Laptop helps man in Germany bust burglar in Brazil

[IRiSHMaFIA]

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) -- A Brazilian businessman traveling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.

Once police were alerted, they rushed to the house and arrested the robber as he was trying on his clothes.

The businessman, Joao Pedro Wettlauser, was in Cologne this weekend when he received an alert on his cell phone from the security system in his beach house in Guaruja in Sao Paulo state, police said on Tuesday.

He logged on to his laptop and via the Internet saw live images of the burglar at work. He then phoned his wife, who was not at the house but called the local police.

"She told us the details about the thief and where in the house he was as we surrounded the house," police officer Americo Rodrigues told Reuters.
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Bet he wouldn't have thought to do that if he hadn't read about the internationally known crime fighter 'The Cam Crusader'! :goofy:

[Gasman59]

I read this story and thought "what a great thig technology is".

Vegas, I would ask for payment on the whole cam thing...

[6ULDV8]

A lot of webcams now come with software that allows them to be motion activated & throw out emails, pictures & even call ya' cellphone.

My logitech pan/tilt/zoom has it, but rather than the softawre that came with it, I use the stuff that came with my video card (Asus eax1900xtx), it's got better notification software & I can set it so as to ignore the dogs else my phone would be ringing every 5 min.s whilst I'm away from the house.

I wouldn't trust webcams as a 'decent' security system, handy yes, decent no...
Too much to go wrong.

[Skylace]

I'm surprised he's not related to vegas!

[Griffo]

The robber was trying on his clothes?

[IRiSHMaFIA]

The robber was trying on his clothes?

That bit had me laughing as well