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By Stanley P. Gershbein
Brooklyn Daily
Warning: wherever you go, whatever you do, make sure you don’t do something you are not supposed to do. You never know when you are being videotaped.
Down in Georgia a 17- year-old high-school senior who is slated to receive a full athletic scholarship will have to defer his award for one year. After being warned not to touch a teacher, an attractive one in particular, he came up behind her and gave her a hug with his cheeks and lips allegedly touching the back of her neck. Authorities at the school have suspended him for a year and he will not be graduating this June. How were the hearing officers so certain of the youngster’s guilt? Simple. He was caught on camera.
Dec. 12, 2014 late at night, when they were supposed to be on duty, several cars from the Cleveland Police Department, pulled up near each other. The officers jumped out and started packing snow. A snowball fight ensued and at this moment some of the good citizens of the Cleveland community are whining about the activity. So what if these men were having a bit of fun. What’s the big deal if they relieved a bit of stress with a two minute snowball fight? Their life is in danger at all times and taking a well-deserved 120 seconds out for a laugh or two did no harm.
My guess is that they really weren’t using their brains. If they did they would have realized that almost everyone in the immediate world has a cellphone with a built in camera.
The tape of this winter battle went viral and now all the “what if” questions are being asked. “What if there was an emergency and they were needed?” But there wasn’t and let us just let them off with a warning. Okay? Every cop in Cleveland now knows that there are always cameras around.
A man in Washington is suing the nation’s capitol’s Metrorail because he claims he was injured when he slipped on a banana peel in the system’s elevator. Let’s go to the videotape. The footage clearly shows him first throwing down a banana peel, then stepping on it and theatrically falling. This scam artist is now being charged with fraud and whatever else the district attorney can find. Nice try.
And of course, if you are going to tell a lie, doing so in front of a camera will provide the world with a permanent record that may come back to haunt you Some of us older folks recall, “I am not a crook.” Then, how about, “I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
And, of course, there is the number-one lie told to us by the Liar-in-Chief that was on video tape more than 30 times, “If you like your plan … blah, blah, blah.”
I am StanGershbein@Bellsouth.net asking everyone to join me — “Smile! You’re on candid camera!”