truthseeker1980
21-03-2007, 05:03 PM
THE SUN newspaper reported today the following.
Spies to bug our baked beans
By VIRGINIA WHEELER
March 21, 2007
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A COUNCIL is planning to catch residents who leave rubbish out on the wrong day — with cameras hidden in BAKED BEANS tins.
Sneaky Ealing Council in West London will also put the tiny CCTV bugs inside house bricks to film offenders.
Householders caught breaking strict new rubbish rules — dubbed “enviro-crimes” — will be fined up to £1,000.
The surveillance plans have outraged residents who say it is the latest example of Big Brother Britain. It follows a £2million scheme adopted by six councils to put the devices in wheelie bins.
A spokesman for Tory-controlled Ealing yesterday said the £200 movement-sensitive bugs — which may be placed on existing rubbish piles — would become a “vital tool” in catching wheelie bin mis-users and graffiti artists.
He said: “To catch vandals and enviro-criminals, cameras disguised as anything from tin cans to house bricks will instantly email images to the council’s CCTV control centre.”
He added that people who put their rubbish out at all times of the day and night will be targeted. The Ealing Tory councillor responsible for environment Will Brooks said anyone who broke the laws would be considered a fly-tipper.
But local resident Danny Christie, 64, branded the scheme as “utterly insane”.
It's changing so fast, we only go tthe brown wheelie bins last summer, then they bugged them with a chip now this.
Spies to bug our baked beans
By VIRGINIA WHEELER
March 21, 2007
COMMENT ON THIS STORY
A COUNCIL is planning to catch residents who leave rubbish out on the wrong day — with cameras hidden in BAKED BEANS tins.
Sneaky Ealing Council in West London will also put the tiny CCTV bugs inside house bricks to film offenders.
Householders caught breaking strict new rubbish rules — dubbed “enviro-crimes” — will be fined up to £1,000.
The surveillance plans have outraged residents who say it is the latest example of Big Brother Britain. It follows a £2million scheme adopted by six councils to put the devices in wheelie bins.
A spokesman for Tory-controlled Ealing yesterday said the £200 movement-sensitive bugs — which may be placed on existing rubbish piles — would become a “vital tool” in catching wheelie bin mis-users and graffiti artists.
He said: “To catch vandals and enviro-criminals, cameras disguised as anything from tin cans to house bricks will instantly email images to the council’s CCTV control centre.”
He added that people who put their rubbish out at all times of the day and night will be targeted. The Ealing Tory councillor responsible for environment Will Brooks said anyone who broke the laws would be considered a fly-tipper.
But local resident Danny Christie, 64, branded the scheme as “utterly insane”.
It's changing so fast, we only go tthe brown wheelie bins last summer, then they bugged them with a chip now this.