Many people, in our post “1984″ world worry about how they are being watched by video surveillance, everywhere they go, but there may be an advantage to some of this surveillance. Rarely, are there ever any positive stories about video surveillance. This story illustrates, that video surveillance can have a positive result, and possibly save your reputation. What these girls did, not only set back the cause against “actual” abuse of women around the world, it was plain stupid. Apparently the camera was not hidden, and was clearly identified by a sign in the cab. It still amazes me, to this day, how people, particularly law enforcement personnel, continue to act out against their own interest, when they know they are being observed. If you really think about it, there can be many positive uses of these cameras, if you are willing to accept they are there. Suppose you are the victim of a road rage incident, or someone completely hits your car, and claims that it was completely YOUR fault. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull some footage off a remote traffic cam, and say– screw you! Reputation, restored.
EDMONTON — Video cameras are in some Edmonton taxis to protect cabbies’ lives, but Soner Yasa’s saved his reputation. Yasa was falsely accused of sexual assault by four 19-year-old women he gave a ride to in April 2006. The women made such a scene, that at one point his car was surrounded by a crowd who thought they had cornered a pervert, Yasa says.
But when the cops arrived, all he had to do was show them the video of the cab ride and he was spared an avalanche of humiliation. Now Yasa is suing all four women for $60,000 each for mental and emotional stress.
“I didn’t touch a hair on their heads, but if I had been charged, what would my wife have thought, or my two kids? “I would have been in the media as an accused rapist. It could have cost me my job and then who would hire me?”
His case has not been proven in court, but Yasa’s statement of claim says four women jumped “uninvited” into his taxi. Just before reaching the destination, his claim says, the women assaulted him and jumped from the cab without paying the $13 fare.
Once out of the car, the women “knowingly and with malicious intent, falsely accused Yasa of sexually assaulting them as the reason for leaving the vehicle.”
Read the rest of the story @ Video saves cabbie’s reputation | Calgary & Alberta | News | Calgary Sun.
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