Wednesday, December 28, 2005

The NYPD Is Watching Yo' Ass

LITERALLY!!

While watching some of the critical mass bike riders, the NYPD taped a pair doin' it like they do on the Discovery Channel from a $10 million helicopter. The hilarity in this article is that while the woman in the video wouldn't give her name out of simple modesty, the guy is a little too proud to be talking to the friggin' NY Times:
Mr. Rosner, a music business executive who owns the penthouse, said he remembered a police helicopter hovering overhead, which he assumed was only monitoring the throng of bicycle riders below.

"I'm very happy about cameras in public spaces," Mr. [Jeffrey] Rosner said. "If you're in a public space doing something inappropriate, I'm all for that. But if I'm in my house and you're using multimillion-dollar equipment to film me, not at all."
So that was the funny part of this post. The other aspects of this are more scary as the NYPD and their comrades in law enforcement over at the FBI are watching your ass during typically peaceful protests.

4 Comments:

>>>>>> Anonymous Ogre said...

funny you should talk about the N.Y.P.D. but show a picture of an English "Bobby". way to research

1/04/2006 10:47 AM  
>>>>>> Blogger Fenton Harwick III said...

OMG, way to nitpick. What do you think we are? USA TODAY?

For future reference, that's not an English Bobby but rather a Irish Babby. This is probably our own fault for never putting up our "About Us" page but since you appear to be a regular reader, it might be apparent that we try to find the stupidest pictures possible. Journalistic relevance is really not our goal in choosing pictures.

So your attempt to criticize our research methodology is really an inadvertant compliment. Thanks!

1/04/2006 2:01 PM  
>>>>>> Anonymous overheard said...

He sure told you!

1/04/2006 3:13 PM  
>>>>>> Anonymous Ogre said...

no he really didn't. seems he uses the same "research methodology" as CBS or the coal mine reporters.

1/05/2006 7:51 PM  

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