Dispensary Corner 07 Oct 10
October 7, 2010
A NEW salvo in the battle against
shoplifting has been fired in the
UK this week, with the launch of
a scheme in which the public are
being enlisted to catch thieves.
The service employs “an army
of registered armchair snoopers,”
according to news service
Reuters, who are employed to
watch hours of CCTV footage at
home on their computers,
streamed from from cameras in
shops across the country.
The video is distributed by a
firm called Internet Eyes, which
gives the viewers up to £1000 in
cash if they are able to catch
someone in the act.
An alert button on the Internet
Eyes site sends an SMS to
shopkeepers alerting them of
suspicious behaviour, followed up
with an emailed image of the
crime in progress.
BELIEVERS win in survival stakes.
New research published in the
Liver Transplant journal suggests
that transplant patients who
believe in God have a higher rate
of survival than atheists.
In fact, the study which looked
at results from 179 liver
transplant patients found that
people with strong faith and who
actively sought help from above
were three times more likely to
live post-transplant.
According to head researcher,
Dr Franco Bonaguisi, “[the]
personal relationship between
the patient and God, regardless
of religious creed rather than
formal church attendance that
positively affected survival”.
KEEP perfect time with excrement.
A Swiss watch maker, Yvan
Arpa, has made headlines after
creating a line of watches set
with fossilised dinosaur faeces.
The 100 million year old poop
reportedly has a “magnificent
colour” and originated from a
herbivore (testing is currently in
process to find out which species).
With a price tag of 12,000
Swiss francs (AU$12,682) the
watches also come with toad skin
straps and are each guaranteed
to be unique.
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