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Pigeon CCTV
Public Surveillance - a use for pigeons!
 
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Everyone complains about pigeons, that there's too many in our cities and they're a pest - thus could give them a use?

Mount small wireless camera's in a pigeon and thus the centrally located operations centre could view the pigeon's whereabouts and if they see anything suspicious take a snap shot from the pigeon closest!

Think about it, something dodgy going on and a plain clothed spy would only need drop some corn on the floor and the pigeons would descend!

Also by getting pooed on by a pigeon, may give a new meaning to 'just been caught'!


Findus, Mar 22 2007

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       It's a fair coo, guv.   

       (sorry)

theleopard, Mar 22 2007
  

       Oddly, I had almost the same idea at the beginning of the week. Retrofitting pigeons with either audio or video or stills low-power equipment that sends encrypted information to the web periodically - the mass of pigeons and the wisdom of crowds would allow an aggregate pervasive immersion to be built up.

Ian Tindale, Mar 22 2007
  
      
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