More than two years after many of Bangkok’s public security cameras were exposed as fakes, city officials are daring people to mock them now.
Every dummy CCTV unit around Bangkok has been replaced with a real camera, according to officials with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
Acting Governor Amorn Kijchawengkul said there are currently 47,064 cameras in Bangkok. Daring anyone to prove him wrong, Amorn said anyone who can verifiably spot a dummy CCTV in town will receive a THB100,000 reward.
Just don’t point out the ones that aren’t working – the 7,000 or so nonfunctional cameras aren’t included in the bounty hunt. They’re real cameras, he said, they just don’t have power from the Metropolitan Electricity Authority.
The report did not specify who or what would pay the prize, but we hope he wasn’t talking about the public’s tax purse. After all, it was never adequately explained why the city spent so much installing bogus cameras after two Bangkok governors stressed their importance.
The project is being completed by a private contractor responsible for installing the cameras and connecting them to the grid, he added. The electricity authority will have to determine how to wire them all in the seven months remaining to finish the project.
Any crime which happens under the very real but very non-working cameras? Amorn told the press to get their facts right and not create any understanding, Sanook reported.
We get it. They’re not dummies. They’re just useless.
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