Robbery averted via Beatles fan webcam in Liverpool

Britain, rightly or wrongly, is crawling with surveillance cameras for spying on its citizenry. But there's a whole class of cameras that could be used for security purposes that MI5/MI6 may have forgotten about: webcams. On Friday, a Beatles fan happened to be watching the webcam that's trained on Mathew Street, a nabe in Liverpool that houses the famous Cavern Club, where the Fab Four got their start. This astute fan watched from his home in Dallas as three perps were breaking into a sports store. He picked up his phone and called the Liverpool police -- and the suspects were arrested. Techmology 1 - 0 Crooks.

[Via Reuters]

[craig @ Aug 28th 2006 6:28AM]

Cool!

[Mr.Wednesday @ Aug 28th 2006 7:10AM]

Hooray for techmology!!!

[Kris @ Aug 28th 2006 8:22AM]

Techmology is what they have in the UK. Don't you watch Da Ali G Show?

[David @ Aug 28th 2006 10:10AM]

It was on BBC news in north west england.

[Wolfrain @ Aug 28th 2006 10:56AM]

All rise for Techmology

[chris @ Aug 28th 2006 11:38AM]

Baller, thats about all i can say.

[ben @ Aug 28th 2006 12:21PM]

Sweet diggity for techmology.

Why does everybody harp on misspellings?

[Braintrust @ Aug 28th 2006 1:08PM]

Don't mess with Texas.

[psxp @ Aug 28th 2006 1:44PM]

hmmmm.... techmology..... I like techmology

[jake smith @ Aug 29th 2006 10:50AM]

techmology. i'd be devamastated if i'd spelt that wrong.

[Peter @ Aug 30th 2006 12:02PM]

Excellent `Detective` work from the U.S.A for such a loverly city as Liverpool.

Liverpudlian Ex-pat in London England......

I`m actually not that far really distance wise but very well done to `that man` in Dallas.

Liverpool salutes you!

and for your honesty.....from a city that is true.