Intergalactic alien mounts protest against privacy invasion by CCTV cameras

An irate UK citizen, sick and tired of the snooping by police CCTV cameras into his flat, asked an Intergalactic Alien to help mount a protest against this invasion of privacy. And it worked a treat.

Bournemouth resident James Sanger said he only realized exactly how much his privacy was being invaded after he saw the police cameras scanning and tracking him as he walked from the petrol station to his flat. "I then realized that they could see right into my flat and even watch everything I was doing. This was a gross invasion of my privacy." He pointed out that his town was the first in the UK where the police installed CCTV cameras in 1986. And now there are some 4-million cameras countrywide, watching UK citizens constantly while they go about their ordinary, every-day activities. In fact a citizen strolling through central London 's shopping district runs a good chance of being recorded at least 300 cameras by CCTV cameras. Sanger said in his case, he realised that this was clearly the way the police were actually profiling him for no apparent reason at all. He decided to 'hoist them with their own petard,' by devising an innovative citizen protest... He created an Intergalactic Alien, 8 foot tall -- his buddy, with flippered feet, grotesque protuberances and slouching gait -- to stroll around the city centre at night and peer into the store-front cameras. His unique protest action certainly made the point - and even the evening TV-news. And the police were there in a flash...