Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/watch-a-delivery-person-barely.html
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Apparently, July 20, 2019 was that fellow’s lucky day.
It was a lucky day for me, too, as I also was not run down by a huge truck.
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WTF why are the pointing a camera at a monitor for a clearly digital video?
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The level of panic shown by the folks in this video is much lower than I would expect.
Shock
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Yeah, that’s a good point.
That woman took advantage of the distraction to steal a small child from the back of the truck!
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It’s not uncommon for posts here to be a cell phone recording of security camera footage.
I’d guess for some reason transferring the correct portion of the security footage is a hassle and so the cell phone is just a quick work around.
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Or this sort of thing happens all the time.
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Did you see the look in his eyes, crazy man, crazy.
Brakes? We don’t need no steenkin brakes.
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People don’t know how to extract files from security systems.
Actually, if someone shows you a playback on a security system, filming it on your phone is a really good idea because security systems will often, by default, delete the oldest video when they run out of space.
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Also, some security systems use a proprietary format that requires their own player that will not easily export to a file that can be uploaded.
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Right. Intentionally useless
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And the truck only destroyed some of the stuff he was dropping off!
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shoulda pulled his truck into the turn off and not block the main fairway. Still, lucky to complain about it no doubt.
That seems unlucky, that the delivery got (partially) ruined.
I kind of imagine that his day went like this:
“There’s a truck heading right for you!”
“That’s bad!”
“But it just missed you!”
“That’s good!”
“But it hit your delivery!”
“That’s bad!”
“But most of it is okay!”
“That’s good!”
“But you’re still held liable for the part that got destroyed!”
“That’s bad!”
etc.
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Oh those Taoist.
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As a professional embedded software engineer I am qualified to answer this. Device software tends to suck really bad from a usability stand point. Unless a feature is important enough to become a bullet point on the box label, it’s probably not going to get a lot of attention from an engineering department.
Once the suckercustomer purchases a device, our obligation to make that device useful seems to end. Besides we’re probably already working on Mk III of a product by the time anyone buys and reviews the first version.
