I don't know if this is just a UK trend.
Over here we have these guys who call themselves auditors, the basic idea is that they have the right to film in public so they test security and the police on their knowledge of the law in this regard by pretty much going to businesses or government buildings and filming from the outside. Or just walking down the street filming anyone.
A more skeptical view of this is that they are actually just after getting youtube views by creating volatile situations on purpose for content. Baiting people into an argument.
I can sympathise with the auditors in some way because I've been threatened by the security of places before in some really irrational ways, and one time it was because I was taking a picture of a street sign out in public and a guard walked out of his workplace to try and threaten to steal my phone which genuinely confused me.
On the other hand I wouldn't like to be randomly followed down the street with a camera even if it is legal.
Over here we have these guys who call themselves auditors, the basic idea is that they have the right to film in public so they test security and the police on their knowledge of the law in this regard by pretty much going to businesses or government buildings and filming from the outside. Or just walking down the street filming anyone.
A more skeptical view of this is that they are actually just after getting youtube views by creating volatile situations on purpose for content. Baiting people into an argument.
I can sympathise with the auditors in some way because I've been threatened by the security of places before in some really irrational ways, and one time it was because I was taking a picture of a street sign out in public and a guard walked out of his workplace to try and threaten to steal my phone which genuinely confused me.
On the other hand I wouldn't like to be randomly followed down the street with a camera even if it is legal.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
