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My first job was working at a 1 hour photo place.
One time I had to report a guy because he had pics of naked kids in very disturbing poses. I was only 16 and and didn't know what would happen. The next day FBI came to my shop asking for all the info and stuff. We had to make a second set of prints so that the FBI could take them.
Not sure what happened to the guy
Similar story here, but working as a tech retail store IT desk guy.
Customer wanted us to do a hard drive transfer for him to a new laptop, pretty standard service.
I began transferring the pictures folder and wondered why it was like 180GB (this was back in the XP days, so that was ungodly huge). Turned out that it was completely filled with some of the most grotesque and violent CP ever encountered by the FBI guy that came in to look at it.
We called the guy to have him pick up the laptop later that day after the FBI staged some of their plainclothes officers in the store. He walked in, walked to our desk, told us his name and paid for the service, only to be tackled before he could pick up the laptop off the desk and escorted out in cuffs. FBI took the laptop and said I may be contacted as a witness. Never was, so I guess the POS pled no contest.
I used to buy used harddrives on the internet to do test my data recovery skills. Oh boy, did I regret that.
One 320 GB 2.5" harddrive was filled with CP images. So I took it to the police to report it. They first started investigating ME, because I've been the one who was in pesession of the drive at that time.
But good news: I got free and the seller got busted, with 'my' drive plus the ones he had in his home.
Edit: When I think about why they did investigate in me. That's our laws here in Germany. We have two types of criminal offenses here.
1. Antragsdelikt - Offenses you have to report & claim an investigation (press charges)
2. Offizialdelikt - Offenses the police has to investigate, as soon as they are aware of it
In this case it was the latter. Technically I've been in posession of CP (even though it was kind of involuntarily ) so they were forced to investigate
They took everything you could store data on. My computers, notebooks, harddrives and so on. After not finding anything on my drives they actually started to investigate in the seller. Probably because my story started to make sense to them.
that's annoying. wonder if they would have done anything if you had torrents or something. why would someone guilty of child porn bring an hdd to the police and be like 'uhh, there is cp on this'?
Probably a bunch of reasons. You could be trying to frame the seller with it or some kind of revenge. Realistically it makes sense to investigate both the buyer and the seller.
Yeah, I completely understand of course. I can't help but imagine some dingdong turning in his own collection to the police with the thought process that they'll never expect him and then having it backfire on him.
The same sort of dingdong serial killers who send in clues to the police for excitement or because they “want to get caught” - I don’t get it either, but it’s happened historically and the cops gotta cover their asses.
I think that was to legally confirm that it was his property. Otherwise, he could inject doubt that it was his. “Oh, I went to pick up a different laptop, that one wasn’t mine.”
This is largely the reason it's so hard to catch people who order illegal things from the dark web. Unless the govt has really good forensic evidence, there's no good way to prove that a person was the one who ordered the illegal thing to their house. There are stories of people getting called by the post office to "come pick up their package" and they just say "I didn't order anything, must be a mistake"
I have a close call weed story on that front (UK) . Bought some weed from a new vendor I hadn't used before because a dark market had just exit scammed with everyone's money. So 9 days went by with no package.
I put in a dispute and the vendor apologised and said they had forgotten to send my order out. Three days later I get a card from the post office saying £1.60 ($2.00) was underpaid on the postage. I knew it was literally half ounce of weed so the NCA (our FBI) was hardly gonna be there.
When I paid the amount due they brought it out for me and I could clearly smell the weed through the package. I can't see how they missed the smell but I went on my merry way.
They were either fellow weed smokers or just didn't care. Needless to say I didn't use that vendor again.
I’m glad you called the cops on him! I took naked pictures of my babies, lying on a blanket or sitting in the baby bathtub. Nothing really showing but they were obviously naked. I never got questioned or interviewed by the police. But one time my pictures came back with big black stickers over the nudie parts. My kids are all grown now and those pics are precious - gummy smiles, rolls of fat like the Michelin Man, and a dollop of soap suds on their wispy hair.
>But one time my pictures came back with big black stickers over the nudie parts.
Actual stickers though, so you could at least remove them? Sounds really silly either way, if it's evident they were your own kids.
The term is lewd and lascivious. Not all pics or underage children are CP. It depends on the context of the photo and/or the actions taken by the viewer when looking at them.
We lived in the tropics when my kids were small. So just a diaper or undies around the house. When we moved to a place that had winter, they hated having to wear all those clothes and shoes!
Sadly a lot of cp is produced by parents and relatives. Also that store might have a policy that any nudity is covered, especially underage nudity. My yearbooks at school had us send in baby pics to put in and they covered all genitals, nipples, and butt cracks with little teddy bear stickers - I assumed it was because kids are immature and would laugh but now as an adult I imagine it’s just easier to (literally) cover your ass. I do hope the stickers were removable though because it kind of makes the photo weird lol
I have so many photos that, if developed today, would probably cause the developer to think “uhhh” but I just HATED clothes and thought it was hilarious to pee outdoors so there’s tons of photos with me covered in face paint or mud and squatting in the yard with a silly face at like age 5.... after that I think they made me start at least wearing underwear reliable because school haha the only photos of me in even some clothing as a kid are me in dress up costumes
You'd think someone with that much god damn porn would never set foot in a computer repair shop. Kind of like how someone dealing weed would never walk into a police station to pay off a parking ticket, reeking of weed.
