Bogus and dodgy products.

[Admin]

I was looking through this week's TV quick TV listings magazine and I saw an advert for a "mini telescope & microscope".

This is it here: http://www.superspyscope.co.uk/

Now available to the general public. This amazing miniaturised SPY SCOPE is less than 5 inches long.

Now available to the public?

I take it we're meant to infer that it was previously a secret military device or something.

The long range lenses in this fine instrument make it ideal for police, detective or spy operations. The sensational pull-in power lets you observe all kinds of suspicious activities at great distances. You can see THEM. But they can't see YOU.

What if they have a Super Spyscope as well?

I can only imagine just how great the image resolution is with this device. And even better, you can adjust the lenses and it turns into a super microscope too!!

And I always find this a dubious sign on a website: http://www.superspyscope.co.uk/about.php

An 'About us' page that doesn't say anything about them.

[vbloke]

SPY SCOPE is so powerful, it pulls in far away people… houses… sports… mountains… lakes… even the moon!

I'm so glad I just ordered one of these... I never knew I'd need one to see the moon!

[CatWoman]

Now that really is a "must have" gadget

I went so far as to have them send me their Top Ten Surveillance Tips...

1. Vans are best for surveillance. Get tinted glass so you can sit in the back, virtually unnoticed, most anywhere. I like the older -vans, like the Ford Transit, as they are more nimble and blend in better (they're everywhere) than newer ones. Once you've worked out of a van you'll never go back to a car.

2. Stay on the vehicle's bumper when tailing in the city, and allow a car between you as a buffer in slower areas. There are too many traffic lights, junctions and traffic in the city, making it easy lose the tail.

3. Lack of dew on a vehicle during morning hours could indicate it was moved sometime that night.

4. Verify address by using the address lookup facility offered by many of e-commerce sites on the internet.

5. Determine whether residence is a single or multi-family home by counting the number of front doors.

6. While tailing someone, you notice the person stopping i.e. in front of a house- you (as cover) continue past, turn into an empty driveway as if you belong there. Don't lose sight of person.

7. Take detailed notes via pen & paper or voice recorder. Write date/times, make & plate of any vehicles there, any vehicle movement, anyone showing up, etc. Good notes are crucial for your surveillance.

8. Accurately estimating the height of an individual can be difficult. You can get a good idea by comparing the individual's height to that of any vehicle that they get into or out of. This will become easier with practice.

9. When running video, there will be lots of stop starting of the camera - create definite borders between clips by placing hand over camera at the end of each segment. Make sure a time & date stamp appears on tape (setting on camera). Aways obtain a panoramic video shot of location and vehicle for video verification that the person was there.

10. Stake-outs can run several hours and occur in non-optimal situations i.e.no shops nearby, so keep a roll of toilet paper in your vehicle at all times.


Number 10 is very useful - Toilet paper is a MUST

[CatWoman]

After all that Spy work - how about some of this to revitalise your body and brain ???

http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/p...OX+Pure+Oxygen

[vbloke]

from Wikipedia:

at sea-level pressures, mixtures containing less than 50% oxygen are essentially non-toxic. However ... mixtures containing more than 50% oxygen can be expected to show lung toxicity, causing slow damage to the lungs over periods of days, with the rate of damage rising rapidly from mixtures between 50% and 100% oxygen.