Stumble This | You should also watch “Screw Attack - Top 20 SNES Games Part 2 (10-1)” |
The Screw Attack guys try to auction off a copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl for charity before release and some douchebag in the line at Gamestop starts getting in their face. He calls the cops and justice is served.
Why did they have to put a bag over his head? They were in a public area, no? You can't have any reasonable expectation of privacy on a sidewalk in front of a store.
Why did the cop ask them to turn their camera off?
Really, it's probably a case of he shouldn't have been there and is a complete a grade idiot who freaked out and really thinks that people give two craps about him being on a video.
The police probably arrested him as he was more than likely threatening the screwattack guys off camera.
>> ^volumptuous:
Still not sure why he was arrested though. I didn't think you could be arrested just for being a dick.
But yay for the cop arresting the cock for wasting tax-payer dollars.
I also thought that people can be filmed when they have no expectation of privacy, whether they like it or not and whether they consent to it or not.
This makes me want to dig out the video of a cheater at a large LAN party who got caught several years back. They turned on all the lights and threw the cheater and his computer out into the parking lot.
I'm pretty sure that one was staged.
Great karma in action.
Most likely he can't, however if you are trying to get into good graces with the authorities the best thing to do is conform and not rock the boat. If you are trying to prove a point the last thing you want to do is piss off the people who are going to make that point for you.
In other words, the cop's ability to selectively enforce overbroad laws gives him leverage to make arbitrary requests beyond the scope of law, and that sucks. Ubiquitous camera phones are exactly the kind of eternal vigilance needed to protect the people from the government.
The bagface guy got what was coming to him.
Not quite. You have to get permission from everyone you want to display. You get filmed without your permission hundreds of times a day (think "security camera") but if someone wants to put it up on YouTube (or the Sift) that's when a release becomes necessary.
I wonder how many people died waiting on hold for that operator to answer.