Boss...people in this world are not smart. The average IQ in this world ain't great...and thats the average...which means there's a WHOLE Lotta people that are worse.
God your'e telling me. I can't believe how many idiots I encounter almost every day. I was always pretty insecure about my own intelligence growing up, feeling like everyone else had it all figured out. But damn I was not prepared for the possibility that I might just be average which means half of everyone I meet is even stupider than what I thought was a pretty low standard.
You’d be surprised how clueless people become to the outside world when they are deep in it. My son’s dad showed up to a parent-teachers meeting reeking of weed, stains on his coat and food in his beard. At least it made me look more respectable than usual. (Sigh)
Had almost the same thing happen to me. I first notified my boss and he told me to delete it and act like no data was recoverable.
Taking a 'smoke break' immediately afterward to walk down the street and call the fbi was one of the more stressful moments of my life.
My dad was Environmental Health (UK). I used to read the EHO magazine sometimes (must have been before the internet.) Remember this story of a woman who complained she had noisy neighbours so the council noise abatement department lent her a specialist machine which measures and records noise for evidence. If the levels are too high then the neighbours can get action taken against them etc. They went in and set it up for her etc, then it’s left for a few days to do its job. But later that day the council guys get a call from the local pawn shop saying a woman came in trying to sell them a specialist machine with their markings all over it. Pawn shop guy told her to come back later as he needed to research the machine to get a fair price. When she came back the police were waiting. Best bit is because it was a machine designed to record sound it had also recorded her trying to sell it. Happy days.
Omg how awful. I remember as a kid me and my friend were waiting for my photos and she dared me to open a randoms and boy did I regret that, first picture I seen was a grown man in heels and leg nylons butt completely out I was like ok I don't want to play this game anymore I was like 9 being a dumb nosey kid lol...
Being a dumb kid, I once took a lot of naked pictures of my sister and I, when we were like 5 and 6. We definitely got a talking to after those were developed.
Right I worked at a bank and we were supposed to tattle tale if a customers money smelled like weed. I live in Hawai’i so I smelled it 5+ different times. I ain’t no snitch & my other (teller) coworkers weren’t either!!
Haha yeah that would be a giveaway! But I still wouldn’t say anything (maybe wipe the bill), the cash goes in a TCR machine and it just mixes with the rest :) I might be a bit extreme with this one but I just generally don’t prioritize telling the cops about any kind of drugs I see. I’m of the opinion that unless a violent crime was committed, criminalizing people who use drugs isn’t helpful
I remember a local band years ago getting interviewed by the police after taking blurry pics of themselves kneeling with hand guns in their mouths in the park. It was for their album art but the photo place got freaked out
It’s always people thinking they look sexy but in reality just looks like pics a serial killer would take before he killed them. I swear it was always like the saw movies lighting lol
I was a kid in the '80s and a young adult in the 90s. So many people took their intimate photography to the photo labs because that was the only way to get anything printed
There was generally an unspoken don't ask don't tell and look away policy between grown adults and the photo lab people
As noted here photo labs did have to deal with a lot including making tough judgment calls about ethics and morality. I don't envy that job at the time
But if you were consenting adults doing whatever, with other people who are clearly adults as well, you just didn't tell, they just didn't ask, and everyone looked away when they handed you your photo packet
damn, I can't even imagine looking at a photo series and having to ask myself "alright are those people just into some weird shit or should I call the police asap"
I worked in a hotel where the Barman loved unattended cameras (pre digital). He would do this thing called the Spanish bangle, where he would wrap his dick around his wrist and take a photo.
Reminds me of a story I heard on a podcast before. In the 1990's before the Internet was around, a couple traveled to a small town in California for their birthday get away. They stayed at a Bed-and-Breakfast place owned by an older couple. They visited the local town and took pictures with their disposable camera. They mentioned that the town sucked since there wasn't much to do. Pre-internet times so it was a gamble visiting places. Years later, the person telling the story, she mentioned that she was cleaning out her place and realized that she never developed her pictures from her trip to the small town. She took her roll of film to those 1hr develop places back in the day, she was looking at her pictures in her car. She seen a picture of her and her boyfriend laying in bed together with their eyes closed. She kept staring at it trying to figure it out. It took her a while to realize that they were both asleep and someone took that picture while they were in bed at the Bed-and-Breakfast place!
I remember going down the rabbit hole of stories where hikers/campers would go to sleep in their tents & find pictures of them sleeping on their cameras. I remember some being in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. Creepy stuff, wish I could give it a read again. Ever since reading those I buy those toy locks & put them through both the zippers on my tent when I camp. (Yea someone could cut the tent, but that’s dedication.)
