Friday, December 22, 2006
Internet Video Garners Attention
You've just had a robbery. You know the robber was on your video and both you and the police want this person found. What do you do? You release it to the press and hope that many people will watch the news and look for the bad guy.
In Canada, police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton released a video on YouTube. They had a 12-second clip showing a murder suspect from a nightclub. The video is actually from a bank ATM machine. The video was downloaded 30,000 times and George Gallow, of Hamilton, turned himself in. He had a ball cap with "Joker" on it in the video.
Perhaps this will lead to a newer version of "Most Wanted" but on the Internet. The video is seen here. When I searched YouTube I searched on "Hamilton police" and had two pages of hits! The one discussed here is titled "JJ Hamilton Murder."
You've just had a robbery. You know the robber was on your video and both you and the police want this person found. What do you do? You release it to the press and hope that many people will watch the news and look for the bad guy.
In Canada, police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton released a video on YouTube. They had a 12-second clip showing a murder suspect from a nightclub. The video is actually from a bank ATM machine. The video was downloaded 30,000 times and George Gallow, of Hamilton, turned himself in. He had a ball cap with "Joker" on it in the video.
Perhaps this will lead to a newer version of "Most Wanted" but on the Internet. The video is seen here. When I searched YouTube I searched on "Hamilton police" and had two pages of hits! The one discussed here is titled "JJ Hamilton Murder."
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