One creative man had the beautiful idea of using his Linux-running laptop and cheap Quickcam to record movies inside of a WalMart. Security was not amused:
One weekend we rented a car to visit Conneticut and brought our computer into a Wal-Mart on the way home. We set up Ryu-Oh in a cart, booted, rolled into the store and shot a few movies, driving in circles through different departments. In the toy section we stopped to take a portrait of Ryu-Oh and its operators. Customers and employees were oblivious to us until a few snapshots taken with a flash attracted attention. A Wal-Mart security woman found us and asked if she could help. We said no, so she asked what we were doing. We replied vaguely that we were taking a few pictures. She told us that wasn't allowed, so we'd have to leave or she'd have to take them. Afterward we wondered what would have happened if they'd tried to search the computer. Would they have had anyone who could have figured out how to log in? We left without finding out, with hundreds of images awaiting compression.Grainy videos are available for download...
Posted by Kevin on November, 11 2004 at 06:22 AM
