I’m actually super proud that we haven’t had any Internet Lawyers concern trolling in this thread over ‘liability.’
However, my guess is that faces are blurred to avoid just that!
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Because they don’t care. It is to petty for them. I had my bike stolen in Seattle and found it on craigslist later. I had reported the theft, and gave them the information to identify the bike already. I called up to let them know I had found my bike for sale, and the same person had listed hundreds of bikes for sale in the last couple of weeks. I could 100% identify the bike, as when they stole it the thing had old college registration stickers from the 80’s on it, and was missing a fender as I had been working on it when it was stolen (someone seriously took it from outside my house while I went inside to get tools). It was the exact bike, down to the new parts I had been restoring it with, the scratches, someones phone number etched into the downtube, all the stickers etc. All they did was replace my pink bar tape.
The Seattle PD told me they wouldn’t do anything about it as it wasn’t worth their time, and the best they could do is come within 1-2 hours if I went there to buy it, confronted the thief, and called it in. They then told me they did not recommend that and to just let my bike go. This was a seller who obviously was dealing in hundreds of stole bikes.
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This. Plus the high incidence of thievery. Two reasons I don’t even want an expensive bike.
I think you’ll like this story: http://blog.mattgoyer.com/archives/2012/07/26/how-i-recovered-my-stolen-bike-a-year-later/
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Hah, that is basically what I tried to do. I had a friend on call to drive me nearby with a truck so I could test ride it and just leave with it in the bed (it was a long ride back to my place). Unfortunately the craigslister did not respond to my inquiry, and the post went down later that day. It was a old bike but had a lugged frame in great condition with mostly new mechanics so the listing didn’t last long.
I used to do the opposite.
Very occasionally, I would have run into a shop for a minute and I didn’t want to bother locking up my bike. Before going in I would release the brakes. I figured if someone tried to steal the bike they would end up running into a wall or something. (Now that I think about it - thank goodness no one stole the bike and then sailed into traffic.)
Oh. That’s disappointing. I had hoped their faces had blurred in real life from the shame of it.
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Since it’s still tied up to the tree, I am supposing that technically it was never stolen.
That’s great! So if our bikes get stolen, we can just take some bike cop’s ride and watch them pout. Lazy fuzz!
I must admit, I don’t understand this. Who is liable for what?
If this were in the US, the producers of the show would likely be liable for any injury caused to the would-be thieves. See, e.g., Katko v. Briney.
But fortunately for those of us who enjoy watching would-be bike thieves flop on their faces and/or testicles, Brazilian TV producers don’t appear to have such concerns.
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Well, the Katko v. Briney entry you linked specifies that it is using deadly force to stop theft which is not justified, such as a shotgun. Certainly not the same thing as saying that people in the US are liable for any injury whatsoever caused in the course of a robbery. Of course, I don’t doubt that many thieves would still try to sue for lesser injuries. Thanks for the link! I had read this before but forgotten.
But I suspect that this is a different kind of liability than was being discussed with regards to the blurring of the would-be-thieves features, since this would not make any difference if we were talking (in the US, at least) about boobytrap laws. I thought that @beschizza was saying that whoever recorded the video would have some sort of legal liability if it was posted without blurring. That’s what puzzles me. For instance, Gurgle Maps blurs IIRC people’s heads and license plates, but they do this to everybody. Whereas with this video, it’s only a select few who get blurred.
Maybe it’s like the pixelation in Japanese porn.They might have squid genitals violating their faces or something!
This one, too.
Other way around. Squid genitals and tentacles are so popular in hentai because actual p-in-v isn’t allowed. That’s how censorship is avoided. “It’s not a penis entering a vagina during intimate consensual funtime! That’d be illegal to show! No, it’s a tentacle non-consensually raping then laying eggs in her uterus, silly. That’s perfectly okay to show in detail.”
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Certainly not. But it’s not just about deadly force. It’s about whether it’s proportional/reasonable force. Is boobytrapping a bike to injure the would-be thief a reasonable way to combat theft (as opposed to, say, just locking the bike)? The fact that it’s clearly done for entertainment value does not help the producers’ case.
Yes. The blurring is likely to avoid defamation lawsuits from people who claim they thought it was really their own bike and now the TV has gone and told everyone they are a thief.
But enough of this legal crap. Let’s watch some more bike thieves play “Ow! My Balls!”
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You got that quote wrong.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye; then it’s a scavenger hunt!
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Better idea: remotely-activated electro-shock ball-zapper built into the seat.
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I’m with papasan. I lost a beautiful Bianchi to a frikken stone hearted bike thief. I’ll boil the water, papasan.
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They can get releases from the others, but not the failed thieves. Only takes a few seconds.
The presenter running and shouting then giggling truly was the joy in this, I’d watch that guy’s show even though I only just about translated bicicleta.
On another note I watched a bit of the Alien Isolation game on Twitch a while ago and this Spanish guy was playing it in the dark and was so terrified that he was almost crying, it was wonderful. I didn’t understand much of what he said but the high pitched scared voice is universal, and that he marched on through this traumatising experience left me admiring his bravery.
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You’re on twitch too?! I didn’t know anyone else here was on twitch. I was so lonely!
Also yes, the presenter is hilarious.
I can read Spanish… at perhaps at a 2nd grade level (It’s been quite a while since I took those 3 years in a row of high school Spanish) but I get bits and pieces, and understanding spoken Spanish is worse. But I understand it better than Japanese which I’ve spent some time trying to teach myself. It’s much easier to read Japanese if you can read Kanji, and I can’t.
Jeeze, I used to love studying languages. I need to get a copy of Rosetta Stone or something and re-teach myself Spanish, then on to Japanese and Russian. Those are the three big languages I keep encountering besides English.