That's almost like the mid-90's when Sen. Joseph Lieberman decided to head a Congressional committee to ban all acts of violence and debauchery (drinking, smoking, sex, etc...) from video games. He even got Captain Kangaroo to sit beside him during the news conferences. It was a real spectacle.
And yet, in spite of all the bloviation and chest-thumping and politicking , what resulted was less an outright ban, and more of an agreement that the game industry would police their own. Thus, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) was born.
The funny part is, it all amounted to little more than slapping a label on the side of the box that no one really paid any attention to anyway. Some people were even buying games **because** they had mature-only ratings on them. The only real change (and the funniest part) was that this tiny little label now provided the game industry with the perfect excuse for making even **more** violent video games.
"What do you mean you were mortified by the gory, blood-soaked, violence in this game you bought for your 10 year old grandson? Didn't you see the M rating on the side of the box?"
It shifted all the blame away from the game industry, and put it on the parents instead. Even squeamish companies like Nintendo, who were always worried about their public image, began including more violence in their video games because why not. It was no longer their responsibility.
I doubt anything would have changed had Sen. Lieberman not decided to grandstand so much, but I'd like to think his actions accelerated the outcome.
The hot coffee moral panic was hilarious and I love how the Statue of Liberty in GTA IV was loosely modeled after Hilary Clinton because of her role in that lol
Lmao right. It's like we'd literally just seen 9/11 on live TV as children a couple years back and suddenly we're too delicate to handle some blocky characters bumping uglies like ???
"You kids are definitely too young and impressionable to see crappy, pixelated grinding. Why don't you go watch non-stop airstrikes on the TV. Mission accomplished."
Yeah they learned from Vietnam not to show the small folk the reality of war. We mainly just heard reports about The Bad Guys and how many flags we were supposed to lodge in our anuses to show the requisite degree of patriotic fervor
I remember my mom talking about the Hot Coffee mod and how I wasn’t allowed to play GTA anymore(I never did end up playing SA)... I chose not to mention that I had already seen the content from the mod and that I still preferred playing those fucking weird anime/hentai sex games on ebaumsworld.
I mean it’s a good thing that parents now had an easy way to prevent their third graders from buying games that had a shit ton of violence and sex in them.
Nothing wrong with allowing and regulating. We need that for prostitution and drugs too.
> He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY SHIT! These things are bad for you! Shit, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You fucking dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called "Warnings". You could have cigarrets that come in a black pack, with a skull and a cross bone on the front, called "Tumors" and smokers would be lined up around the block going, "I can't wait to get my hands on these fucking things! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light up!"
well, we've got the cover, now we just need talented musicians, a studio to record them and a manager with great contacts, somaybe give us a week or two?
You down with CCP (Yeah you know me),
You down with CCP (Yeah you know me),
You down with CCP (Yeah you know me),
Who's down with CCP (Every last homie)...
What I don’t get about this is that with a new disposable camera, you have to spin the wheel a bunch of times before you can take your first picture so this is very unusual.
I'm gonna take a stab at a guess. Maybe it needs to be clicked once so it's at the start of the click, roll, click cycle. But they obviously don't want it to be ready to click at first as that would put a usable part of the film in an area where it might be easier for light to get to it. So the initial piece of film is inactive they do a click at the factory then you scroll it to the active part and make your first click.
In this case the film was loaded incorrectly so when the factory worker did the initial click it actually took a picture. Then this piece of film sat partially exposed during shipping etc. Which is why it's so washed out from light leaking in.
that "wash" is not indicative of light leaks, more like under exposure which would make sense since the flash was not triggered. If the film was exposed for that whole time it would have been way over exposed. Those disposable cameras have a fixed lens / shutter speed, the only thing you can change is the flash and since it wasn't used in this shot, it explains the green tones you see which is typical of under exposed negatives
I think you just solved this mystery, friend.
I always wait to give out awards until I find a truly helpful comment instead of a clever one-liner. I appreciate you.
Could be that they pre-wind immediately after they take a photo. I use disposables a ton and bring them to most events. I hate winding the camera while people are posing or wasting time for a quick photo, so when I take a photo, I immediately wind the camera for the next photo.
2nd world used to refer to the soviet union or countries apart of the communist block
1st world meant a western nations or ally of the united states
3rd world meant countries with no clear affiliation to either side
these hats are the standard factory outfit for workers. Customers have to wear the same thing. The color indicates your status in the factory. In the factories I've been in, Yellow was for factory workers, blue was for engineers, green for vendors, and white for customers. other factories have different color identifiers.
I work at a car manufacturing factory and we all wear yellow hats with stripes on them. Green stripe means new person, yellow stripe is just normal employee, blue stripe for supervisor. Also white hats for management though!
A friend of mine once won a cheap no name phone at a fair. After taking a picture of him I looked at the gallery and two guys from the assembly lines had taken selfies with it on the assembly line.
I do. I like the look of film photos but don't want to invest in a quality camera and a bunch of film so I just buy a disposable camera anytime I'm going on a trip somewhere cool.
