Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

£50 000 worth of #windows busted by *one* angry man in #Kent - unclear what the motive was for this (nothing was stolen from either business), and it doesn't seem the businesses (a motor factors and a funeral director) were targeted for their nature (it may simply be they were in a corner of town that has an easy getaway route, as the Police turned up fairly quickly according to Facebook reports about same incident)

#vandalism #crime SE #England

The #CCTV these days is of really good quality, as sharp as ITV's own news cameras!

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-03-27/cctv-captures-hooded-man-smashing-shop-windows-with-hammer

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Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE4h ago
@vfrmedia A quarter of a century ago a CCTV system was demonstrated to me. This involved starting with a wide angle view of a traffic queue stopped at a red traffic light, then zoomed in until we could read the headline on the newspaper inside the cab of the truck at the front of the queue.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK4h ago

@TimWardCam although the actual sharpness was then limited by bandwidth of the analogue circuits a lot of CCTV still used (at the same time I was working for a company which amongst other things supplied the routing equipment for the CCTV control rooms, and it was still all standard definition).

Nowadays every shop has HD cameras (although they still can't easily identify someone in a black hoodie and tracksuit when every other lad in Kent is already wearing one)