Man had bathroom cameras

[Pangloss]

Cynical of the judicial system? No.

Aware of the very human temptation to pander to the public? Sure.

Splitting hairs: I'll leave that to you.

This is getting boring.

Pangloss

 

[able]

No matter how you approach it, cameras in the bathroom doesn't smell the best. Imagine how guests who might have used the bathroom are feeling right now. The women would be in a frenzy, while the guys are thinking "did I hit the toilet seat"?

 

[Twila]

Gee, Twila, do prosecutors (and judges up for election) ever pander to the general public and make sweeping bans from time to time? Naah, couldn't possibly happen.

Just something to think about.

Your right. They're suppose to do right by the children.

But either way the guy is an ass. Wonder what the mom was doing? or wasn't doing, as the case maybe

 

[Twila]

Bail conditions can be about anything, are usually sweeping and all-inclusive, and often relate very little to the charges being pressed.

But, hey - who am I to tell you to not overreact?

is it over reacting or stirring the pot.....we'll probably never know...besides why ruin the fun?

 

[snfu73]

what I read was


I wonder why they'd ban him from contact with his own children? I wonder why they'd ban sexually explicit material if he was only being domineering?

I agree...that does raise some suspicions...although, as the article says, the investigation is still continuing. Maybe those conditions were placed on until they can for sure rule out or rule in the idea of pedophelia or sexually related indiscretions. Who knows.

 

[snfu73]

Cynical of the judicial system? No.

Aware of the very human temptation to pander to the public? Sure.

Splitting hairs: I'll leave that to you.

This is getting boring.

Pangloss

If it's getting boring...why do you bother? We hate to bore you. Feel free to move to another topic.

 

[snfu73]

Bathroom video camera lands father man in jail

May 11, 2007
FARMINGDALE, Maine --A Farmingdale man accused of invading his children's privacy by installing a video camera in their bathroom was arrested after a wireless signal carrying the images was picked up by a passing motorist.
Police were alerted by a motorist who reported seeing a child using the bathroom over his vehicle's personal wireless back-up signal.
John Harrison, 50, was charged Thursday with two misdemeanor counts of violation of privacy and possession of sexually explicit materials, police said.
A state police investigator reported finding numerous videotaped images of Harrison's wife and three minor children, ages 9 through 15, using the bathroom. The images were broadcast by wireless cameras to monitors in another room in the house, police said.
Harrison's wife told police she knew there was a camera in the bathroom but didn't know it was recording. Police are currently reviewing material from digital cameras, recorders and computers seized from the home.
"We have a mountain of material to go through," said State Police Detective Sgt. Glenn Lang, supervisor of the computer crimes task force.
Harrison was scheduled to make an initial court appearance via video link. Prosecutors asked for bail to be set at $25,000 worth of property or $12,500 in cash.

 

[snfu73]

More...complete with video that sheds a little more light on the story...

http://www.wmtw.com/news/13301917/detail.html?rss=port&psp=news

 

[Twila]

hmmm, seems his wife had an affair on him 9 yrs ago so THAT'S why he needed to put a camera in the kids washroom.

Harrison's wife told police she knew there was a camera in the bathroom but didn't know it was recording.

So...why would you put the camera in there if you weren't going to record anything? Makes me think the wife doesn't want to know why the husband is video taping.

 

[snfu73]

hmmm, seems his wife had an affair on him 9 yrs ago so THAT'S why he needed to put a camera in the kids washroom.


So...why would you put the camera in there if you weren't going to record anything? Makes me think the wife doesn't want to know why the husband is video taping.

This is going to sound...bad...but...did you see the shirt that he had on? Not that he should be judged on that t-shirt....but...well...who knows.

 

[Twila]

You can take the poor white trash out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the poor white trash...

 

[snfu73]

You can take the poor white trash out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the poor white trash...

Well...to me it had sexual connotations..."how many licks?"...but...I may be reading WAY too much into that. However, I suspect so was the reporter and videographer, given that they had a close up shot that included that in it.

 

[smilingfish]

hmmm, seems his wife had an affair on him 9 yrs ago so THAT'S why he needed to put a camera in the kids washroom.


So...why would you put the camera in there if you weren't going to record anything? Makes me think the wife doesn't want to know why the husband is video taping.

Or she knew everything, and she took part of it. Now he's accused and she doesn't want to get into trouble so she lies.

And how could all their kids not know it if they used that bathroom everyday? I knew everything in my home when I was a very young kid, including the condoms my parents hid high above the top of the wardrobe! I just didn't say anything about it. ;-) Let alone there're adult kids.

 

[smilingfish]

And I ditto with the "drug" theory.

When I was in high school(not in Canada), once one of my friends told me in their school there's a camera in every classroom. One day some kids wanted to smoke in the classroom, and of course didn't want to be caught. So they sat right under the camera where it's a blind area, and smoked. But still the principal saw the smoke rising from below, and caught them.

 

[Libra Girl]

By BETTY ADAMS

from the Morning Sentinel






...Harrison's wife, contacted at work, told police she knew there was a camera in the bathroom but didn't know it was recording.

This also struck me as odd when first reading the OP. Why would a woman/mother condone having a camera in the bathroom? What did she think that it was there for? She knew it was there, but didn't know it was recording? Utter nonsense!



But, in any event, what possible need would there be for having a camera in a bathroom?

 

[Pangloss]

If it's getting boring...why do you bother? We hate to bore you. Feel free to move to another topic.

No, no no - snfu - I've yet to find you uninteresting. The petty nitpicking of another was getting boring.

There is a debating tactic in this (and many other) community of deliberately misreading another's post, as if tiny logical oversights invalidated an entire argument. It's dishonest and tiresome. I think it's been done to you (if memory serves), so you know how enervating it is.

Pangloss