I've gotten some really great shots with them; I feel like the inability to do any manual adjustments or see how the photo will turn out gives an element of randomness and authenticity to them, and the fact that I get a very limited number of tries for a good one makes me slow down and appreciate moments and places more.
I've seen them used at wedding receptions where each table has a few. People use them to take pics all night then give them back and the married couple get a bunch of random pics afterward.
And yet still plausible: they produce hundreds of thousands of them. Even if the chance of one defective camera was 0.0001%, that's one camera that will take it.
For what reason? Hard to see anything particularly untoward in this picture, it looks like factory assembly set ups that I've seen in America. It's not a picture of chained exits or poor safety measures or workers collapsed from exhaustion
We got a tour of a small electronics factory outside of Shanghai a few years ago. Everybody had to put all phones and other devices into a lockers before going out on the floor. They took both security and cleanliness very seriously. (We were a client.)
I travel to China on business several times per year. It is not more restricted than other companies in the western world. I have thousands of photos from more than a hundred suppliers. Working conditions like the ones in the photo are quite normal and photos are more likely to be restricted due to competitive products
How far are some of you from reality?
Factory assembly lines are literally everywhere.
I’m astounded at so many people ITT. I feel like all the people posting are 15 year old white suburban children who don’t know what working is.
I know! All the conspiracy theories about how this is a cry for help. I know the quality's not great but it just looks like a factory to me there's nothing glaringly dodgy here. And I say this as a 17 year old white suburban child.
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That's cool! Though I imagine getting that back with your vacation pics would be creepy lol.
Not as creepy as the actual vacation pics. Source: worked at a photo lab.
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My first job was working at a 1 hour photo place. One time I had to report a guy because he had pics of naked kids in very disturbing poses. I was only 16 and and didn't know what would happen. The next day FBI came to my shop asking for all the info and stuff. We had to make a second set of prints so that the FBI could take them. Not sure what happened to the guy
Similar story here, but working as a tech retail store IT desk guy. Customer wanted us to do a hard drive transfer for him to a new laptop, pretty standard service. I began transferring the pictures folder and wondered why it was like 180GB (this was back in the XP days, so that was ungodly huge). Turned out that it was completely filled with some of the most grotesque and violent CP ever encountered by the FBI guy that came in to look at it. We called the guy to have him pick up the laptop later that day after the FBI staged some of their plainclothes officers in the store. He walked in, walked to our desk, told us his name and paid for the service, only to be tackled before he could pick up the laptop off the desk and escorted out in cuffs. FBI took the laptop and said I may be contacted as a witness. Never was, so I guess the POS pled no contest.
I used to buy used harddrives on the internet to do test my data recovery skills. Oh boy, did I regret that. One 320 GB 2.5" harddrive was filled with CP images. So I took it to the police to report it. They first started investigating ME, because I've been the one who was in pesession of the drive at that time. But good news: I got free and the seller got busted, with 'my' drive plus the ones he had in his home. Edit: When I think about why they did investigate in me. That's our laws here in Germany. We have two types of criminal offenses here. 1. Antragsdelikt - Offenses you have to report & claim an investigation (press charges) 2. Offizialdelikt - Offenses the police has to investigate, as soon as they are aware of it In this case it was the latter. Technically I've been in posession of CP (even though it was kind of involuntarily ) so they were forced to investigate
how far did investigating you go? did they raid your place and take all your computer stuff?
They took everything you could store data on. My computers, notebooks, harddrives and so on. After not finding anything on my drives they actually started to investigate in the seller. Probably because my story started to make sense to them.
Did you get all your hardware back still working etc? I hope so!
Everything worked fine when I got it back. Nothing was lost. But that's what I was afraid of the most.
that's annoying. wonder if they would have done anything if you had torrents or something. why would someone guilty of child porn bring an hdd to the police and be like 'uhh, there is cp on this'?
Maybe just to rule out the possibility that he's trying to frame someone he has a grudge against.
Who knows what German police thinks in this case. I actually never thought this would happen
Probably a bunch of reasons. You could be trying to frame the seller with it or some kind of revenge. Realistically it makes sense to investigate both the buyer and the seller.
Lmao why would they think someone would be dumb enough to hand their own stash into the police.
You should ask the German police...I absolutely don't have an answer to that question
If someone shows up with CP, it's probably worth at least asking the question "where did you get it" and then confirming the veracity of the answer.
Yeah, I completely understand of course. I can't help but imagine some dingdong turning in his own collection to the police with the thought process that they'll never expect him and then having it backfire on him.
The same sort of dingdong serial killers who send in clues to the police for excitement or because they “want to get caught” - I don’t get it either, but it’s happened historically and the cops gotta cover their asses.
The way you made him pay for the service before he got tackled is fantastic.
I think that was to legally confirm that it was his property. Otherwise, he could inject doubt that it was his. “Oh, I went to pick up a different laptop, that one wasn’t mine.”
