by gavinmac » Fri Nov 23, 2012 7:48 pm
ken svay wrote:A conspiracy theory where no conspiracy exists.Would the cctv cameras actually function,probably not.
I can tell you from years of working in the casino industry that camera coverage is never as comprehensive as what the general public expects. It's also not uncommon for the coverage to get lost or deleted just through incompetence or technical glitches.
As ken svay says, the cameras there may not work. They may work but they didn't have the recorders properly hooked up. They may not have had cameras at all up on the fifth floor, or if they did, not pointing towards the railing he fell from. Or they may have cameras pointing in right direction right at the exact railing he fell from but someone has hung up a large decoration blocking the view of the camera. They may have cameras that automatically pan back and forth and back and forth that were just panning in the other direction when he fell. There are a lot of reasons why there wouldn't be coverage, mostly that only a small part of the small is under coverage from fixed cameras at any time.
What I would expect in this kind of situation is that they would have some incidental coverage of him entering with the girl and/or the girl leaving, and maybe some coverage of him falling through the sky and the subsequent commotion, but I wouldn't expect there to be video coverage of the actual leap/slip/push.
[quote="ken svay"]A conspiracy theory where no conspiracy exists.Would the cctv cameras actually function,probably not.
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I can tell you from years of working in the casino industry that camera coverage is never as comprehensive as what the general public expects. It's also not uncommon for the coverage to get lost or deleted just through incompetence or technical glitches.
As ken svay says, the cameras there may not work. They may work but they didn't have the recorders properly hooked up. They may not have had cameras at all up on the fifth floor, or if they did, not pointing towards the railing he fell from. Or they may have cameras pointing in right direction right at the exact railing he fell from but someone has hung up a large decoration blocking the view of the camera. They may have cameras that automatically pan back and forth and back and forth that were just panning in the other direction when he fell. There are a lot of reasons why there wouldn't be coverage, mostly that only a small part of the small is under coverage from fixed cameras at any time.
What I would expect in this kind of situation is that they would have some incidental coverage of him entering with the girl and/or the girl leaving, and maybe some coverage of him falling through the sky and the subsequent commotion, but I wouldn't expect there to be video coverage of the actual leap/slip/push.