Can Law Enforcement spy on people camping?

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:38 pm

Igneouss wrote:.. I have yet to hear a story of someone that got busted but wasn't guilty of something (usually dumb). You hear lots of stories but there are really very few verifiable reports of unresonable arrests/citations. ..

are you talking in general, or at the event?

Igneouss · Post by **Igneouss** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:31 pm

At BM.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:53 pm

Here, check out the Pershing County Sheriffs website, turn up your SPEAKERS LOUD.. IT ROCKS.

http://www.pershingcounty.net/sheriff/sheriff.htm

the "Jail Division" sounds like a camp I walked by last year.

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:27 am

at BM?

Igneouss wrote:.. I have yet to hear a story of someone that got busted but wasn't guilty of something (usually dumb). You hear lots of stories but there are really very few verifiable reports of unresonable arrests/citations. ..

then who have you contacted and spoken with? i am really curious what sources you're basing that on, since the people directly involved are usually advised by thier legal council not to speak about it. so i have my doubts because i did a couple of high-level passes myself.

corpuscle68 · Post by **corpuscle68** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:50 pm

I'd be curious to know what a parbolic mic could really pick up on the playa, with its legendary noise. Are they affected by ambient noise? As for night vision... image intensifiers. While they have surely improved since I peered through them for Uncle Sam, the flashes and bright lights that dot the playa I would think make these difficult. Likewise if you are near any kind of fire art, would even modern thermal sights work? Inquiring minds want to know! Has anyone looked through modern night vision stuff on the playa?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:08 pm

corpuscle68 wrote:I'd be curious to know what a parbolic mic could really pick up on the playa, with its legendary noise. Are they affected by ambient noise?

Ifg you don't think that they have computer programs to clean that up--I'm sure they can get stuff off new york city streets for instance.

corpuscle68 wrote: Inquiring minds want to know! Has anyone looked through modern night vision stuff on the playa?

P, G, & E could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.

The Chinese · Post by **The Chinese** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:44 am

theCryptofishist wrote: Ifg you don't think that they have computer programs to clean that up--I'm sure they can get stuff off new york city streets for instance.

Well, yes and no. I work in sound and have doen some restoration of audio, it aint' all that easy. With the thump thump going on it would be tough. New york traffic noise is constant and steady. Teh noise at BM is unsteady and multi freq. It would much harder to filter out.

Just be smart.

SageV · Post by **SageV** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:58 pm

spectabillis wrote:
Sage Venkman wrote: Of all the folk at Burning Man, they are the one who deserve to have their heads under a jackboot..
this a sock account?

Nope, just stirring the pot.

SageV · Post by **SageV** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:58 pm

spectabillis wrote:
Sage Venkman wrote: Of all the folk at Burning Man, they are the one who deserve to have their heads under a jackboot..
this a sock account?

Nope, just stirring the pot.