A man tried to rob a sex shop in California…and the employees fought him off with thrown sex toys.
Yes, there is video.
Even if the guy evades arrest, he’s never going to live this one down.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
He met with some stiff resistance.
I’m sure there will be a probe.
“Some have greatness thrust upon them.”
love to know what she was saying!
uncle frogy
Probably not a recommended deescalation technique, but more effective than the seemingly-usual
policegoon technique of shoot, shoot, and shoot moar. Encouragingly, apparently the fool with the gun was so discombobulated he left the shop with his face uncovered and was photographed by an outside security camera — so he might be caught.(Of course, if that gun was real and loaded (neither ot which is currently known), and the fool had some idea and inclination to actually use it, that was incredibly dangerous.)
how deliciously ironic. That someone that would deserve the denigrating slur, “dildo”, gets thwarted by hurled dildos when trying to rob a sex toy store.
would be the thought bubble I’d put on that cartoon character.
*snort*
On one hand, they’re lucky that he didn’t shoot them.
On the other hand, he’s lucky that they didn’t start throwing the stainless steel and tempered glass toys at him.
You must have waited your whole life to write that post title.
Make love, not war.
Cute, but it feels staged. Those clearly aren’t security cameras, as they pan to follow the action, and the first has a jittery hand-held feel, yet it’s showing from above, like a faux security cam shot; and they have shots from completely different angles, both panning — somebody with a cellphone would be unlikely to move around taking videos of a guy with a gun in the middle of a robbery. Also, the aggression of the staff seems vastly absurd with a gun in their face. They’re probably paid $8.50 an hour, and that kind of store isn’t exactly busy most hours of the day, so it’s a really bad cash register to target, compared to, say, a Subway or a convenience store…..so why get shot over forking over the $98 in the register? And would all three of the staffers all share that martyr syndrome, screaming at a big guy with a gun? I don’t buy it. Still, great for punchlines!
PZT camera (my added emboldening): “An innovation to the PTZ camera is a built-in firmware program that monitors the change of pixels generated by the video clip in the camera. When the pixels change due to movement within the cameras field of view, the camera can actually focus on the pixel variation and move the camera in an attempt to center the pixel fluctuation on the video chip. This process results in the camera following movement. […]”
Then there are also the matters of the police’s statement about the outside camera, and the comments by one of two staff about why she reacted the way she did (UPI).
@anbheal, I see that you failed to follow the linked news story that PZ provided.
Apparently, the employee who first started yelling at him believed the gun to be fake and decided that she didn’t want to play.
Doofus then departed, with his face uncovered for the surveillance camera in the front of the store.
#10, #11
More likely, the camera is simply one that can be manually operated by whoever is in the security room.
I actually own a half dozen PTZ cameras, which were staged in various places in my father’s home while I was caring for him during his battle with dementia.
Higher end cameras, which were far from available to my budget can automatically track a person moving around and mine had software which could track human sized objects around the room (which one could further tune for smaller or larger moving things, such as tuning in or out family pets) and even have automatic event recording.
On the lower end cameras, movement tended to be a bit jerky, on the upper end, much smoother motion tracking.
10, 11 and 13, you are all wrong.
The hand held, shaky nature is because someone used a phone to record the monitor of the NVR or DVR that held the surveillance footage and they were zooming in on parts of it. It’s not easy to export video off of some of the older systems, or whoever took this footage just doesn’t know how to do it.
See the bigger picture here:
He sure cocked that one up.
*sorry for the embed, I forgot that’s a no no round these parts and how to link without embedding for that matter.