I was in a cafe with my good friend in downtown Annapolis Royal and I thought it was a cozy spot to snuggle and sip our lattes,
till we both noticed some teen girl hiding behind her super tight gray hoodie, was filming us with her camera phone, then watching the video with her friend, everyone knew they were doing it, but did nothing. What’s the big deal we were 2 people in a cafe sipping coffee. WE have to leave because it was annoying us, then a bunch of kids follow us to our car.
They need to know That filming and taking someones picture without their consent is illegal, I could report their asses.
Thanks for ruining a perfect evening for us You bunch of Ass Hats.
Karma will Get you back. —I will scope YouTube for my video appearance
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
I agree with the fact that these kids are douchcanoes, but…*is* it illegal if you’re in a public place? I’m just wonderin’
And why didn’t you tell them to fuck off? Or relieve them of their phone and turn it off for them. That seems tres bizarre…
So which debate begins first? “Right to privacy ” or “Proper care and usage of karma”
You were in a public place so they weren’t breaking any laws. It’s still douchebaggish behaviour nonetheless.
Can the LTWWB editor please just edit out any references to Karma before putting these up? I’m sure we’d all appreciate it.
As for the Bitch itself… OP: If someone was taking the time to film you, laugh at the video with their friends, and followed you out to your car, did you stop to think that there might be something comical about your appearance the warranted filming?
I’d check your barn door if I were you.
Or you may want to look for a video of yourself on http://www.latfh.com
It’s because you’re f—ing hideous … orrrr incredibly attractive. You pick.
you’d be surprised how giving them their own taste would work…
whip out your camera phone and start filming them.
don’t stop, especially when they get tired of it and give up…
us adults have infinitely more patience than any kid these days.
its not just with teens that its a problem. Apparently there is an individual on campus who has been filming women inappropriately with his camera phone (or very small flip HD video camera) and posting them online. As if the sleepercreeper wasn’t enough…
Yep, skinny, we’ve been through THAT one on a previous bitch too. Douchenozzles. I like your idea z3.
z3…While I was reading your bitch I totally thought you were about to say whip something else out and give them something film…I don’t know where my minds going but I started laughing before even finishing your comment. I don’t think I’m getting enough sleep.
OP this sucks – take z’s advice….it will startle the hell out of the little buggers.
I disagree with the ‘public place’ rationale. The behaviour of the teens verges on stalking. Filming and following someone is not acceptable. It may be a public place but one’s person is not public, peelers excepted. There’s a big difference between strangers appearing randomly in the background of someone’s photos and purposely filming a stranger for your own purposes.
RC… it’s all the personal bitches lately that have you going straight to the gutter.
I don’t think trying to retaliate to kids by getting arrested is such a good idea…
Agreed. privates are for private and everything that goes along with them. Can’t we just talk about Christmas decorations or something?
While it is creepy, what they did is in no way illegal. When you’re in public (essentially anywhere but your own home) there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. They are well within their rights to photograph or film you. How do you think television crews do their job??? It most certainly makes the people you’re talking about jerks, but not criminals.
“she comes and goes, she comes and goes”—> tag
Here is a good rundown of the laws in Canada regarding being photographed in public:
“Anyone can be photographed in a public place without their consent except when they have secluded themselves in places where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy such as dressing rooms, restrooms, medical facilities, etc.”
Speaking of creepy….I believe I came across the perfect product for the Sleep Watcher!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TtbpVS2kPI
The police could go undercover and set up a store that sells these and as soon as someone comes in to buy one, sneakily inject them with a tracking device! I’m sure Cinco makes those as well ;D
If this happened to me I’d be tempted to pull out my camera and film them filming me filming them filming me…
Hehehe!
Yeah you could report their asses. But what would you say?
“Officer I’d like to report a young girl who took a video of my snuggle buddy and I with her phone in a public cafe. Then when we left, some other young people walked in the same direction as us for a while… I believe these two incidents are related.”
Even if you happened to bump into an officer at the time this was happening they’d just ask the kids if they were following you/filming you, the kids would say “no” and that’d be the end of it.
One time when someone ‘got in your face’, which is basicly what your saying OB. I would as would my friends at the time, ask you to to go away…fuck off basicly. If you continued to be an asshole, it quite often would come to a confrontation & that would either have both parties going their seperate ways ,or someone getting their asses kicked.
I miss the old days .
I would have got up, walked over to her table, taken the phone out of her hand and promptly deposited it in her full coffee cup ( if she had no coffee then I would have bought her one ). If she had manners she would still have a phone.
I’m with Juggalo Harper. It’s not anybody else’s responsibility to stop stupid kids from photographing you and your latte. You have a spine; use it.
according to the brianiacs at kings journalism, if you’re in public you’re fair game. let the abuse begin
She’s a rural kid – possibly trying to make you react so their bored asses could post it to You Tube, hopefully go viral and become filthy rich enough to tell Fort Anne to kiss her shiny shit shute. You can only dress a kid in period costume for soooo long.
Coffee shops are private establishments, not public space, no? Am I wrong? Either way, OP should have walked up and said, “we have noticed that you have been filming us, and we would like an explanation as to why. We would like you to understand that it was making us feel very uncomfortable.” BEFORE leaving the cafe.
All the OP has to say is “Annapolis Royal”…..that explains it. The locals down there go all awe crazed when they see new meat in town. They dream of the day they can expand they gene pool.
I find it difficult to sympathize with anyone who is “snuggling and sipping lattes” in a “cafe”. It’s a diner that serves coffee, you’re sitting in it on chairs, and it’s &%@$! coffee with f**king milk, for Chrissakes.
Thanks for caring. I feel better anyway.
You’re kind of right, notsoNTH.
Is is a private establishment, but they open their doors and invite the public in, so it is therefore considered “public”.
Interestingly, the cafe (or any other establishment for that matter) is allowed to post signs saying that photography is prohibited.
Yeah, Happy Go Lucky pretty much sums it up.
Kids with cameras or phones with cameras can choose to use it for good or bad, but it seems that where this kid violated someone’s privacy it was used for the bad, has nothing to do with Karma but has everything to do with kids not having enough to do with their time and neglect for others privacy.
if it was me that was being filmed, then they would have to get mommy or daddy to buy them a new phone. simple enough.
Some asshat teenager tries to film me and then post it on the net and i WILL walk over there and then heaven help them, someone better call 911.
brenda k., i think i’m in love with you, two great minds and all that.
People may have the ‘right’ to film me in public but I have the right to object to their doing it if I so choose.
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