How? Well, of course, use a wooden butter knife! Apparently the mortar between the bricks on the outside wall of Hedmark prison, built in 1863 is so fragile you can easily scrape it out, and since the inside consists of plaster board and insulation material it didn't take much for an Albanian, charged with drugs offenses, to work it out! In addition, the break out was caught on the prison's CCTV cameras, but no-one was watching at the time (well it was early in the morning!). It was only discovered that he had escaped over an hour afterwards. The police and prison staff are suitably embarrassed!
Of course, being Albanian, he probably has no idea of just how good and supportive Norwegian prisons are - he probably should have stayed inside. The following link from an article in The Guardian from February seems to confirm this!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people
Interesting reading.
A blog about daily life in Bergen, Norway. We moved here in 2010 due to work commitments (my husband's). Now having survived the first winter I feel able to write about the place without too much negativity! it is amazing how a lack of light, freezing temperatures and general horrid weather drain creativity!! I've learnt Norwegian, and work part time - so this really is living in Bergen!
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Filming in taxis?
A newspaper article today about filming in taxis caught my attention. What was it all about? Well, it is something that is being trialled in Oslo, and has nothing to do with trying to get yourself noticed for the next big TV 'wannabe' show!
The system consists of a camera in the back of the taxi, which can be activated by the customer. If you feel your taxi driver is not going to take you home straight away, but go via some out of the way, desolate area and attack you you can turn on the camera which will stream real time video direct to the taxi rank's office. It has been developed as a personal security system and will hopefully deter certain drivers taking advantage of their young female customers. The film will only be looked at if someone reports an incident to the police. Otherwise it will be deleted unseen.
Of course, the thought did cross my mind that if a taxi driver really wants to do something, I suppose he could just sabotage the camera so it doesn't record. Wonder if that is possible? You could get a bit paranoid about the whole thing I guess.
The inventors of the system actually started out with the idea that all taxi journeys would be filmed but once the Data Protection Agency heard of those plans the idea was scrapped. People don't want to be filmed when they have had too much to drink or a fight with their boyfriend or girlfriend - plenty of that on YouTube already! Although if the film is supposed to be deleted unseen surely that would not be a problem.
Data Protection have no problem with a system that allows the consumer to choose whether or not they want to be filmed. Hopefully, the little button that starts the camera rolling is easy to see and easy to press - alcohol does tend to have an effect on fine motor skills, as anyone who has tried to walk in a straight line or touch their nose with their index fingers (don't you just love the US police programmes when they stop drunk drivers!) might agree with!
The system consists of a camera in the back of the taxi, which can be activated by the customer. If you feel your taxi driver is not going to take you home straight away, but go via some out of the way, desolate area and attack you you can turn on the camera which will stream real time video direct to the taxi rank's office. It has been developed as a personal security system and will hopefully deter certain drivers taking advantage of their young female customers. The film will only be looked at if someone reports an incident to the police. Otherwise it will be deleted unseen.
Of course, the thought did cross my mind that if a taxi driver really wants to do something, I suppose he could just sabotage the camera so it doesn't record. Wonder if that is possible? You could get a bit paranoid about the whole thing I guess.
The inventors of the system actually started out with the idea that all taxi journeys would be filmed but once the Data Protection Agency heard of those plans the idea was scrapped. People don't want to be filmed when they have had too much to drink or a fight with their boyfriend or girlfriend - plenty of that on YouTube already! Although if the film is supposed to be deleted unseen surely that would not be a problem.
Data Protection have no problem with a system that allows the consumer to choose whether or not they want to be filmed. Hopefully, the little button that starts the camera rolling is easy to see and easy to press - alcohol does tend to have an effect on fine motor skills, as anyone who has tried to walk in a straight line or touch their nose with their index fingers (don't you just love the US police programmes when they stop drunk drivers!) might agree with!
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