My new big brother

CCTV means ClosedCircuitTeleVision. Next time you're in London, take a quick look around and you'll probably see a camera or a mirrored globe pointing in your general direction. On average, if you tool around London for a day, you'll be caught on these monitors 300x.

That's not to say that someone is watching and monitoring those feeds at all times, but it is an incredible statistic that would bother me more if I were doing more inappropriate/illegal things like I probably should be.

This week they announced that in certain trouble spots, they'll be adding audio to the CCTV setups -- not to capture sound, but to provide immediate scolding for those who choose to litter, vandalize or otherwise act as a nuisance as defined by the state. I'm expecting these sorts of warnings:

"Sir, you've dropped your shawarma wrapping. Please pick it up and dispose of it in the nearest rubbish or grit container. Many thanks."

"If I could bother you not to snog that lass if she's not wanting to be snogged that would be brilliant."

"Kindly stop smashing the Tottenham hooligans with those homemade spiked bats. Just for a bit. Cheers."

There's even talk of using a child's voice in some of the reprimands to shame the person into stopping whatever it is they're doing.

I was thinking that maybe a cool movie concept would be to have a film that was a mix of actual filmed scenes and soundless scenes from CCTV. The viewer would have to piece the off-air interactions together with the publicly broadcasted ones to understand the story. But it would be pretty unnerving how much of it you could understand just by watching the closed circuit feeds.