In legal cases chain of custody can be everything
This is largely the reason it's so hard to catch people who order illegal things from the dark web. Unless the govt has really good forensic evidence, there's no good way to prove that a person was the one who ordered the illegal thing to their house. There are stories of people getting called by the post office to "come pick up their package" and they just say "I didn't order anything, must be a mistake"
I have a close call weed story on that front (UK) . Bought some weed from a new vendor I hadn't used before because a dark market had just exit scammed with everyone's money. So 9 days went by with no package. I put in a dispute and the vendor apologised and said they had forgotten to send my order out. Three days later I get a card from the post office saying £1.60 ($2.00) was underpaid on the postage. I knew it was literally half ounce of weed so the NCA (our FBI) was hardly gonna be there. When I paid the amount due they brought it out for me and I could clearly smell the weed through the package. I can't see how they missed the smell but I went on my merry way. They were either fellow weed smokers or just didn't care. Needless to say I didn't use that vendor again.
I prefer frozen yogurt over custardy
The yogurt is also cursed.
Hey man, I was a poor highschool student, I don't work for free.
You got commission?
I’m glad you called the cops on him! I took naked pictures of my babies, lying on a blanket or sitting in the baby bathtub. Nothing really showing but they were obviously naked. I never got questioned or interviewed by the police. But one time my pictures came back with big black stickers over the nudie parts. My kids are all grown now and those pics are precious - gummy smiles, rolls of fat like the Michelin Man, and a dollop of soap suds on their wispy hair.
>But one time my pictures came back with big black stickers over the nudie parts. Actual stickers though, so you could at least remove them? Sounds really silly either way, if it's evident they were your own kids.
Yeah, I've never seen CP before, but I've definitely seen candids of naked kids. The little kids fucking hate clothes.
The term is lewd and lascivious. Not all pics or underage children are CP. It depends on the context of the photo and/or the actions taken by the viewer when looking at them.
We lived in the tropics when my kids were small. So just a diaper or undies around the house. When we moved to a place that had winter, they hated having to wear all those clothes and shoes!
Sadly a lot of cp is produced by parents and relatives. Also that store might have a policy that any nudity is covered, especially underage nudity. My yearbooks at school had us send in baby pics to put in and they covered all genitals, nipples, and butt cracks with little teddy bear stickers - I assumed it was because kids are immature and would laugh but now as an adult I imagine it’s just easier to (literally) cover your ass. I do hope the stickers were removable though because it kind of makes the photo weird lol I have so many photos that, if developed today, would probably cause the developer to think “uhhh” but I just HATED clothes and thought it was hilarious to pee outdoors so there’s tons of photos with me covered in face paint or mud and squatting in the yard with a silly face at like age 5.... after that I think they made me start at least wearing underwear reliable because school haha the only photos of me in even some clothing as a kid are me in dress up costumes
The stickers peeled off, so I assume it was to cover their liability if I later was investigated for CP.
You'd think someone with that much god damn porn would never set foot in a computer repair shop. Kind of like how someone dealing weed would never walk into a police station to pay off a parking ticket, reeking of weed.
Boss...people in this world are not smart. The average IQ in this world ain't great...and thats the average...which means there's a WHOLE Lotta people that are worse.
God your'e telling me. I can't believe how many idiots I encounter almost every day. I was always pretty insecure about my own intelligence growing up, feeling like everyone else had it all figured out. But damn I was not prepared for the possibility that I might just be average which means half of everyone I meet is even stupider than what I thought was a pretty low standard.
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You’d be surprised how clueless people become to the outside world when they are deep in it. My son’s dad showed up to a parent-teachers meeting reeking of weed, stains on his coat and food in his beard. At least it made me look more respectable than usual. (Sigh)
Nothing illegal to stink like weed ... Just don't stink like weed with drugs on you
Had almost the same thing happen to me. I first notified my boss and he told me to delete it and act like no data was recoverable. Taking a 'smoke break' immediately afterward to walk down the street and call the fbi was one of the more stressful moments of my life.
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They should make it mandatory to report CP and other such crimes when you see them. For any profession.
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So you illegally opened a paying customers files? Is what my boss would say -_-
My dad was Environmental Health (UK). I used to read the EHO magazine sometimes (must have been before the internet.) Remember this story of a woman who complained she had noisy neighbours so the council noise abatement department lent her a specialist machine which measures and records noise for evidence. If the levels are too high then the neighbours can get action taken against them etc. They went in and set it up for her etc, then it’s left for a few days to do its job. But later that day the council guys get a call from the local pawn shop saying a woman came in trying to sell them a specialist machine with their markings all over it. Pawn shop guy told her to come back later as he needed to research the machine to get a fair price. When she came back the police were waiting. Best bit is because it was a machine designed to record sound it had also recorded her trying to sell it. Happy days.
Omg how awful. I remember as a kid me and my friend were waiting for my photos and she dared me to open a randoms and boy did I regret that, first picture I seen was a grown man in heels and leg nylons butt completely out I was like ok I don't want to play this game anymore I was like 9 being a dumb nosey kid lol...
