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Mug shot
cell phone sends pictures of muggers | |
While casually handing your cell phone to muggers, sneakily
activate
panic mode and your phone starts taking pictures or video and
sends
them in a continuous stream. Pics could go straight to the
police, or
somewhere else. Maybe muggers on flickr...
As with a few other suggestions,
sending the phone's location is
also
pretty handy with this.
You can decide whether or not to inform the culprit that their
picture is
being sent. Perhaps if they're smart they might just hand it back?
Or you just get stabbed for being a smartarse.
iphone app anyone?
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Considering the video quality of cell phone cameras, and that most muggings take place at night, this would never work. |
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Maybe. ideally it sets the exposure level as high as possible
at night time, or if it's a phone with flash that fires too.
With non-flash phones it could be a secret process, so sooner
or later it gets an image that works... |
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muggers on flickr I like - a bit less than great tits. |
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welcome [sandbach] are you welsh? |
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hi. er no, but some of the family were |
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//hi. er no, but some of the family were// [marked-for-tagline] |
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Would it be possible to remotely send an activation
command to the phone via the internet? If you get
mugged there is usually not enough reaction time to
press a button, I also assume your keypad has to be
unlocked before the button can be pressed, muggers
don't respond well to you screwing around on your
phone before you hand it to them or before they
take it. Also your phone could be stolen and it could
be a while before you realize it. |
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Good idea Uncle G. Much better that way. |
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The original idea was for camera phones with a flash so it was
obvious the pictures were being taken. then by telling the
muggers I thought maybe they'd just give up the idea. But
probably this plan would have just resulted in much
amusement for the muggers and big trouble for the
smartarse. Your plan of remote activation of the camera is
much safer! |
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ha ha. OK OK.... I'm welsh and I'm proud! Ah, there is
better now, is it. |
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//muggers on flickr// (sp. "muggrs") |
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