San Francisco police suspended over video sketch – San Francisco is suspending 20 police officers who participated in video sketches portraying police ogling women, ducking emergency calls and going to a massage parlor on duty. I really wanted to see the videos, but they were already taken down from InsideTheSFPD.com by the time I found the site. Google nor any search engine had a cache on it either. Right now all the site has is a statement of thanking support.
After searching the web for a while, I did fine some of the videos, but they were videos of videos (meaning someone took a camera and shot at the computer screen):
Producer Responds To SFPD Video Scandal
SFPD Officers Suspended over Online Video
There seems to be 6 videos in all and several clips and several news stories and interviews with Daniel Horowitz, Andrew Cohen’s lawyer. Andrew Cohen was the person who filmed it. During the interview with Horowitz, lots of stuff he was arguing about didn’t really make sense and seemed actually more like stretching the truth. You should watch the interview and let me know what you think. I personally think the videos were in bad taste, although I agree there were some funny parts. But one of the stupidest arguments Horowitz was defending was the fact that Cohen did not distribute it publically and it was the mayor and police chief’s fault for blowing this beyond proportions. But all these videos were posted on a website and ONLY some of the police officers knew the web address. Personally, anything published on the world wide web that doesn’t require authentication should be considered releasing to public, even IF the search engines haven’t crawled to it yet. I actually found Horowitz trying to make his point a lot funnier than the videos themselves.
If anyone has access to the real video files or know where to get them, please let me know (by leaving a comment).
Random Crap:
Tortoise Adopts Baby Hippo (from deadlock) – I posted this story from Yahoo! some time back but this one has more cute pictures so I thought I’d share again.
The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever (from /.) – I’m actually not too satisfied with this list. Most of the items listed were just USB jump drives in weird shapes. I’d rather see the top 10 weirdest groups of USB devices, so usb storage may be one group and usb lamps or fans or phone chargers could be other groups. There was this really tiny USB flash drive that was interesting: iDisk Diamond, even in your ear. It’s so tiny, it smaller than my finger print! Quite easy to lose also I presume.
Car crash, heavy traffic turn out Christmas light show (from deadlock) – Sheriff’s deputies asked the owner who lit up his house with 25,000 Christmas lights synched to music to turn off the display after a traffic accident Tuesday night. Deerfield Twp. resident Carson Williams agreed to shut down his holiday decorations indefinitely. Too bad the musical christmas lights are no longer up for display. The display caught attention across the nation on network TV and on the Internet because the lights on the Williams house and filling their yard are synchronized by computer with music broadcast to car radios. There are three songs in the 12-minute display: Frosty the Snowman by the Jackson 5; God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood and Wizards of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Does anyone know if the other 2 songs have been captured and placed online? I’d really like to see it.
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (押忍！闘え！応援団) (from Microsoft Newsgroup) – It appears to be a new game for the Nintendo DS that seems to be a cheerleading game. You can read IGN’s review on it. Check out this video of the gameplay. At first I thought this was another one of those DDR spin offs like what they have for drums and guitars and dancing nowadays, but once I figured it was for the DS, the video made a lot more sense when those bubbles and arrows popped out. Not exactly sure how drawing those lines and connecting those dots really reflect cheerleading, but I heard it was a lot of fun. The song they’re using in the video is actually Full Metal Alchemist opening.