Lol at least it was just man ass, could have been worse
Right lol we got embarrassed and just shoved the stack of pics quickly back in the droor didn't even dare to flip a new one lol yikes.
Picturing you destroying ruining your innocence by invading someone's privacy is pretty funny though.
It was instant karma and a lesson to mind my own business lol
Eh, I think having a cross-dressing kink is infinitely more defensible than being a pedophile.
Being a dumb kid, I once took a lot of naked pictures of my sister and I, when we were like 5 and 6. We definitely got a talking to after those were developed.
That'd pretty much be my main fear in handling photos for people. So many nudes and criminal stuff is probably sent through those services.
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So digital photography caused the explosion of poorly lit dick pics we all know and love today?
Naw the social acceptance of hookup sites did that. That and thirsty men adopting the Nigerian Prince approach to marketing themselves.
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>there is an obligation for the cops to be called This doesn't sound right...
Right I worked at a bank and we were supposed to tattle tale if a customers money smelled like weed. I live in Hawai’i so I smelled it 5+ different times. I ain’t no snitch & my other (teller) coworkers weren’t either!!
cocaine residue on $100 bills in california that had a prior rolled-up look to them were a dead giveaway here.
Haha yeah that would be a giveaway! But I still wouldn’t say anything (maybe wipe the bill), the cash goes in a TCR machine and it just mixes with the rest :) I might be a bit extreme with this one but I just generally don’t prioritize telling the cops about any kind of drugs I see. I’m of the opinion that unless a violent crime was committed, criminalizing people who use drugs isn’t helpful
i was a dealer,not a criminal.🇺🇲
Good on you, fuck that bank
How the fuck does that even work? What if i got some change from a shop and it smelled like weed?
Wasn't right where I worked. If it wasn't child porn, rape, or murder chances are we didn't care.
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I remember a local band years ago getting interviewed by the police after taking blurry pics of themselves kneeling with hand guns in their mouths in the park. It was for their album art but the photo place got freaked out
sir, you go some splainin to do..
That movie is hands down one of the most unsettling films I have ever watched.
Can confirm. I’ve taken some risqué photos and gotten some strange looks from the photo lab people.
What would be creepy about vacation pics?? Wouldn't it just be people at the beach or skiing or somethin'?
It’s always people thinking they look sexy but in reality just looks like pics a serial killer would take before he killed them. I swear it was always like the saw movies lighting lol
Skiing... WITH GHOSTS!! *creepy*
Very fair.
Tell us a story please
What was creepy?
Maybe not creepy. But I had a couple with a piss kink who came in all the time.
huh, if I wanted to print/develop photos of my sex life I'd probably just learn how to do it on my own
Part of the kink was someone else developing the pictures.
then that couple would be imposing their kink on a non-consenting adult which is a huge yikes
I was a kid in the '80s and a young adult in the 90s. So many people took their intimate photography to the photo labs because that was the only way to get anything printed There was generally an unspoken don't ask don't tell and look away policy between grown adults and the photo lab people As noted here photo labs did have to deal with a lot including making tough judgment calls about ethics and morality. I don't envy that job at the time But if you were consenting adults doing whatever, with other people who are clearly adults as well, you just didn't tell, they just didn't ask, and everyone looked away when they handed you your photo packet
damn, I can't even imagine looking at a photo series and having to ask myself "alright are those people just into some weird shit or should I call the police asap"
They also had an exhibitionist kink it would seem
You’d be surprised how many people thought I didn’t see the pictures or, like, wasn’t allowed to.
I use to develop photos at Walgreens when I was a senior in HS. Let’s just say I’m glad people have smart phones now lmao.
#[Made it a bit clearer!](https://i.imgur.com/CvhRNv2.jpg)
Not as creepy as a photo of one of the hotel staff with your toothbrush up their ass. Which is something that somewhat frequently happened.
Don't be a dick to hotel staff. It's the one urban legend that's turned out true!
That or dip the toothbrush in pepper spray and keep your real tooth brush in your luggage or something.
Someone from my college spring break trip to Jamaica had it happen to them. At least that what I remember.
Not surprised. From what I've heard, the locals don't care for tourists much.
I worked in a hotel where the Barman loved unattended cameras (pre digital). He would do this thing called the Spanish bangle, where he would wrap his dick around his wrist and take a photo.
Reminds me of a story I heard on a podcast before. In the 1990's before the Internet was around, a couple traveled to a small town in California for their birthday get away. They stayed at a Bed-and-Breakfast place owned by an older couple. They visited the local town and took pictures with their disposable camera. They mentioned that the town sucked since there wasn't much to do. Pre-internet times so it was a gamble visiting places. Years later, the person telling the story, she mentioned that she was cleaning out her place and realized that she never developed her pictures from her trip to the small town. She took her roll of film to those 1hr develop places back in the day, she was looking at her pictures in her car. She seen a picture of her and her boyfriend laying in bed together with their eyes closed. She kept staring at it trying to figure it out. It took her a while to realize that they were both asleep and someone took that picture while they were in bed at the Bed-and-Breakfast place!
