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Warning: Video Surveillance In Use

Warning: Video Surveillance in Use

By Elton Camp

Those fuzzy, unfocused videos of crime
To identify robbers aren’t worth a dime

Their low quality images are the excuse
Why, to catch crooks, they’re of little use

They show vague shapes moving about
That they have much value I surely doubt

The images they give are poor, not even fair
All I can tell is that it’s a man, not a bear

Far better technology most surely does exist
But it’s something high risk stores did miss

Therefore, video camera use at the corner store
Won’t stop any robber coming back for more

So little stores might as well take the sign down
It makes a crook laugh when he comes around



And so a mask he doesn’t even both to wear 
Although he knows that the camera is there

Copyright © Elton Camp




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