Over in Britishland, a young mother named Nicola Bulley has gone missing while taking her dog for a walk one evening a couple weeks ago. There have been all sorts of theories (coupled with the usual bollocks from people unrelated to the case who have nothing better to do with their lives): that she fell into a river along her walk, that she was kidnapped, that she decided to do a runner (leaving behind her two small children), and so on.
No investigations have turned up anything at all — the Britcops are getting all sorts of crap for their slipshod investigation — and her disappearance has remained to date a complete mystery.
(Here’s a sample of articles on the topic.)
Here’s what disturbs me about all this. For a small village, there sure must be a boatload of CCTV cameras around. Here’s a photo map of the “blind spots” in the CCTV coverage — which are tiny — which means that there’s an awful lot of geography that’s apparently covered, and isn’t a blind spot.
To me, this means that surveillance cameras Over There are practically ubiquitous. One might expect, perhaps, that densely-populated urban areas might have cameras all over the place (as seen in the gloomy 2006 Red Road movie); but in a remote little village like St. Michaels-On-Wyre?
I bet it’s not just in Britishland, either; it’s probably growing Over Here, too; and that gives me the creeps.
Of course, if anyone has proof that this is not the case, then I stand corrected.