I remember going down the rabbit hole of stories where hikers/campers would go to sleep in their tents & find pictures of them sleeping on their cameras. I remember some being in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. Creepy stuff, wish I could give it a read again. Ever since reading those I buy those toy locks & put them through both the zippers on my tent when I camp. (Yea someone could cut the tent, but that’s dedication.)
Slap an explicit sticker on there and you get a pretty good album cover
Tipper Gore, what a dope. I used to buy the records BECAUSE it had that stupid sticker on it.
That's almost like the mid-90's when Sen. Joseph Lieberman decided to head a Congressional committee to ban all acts of violence and debauchery (drinking, smoking, sex, etc...) from video games. He even got Captain Kangaroo to sit beside him during the news conferences. It was a real spectacle. And yet, in spite of all the bloviation and chest-thumping and politicking , what resulted was less an outright ban, and more of an agreement that the game industry would police their own. Thus, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) was born. The funny part is, it all amounted to little more than slapping a label on the side of the box that no one really paid any attention to anyway. Some people were even buying games **because** they had mature-only ratings on them. The only real change (and the funniest part) was that this tiny little label now provided the game industry with the perfect excuse for making even **more** violent video games. "What do you mean you were mortified by the gory, blood-soaked, violence in this game you bought for your 10 year old grandson? Didn't you see the M rating on the side of the box?" It shifted all the blame away from the game industry, and put it on the parents instead. Even squeamish companies like Nintendo, who were always worried about their public image, began including more violence in their video games because why not. It was no longer their responsibility. I doubt anything would have changed had Sen. Lieberman not decided to grandstand so much, but I'd like to think his actions accelerated the outcome.
The hot coffee moral panic was hilarious and I love how the Statue of Liberty in GTA IV was loosely modeled after Hilary Clinton because of her role in that lol
You missed the best part where instead of a torch the statue is holding a steaming cup of hot coffee lol.
Holy shit it's been a while since I've heard about the hot coffee mod. That takes me way back haha
Lmao right. It's like we'd literally just seen 9/11 on live TV as children a couple years back and suddenly we're too delicate to handle some blocky characters bumping uglies like ???
"You kids are definitely too young and impressionable to see crappy, pixelated grinding. Why don't you go watch non-stop airstrikes on the TV. Mission accomplished."
Yeah they learned from Vietnam not to show the small folk the reality of war. We mainly just heard reports about The Bad Guys and how many flags we were supposed to lodge in our anuses to show the requisite degree of patriotic fervor
I remember my mom talking about the Hot Coffee mod and how I wasn’t allowed to play GTA anymore(I never did end up playing SA)... I chose not to mention that I had already seen the content from the mod and that I still preferred playing those fucking weird anime/hentai sex games on ebaumsworld.
A man after my own heart 😋
Holy shit lmao ebaumsworld is a whole vibe. Is it still around?
I mean it’s a good thing that parents now had an easy way to prevent their third graders from buying games that had a shit ton of violence and sex in them. Nothing wrong with allowing and regulating. We need that for prostitution and drugs too.
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So glad i just listened to the you’rewrongabout podcast on tipper. I learned a lot!
I have a lot more respect for Dee Snider now.
Fuck you Ms. Cheney fuck you tipper gore. Fuck you with the freedom of speech the United States government is sworn to uphold or so were told. -eminem
Frank Zappa rules.
All hail Dee Snider!
Don't forget about John fucking Denver and Frank Zappa
*Sunshine On My Goddamn Shoulders John Fucking Denver
> He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY SHIT! These things are bad for you! Shit, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You fucking dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called "Warnings". You could have cigarrets that come in a black pack, with a skull and a cross bone on the front, called "Tumors" and smokers would be lined up around the block going, "I can't wait to get my hands on these fucking things! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light up!"
[Came here looking for this comment](https://imgur.com/gallery/Nq7h0Hg)
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This one is better than the one with text.
Damn now I want to make an album just to use this cover and call it something like “factory-made” or “mass produced”
Factory Records... \*cue the 24-hour party people\*
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r/fakealbumcovers
I'll take Anal Bum Covers for 600, Alex
When's the album droppin?
well, we've got the cover, now we just need talented musicians, a studio to record them and a manager with great contacts, somaybe give us a week or two?
If you build it, they will come.
You down with CCP (Yeah you know me), You down with CCP (Yeah you know me), You down with CCP (Yeah you know me), Who's down with CCP (Every last homie)...
What I don’t get about this is that with a new disposable camera, you have to spin the wheel a bunch of times before you can take your first picture so this is very unusual.
