (You need a telescope for that).

1 comment:

YB said...

Yup, thats right. I have heard this story, not sure how true it is. The Sales executives come knocking at our house to sell life saving stuff (keropok, curry puffs, vacuum cleaners, etc) and we, the genius that we are, purposely do not open our doors hoping that they would think that nobody's at home with the TV sound blasting away.Then the sales execs get pissed to have been ignored and throw one of the shoes down to teach the goons at home a lesson. Maybe that's how some of us have lost one of our expensive shoe.