<story><title>A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbutler</author><text>When I worked at a water utility we would occasionally have people breaking into our remote sites like water towers either to vandalise them or climb the assets for the view.&lt;p&gt;When you just want people off your site ASAP we found providing the operators with remote loudspeakers and allowing them to say &amp;quot;Hey we can see you, we&amp;#x27;ve called the police&amp;quot; was a very effective way to convince anyone that was trespassing to leave.&lt;p&gt;Though we did lose a few cameras when kids decided to throw rocks at the CCTV system before they left...</text></comment>
<story><title>A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnnn/a-cctv-company-is-paying-remote-workers-in-india-to-yell-at-armed-robbers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thatguy0900</author><text>I was thinking this would be like home security cameras and how fun it would be to yell at home thieves all day. What a depressing reality it&amp;#x27;s just berating your own convenience store staff for taking a soda.</text></comment>