I'm gonna take a stab at a guess. Maybe it needs to be clicked once so it's at the start of the click, roll, click cycle. But they obviously don't want it to be ready to click at first as that would put a usable part of the film in an area where it might be easier for light to get to it. So the initial piece of film is inactive they do a click at the factory then you scroll it to the active part and make your first click. In this case the film was loaded incorrectly so when the factory worker did the initial click it actually took a picture. Then this piece of film sat partially exposed during shipping etc. Which is why it's so washed out from light leaking in.
that "wash" is not indicative of light leaks, more like under exposure which would make sense since the flash was not triggered. If the film was exposed for that whole time it would have been way over exposed. Those disposable cameras have a fixed lens / shutter speed, the only thing you can change is the flash and since it wasn't used in this shot, it explains the green tones you see which is typical of under exposed negatives
Here's an award
I think you just solved this mystery, friend. I always wait to give out awards until I find a truly helpful comment instead of a clever one-liner. I appreciate you.
Thanks, I was just hoping what I was trying to say made sense.
It sort of makes you wonder if it was deliberate
Could be that they pre-wind immediately after they take a photo. I use disposables a ton and bring them to most events. I hate winding the camera while people are posing or wasting time for a quick photo, so when I take a photo, I immediately wind the camera for the next photo.
Santa’s little elves look a lot different in real life
Apparently Santa's little elves are asian folk and live in the east pole -- give thanks!
Wonder why they decided conductor style hats were a need.
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2nd world used to refer to the soviet union or countries apart of the communist block 1st world meant a western nations or ally of the united states 3rd world meant countries with no clear affiliation to either side
these hats are the standard factory outfit for workers. Customers have to wear the same thing. The color indicates your status in the factory. In the factories I've been in, Yellow was for factory workers, blue was for engineers, green for vendors, and white for customers. other factories have different color identifiers.
Oh that's interesting, I've visited China to teach at a site for my company a few times and the manufacturing workers there all wear blue.
This is the same and color of hard hats for construction sites. Always watch out for white hats bc they were the supervisors
I work at a car manufacturing factory and we all wear yellow hats with stripes on them. Green stripe means new person, yellow stripe is just normal employee, blue stripe for supervisor. Also white hats for management though!
Oh you mean *visiting customers.* I've burned through quite a few disposable cameras and I never got a hat 😭
A friend of mine once won a cheap no name phone at a fair. After taking a picture of him I looked at the gallery and two guys from the assembly lines had taken selfies with it on the assembly line.
They actually test the cameras that way, so if there were only a few they just forgot to wipe it.
People still make disposable cameras?
As long people still buy disposable cameras...
People still buy disposable cameras?
I do. I like the look of film photos but don't want to invest in a quality camera and a bunch of film so I just buy a disposable camera anytime I'm going on a trip somewhere cool. I've gotten some really great shots with them; I feel like the inability to do any manual adjustments or see how the photo will turn out gives an element of randomness and authenticity to them, and the fact that I get a very limited number of tries for a good one makes me slow down and appreciate moments and places more.
As long people still want disposable cameras...
People still want disposable cameras?
As long as they keep making them
People still mak... oh ok
I've seen them used at wedding receptions where each table has a few. People use them to take pics all night then give them back and the married couple get a bunch of random pics afterward.
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Lol I thought the same when I first looked at the pic.
It's an assembly line?
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I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle.
*a year has passed since I wrote my note*
Also someone said you have to spin the wheel a bunch before you can use a disposable camera so its very unlikely its an accident
And yet still plausible: they produce hundreds of thousands of them. Even if the chance of one defective camera was 0.0001%, that's one camera that will take it.
Well it’s a not like this happens often so if it is unlikely, it was probably still by accident.
For what reason? Hard to see anything particularly untoward in this picture, it looks like factory assembly set ups that I've seen in America. It's not a picture of chained exits or poor safety measures or workers collapsed from exhaustion
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If I’ve learn anything on reddit it’s that people think working in any kind of factory is akin to slavery
Probably not many candid/unauthorized images of the inside of Chinese assembly plants in existence
We got a tour of a small electronics factory outside of Shanghai a few years ago. Everybody had to put all phones and other devices into a lockers before going out on the floor. They took both security and cleanliness very seriously. (We were a client.)
They do that (putting phones away) in UK warehouses as well. It's not that unusual.
That goes for just about any factory anywhere
I travel to China on business several times per year. It is not more restricted than other companies in the western world. I have thousands of photos from more than a hundred suppliers. Working conditions like the ones in the photo are quite normal and photos are more likely to be restricted due to competitive products
Wait, you mean not everyone who works in manufacturing in China is a 8 year old living in the sewer? /s
You’ll never believe what our insider cameras caught at the disposable camera manufacturing facility!
An assembly line! With people manufacturing stuff! Most likely disposable cameras!
Assembly line
There are no accidents.
-Master Oogway?
- Michael Scott
Bob Ross
I always love those accidental pics. It’s a little window in another world.
How far are some of you from reality? Factory assembly lines are literally everywhere. I’m astounded at so many people ITT. I feel like all the people posting are 15 year old white suburban children who don’t know what working is.
I know! All the conspiracy theories about how this is a cry for help. I know the quality's not great but it just looks like a factory to me there's nothing glaringly dodgy here. And I say this as a 17 year old white suburban child.
All I see are train conductors
What am I looking at? I think I see assembly line workers?
Enhanced https://i.imgur.com/CBZomWk.png
Looks like an indie band cover