Sexual predator caught thanks to camphone
By Ryan Block 
posted Sep 24th 2004 8:03AM
posted Sep 24th 2004 8:03AM
There are some people who say "it could have been any kind of camera!" but come on, this wouldn't be the first time
a cellphone saved someone's life (okay, okay, so
that was different). A Conneticut woman used her cameraphone (they didn't say which kind) to snap a shot of
the car belonging to her alleged sexual assailant; the suspect was promptly snapped up and tossed in the clink. Way to
go, camphones!
[Via The Mobile
Weblog]
It's good to see that people are using more common sense nowadays when it comes to chasing down sexual assailants, hit and run peeps, and etc. Taking a picture not only produce evidence, but it also puts you out of harms way. Would you want to chase a bank robber who has a gun? I'd rather take a picture of them and the getaway car.
I'm amazed she had time to take out her phone, get to the camera app, compose, and shoot a pic before the guy was gone. When I had a cam phone, by the time I was ready to take a pic the moment had passed ;-(
Well this isn't the first time that this has happened. I recall there being a story within the last year or so about a girl in Japan that had been groped on the subway and took a picture of the individual and managed to get him arrested.
Some cameraphones have the primary command for one of their softbuttons set to start up the camera mode.