Digg ThisFound this today. You can see the photos and the gal’s story over at flickr. It’s also posted at digg.com (but this just points back to the same articles I just pointed out).
I pointed out a similar incident last week. We’re just at the beginning of this. It’s going to happen more often as camera phones become less expensive and more popular. A rise in megapixels and capacity will also give camera phones a boost.
Another gadget on the rise is the miniature digicam like this one — for unreal prices. I just saw a couple of cameras in Office Max this week that are either credit-card-sized or about the size of a typical flip-type cell phone.
What I can’t believe is that these asshats would actually take the risk on this kind of behavior in such a captive place as a New York subway car or a bus, when more and more people are carrying concealable digital cameras these days. Think about this: these folks can flash someone, get their picture taken (perhaps unknowingly!), and get off the bus two stops later only to be greeted by the local gendarmes. Later they find out that the person they molested took their photo and posted their pic, limp weiner and all, to the Internet as soon as she disembarked!
Who need to pick people out of a lineup? With digital face recognition tools already commonplace with police departments all over, a perp can get identified, located and detained in a matter of minutes: “Oh, yeah. That’s Fester Bestertester. Up to his old tricks again… Well, we know where to pick him up; shouldn’t have too much trouble making the charges stick this time. Mind if we download that photo you took, Miss? We’ll need the evidence.”
Nobody ever said these guys were smart.
