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Old 02-06-2009, 09:14 PM
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even the CCTV needs protection!

Old 02-06-2009, 09:20 PM
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Plenty of that on some estates up here
Old 02-06-2009, 09:21 PM
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im working in a residential area of edinburgh were the streets have large poles erected just to hold cameras and theyre boxed in at the top with spikes around the pole half way up to stop anyone climbing up. were building new houses where some are £230000
Old 02-06-2009, 09:25 PM
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99% are like that in sheff lol
Old 02-06-2009, 09:26 PM
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both my primary school and high school since i have left (7 years ago for high school) have had 7 foot palacide fences put up on the full perimiter
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Whats protecting the cage thats protecting the CCTV though?
Old 02-06-2009, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy
im working in a residential area of edinburgh were the streets have large poles erected just to hold cameras and theyre boxed in at the top with spikes around the pole half way up to stop anyone climbing up. were building new houses where some are £230000

Go those where i live, the cameras on post not the 230k houses
Old 02-06-2009, 09:33 PM
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someone ramraided the local corner shop last week, unfortunately the guy that did it stayed 3 doors along from the shop and theres a camera on a pole in the street, when the police raided his house they also got him with loads of drugs. what a tit.
Old 02-06-2009, 10:24 PM
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criminals arent the brightest though are they??
Old 02-06-2009, 10:28 PM
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i fitted 2 cctv systems and a dvr box to a landfill site and they sole equipment from the site and then took they cams and the dvr box
Old 02-06-2009, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by warrenpenalver
criminals arent the brightest though are they??


They are not mate, know some body that ran an exstention lead from his flat which was above a shop. He was drilling the locks with an electric drill,some body busted him,he legged it and the police were waiting at his door when he got back, what a tit
Old 02-06-2009, 10:37 PM
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In Luton we had a cctv camera watching another camera as the first camera was very high tech and wanted clear face pictures and kept getting stolen, as it was worth a lot of money.
Old 02-06-2009, 10:53 PM
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when my old place had a brake in the installed cctv outside,,,,, few weeks later we got broken into again so checed our 8k cctv system for footage to catch thev fuckers, we got infored cameras for night time,,, prropeer tools liike !!!!

1 ish in the morning the cctv camera goes from facing the back door to looking up at the sky,,,,,, the cockey fuckers used a pole to poke the camera up so we had heathrow flight path recording as we was getting robbed
Old 02-06-2009, 11:09 PM
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Doh ginge! Arent most camera mounts bolt secured so they dont "fall" out of position let alone get Pushed with a pole!!!
Old 02-06-2009, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy
im working in a residential area of edinburgh were the streets have large poles erected just to hold cameras and theyre boxed in at the top with spikes around the pole half way up to stop anyone climbing up. were building new houses where some are £230000
Any where near sighthill or westerhails then?
Old 03-06-2009, 06:23 AM
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Originally Posted by e30cossie
In Luton we had a cctv camera watching another camera as the first camera was very high tech and wanted clear face pictures and kept getting stolen, as it was worth a lot of money.
camera watching camera... yeah it does make sense. It looks like they dont know how to spend money...
Old 03-06-2009, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by focusjohn
Any where near sighthill or westerhails then?
no, the other side, niddrie. wester hailes was my home ground were i grew up.
Old 03-06-2009, 07:31 AM
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They were like that at my old high school coz they all got nicked after being up for less than a week
Old 08-06-2009, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by daveselwood
i fitted 2 cctv systems and a dvr box to a landfill site and they sole equipment from the site and then took they cams and the dvr box
you jokeing,that takes the piss
Old 08-06-2009, 07:00 AM
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Round our town round the estates you see it alot. And the other thing is boxed in intruder alarm bells!
Old 08-06-2009, 07:41 AM
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What about the camera's watching the camera's? Ive seen that before.

To stop people vandalising the cctv,

Old 08-06-2009, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by BigErn
Plenty of that on some estates up here
Yeh like grange town near middlesbrough lol.
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