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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 1:23:45 GMT
Surveillance cameras are very much the norm in most public areas all over the US. Mostly as crime deterrents but, any "good" skilled enough criminal knows how to get around them, or simply just "dress the part" to escape detection as my assailants were.
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Post by bjd on Jan 18, 2015 6:54:20 GMT
Mich, I haven't seen anyone using those motorized scooters in my mother's building. (I also learned that they are called "personal mobility vehicles"!). Just the hand-pushed ones. But it is on a fairly busy street in Toronto with shops nearby, so I can't imagine anyone needing one there.
There is a parking lot beside the canal near my place, where people park when they go running or go to a club which is nearby. And very often, in the morning, there are piles of broken glass when the car windows have been smashed to get at whatever was inside. I often think a surveillance camera (even a fake one) would act as a deterrent, at least to a certain extent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 17:18:17 GMT
It really depends... They can be a major deterrent under certain circumstances. They can also be fairly useless as the culprits depending on how savvy they are, can easily get around them in a variety of ways, most often "disguises" which on film render them unrecognizable aside from height and body size. They are useful in identifying automobiles, "get away " cars that are not that easy to disguise. But, even then many of the get away cars are stolen vehicles to begin with leaving the authorities at a "dead end" A lot of hard core criminals mock them.
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2015 11:52:49 GMT
I live on the top floor of my 3-floor building (4 floors American), and we will never have an elevator. does that mean in america the ground floor is counted as first floor? if so, i suppose i live on the american 5th floor, even though it is the fourth one here. no elevator either. and often enough a toddler, a small stroller and the shopping to be carried ... and i am still not managing to lose weight ... (still alright for me though - the old lady one floor down is struggling lately, and so is her poodle. today she rang me so i could come down and carry her dog up)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 12:08:46 GMT
Yes, in the U.S. they call the ground floor the 1st floor.
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Outrage!
Mar 2, 2015 5:10:16 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 2, 2015 5:10:16 GMT
The ground floor IS the first floor, K2! In Europe I hear they call the 2nd floor the first floor. If you fall out a 1st floor window there, it hurts a lot more than here!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 6:00:16 GMT
We don't have floors at ground level in Europe. It is just packed earth.
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Post by bjd on Mar 2, 2015 7:43:13 GMT
Of course we do have floors at street level, but the first floor is the one above.
When we lived in eastern France, and where all my kids were born, we lived on the 5th (European) floor with no elevator. Fortunately they all walked early. If I shopped for groceries, I would leave them in the basement and my husband would bring them up when he got home. The stroller was also left downstairs.
That was an unusual situation because most apartment buildings with no elevator stopped at 4 floors. Except in Paris.
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Mar 2, 2015 14:04:26 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 2, 2015 14:04:26 GMT
We don't have floors at ground level in Europe. It is just packed earth. That's where you keep the livestock, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 14:47:51 GMT
Yes, and the children.
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Post by htmb on Mar 2, 2015 14:57:03 GMT
:-) :-)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 15:44:45 GMT
We don't have floors at ground level in Europe. It is just packed earth. That's where you keep the livestock, isn't it? I am proud to say that when I was a child, I lived in an apartment in a house that had pigs in the packed-earth basement. I also used to ride in a cow-driven wooden cart. And no, this wasn't the 14th century, but it was a village beside the Rhine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 18:19:02 GMT
My basement in Paris is packed earth, but that's only normal since it dates back to the end of the 18th century.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 2, 2015 19:03:03 GMT
When we bought the house in Spain it had packed earth on the ground floor and feed stalls for the animals.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 2, 2015 19:29:44 GMT
The first apartment building we lived in, our apartment number was G102 and we were on the street level of the building. The basement apartments started with B. The apartment floors above the G level were numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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Post by rikita on Mar 6, 2015 11:43:15 GMT
When we lived in eastern France, and where all my kids were born, we lived on the 5th (European) floor with no elevator. Fortunately they all walked early. If I shopped for groceries, I would leave them in the basement and my husband would bring them up when he got home. The stroller was also left downstairs. misread that for a moment and thought you were referring to the kids, rather than the groceries. today i did something agnes finds very funny, and that i have to do if i have a lot of groceries: i left her at the ground floor and brought the stroller (we can't leave it downstairs, no space) and the groceries up one flight of stairs. then i got her and brought her up two flights of stairs. then i got the stroller and brought it up two more flights of stairs. then got her again ... etc, so i alternated, carrying each two flights of stairs, and never being more than one flight of stairs away from either ... agnes thought it was a fun game ...
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Post by bjd on Mar 6, 2015 12:02:19 GMT
It looks as though I didn't express myself clearly then. Just think, Rikita, you don't have to sign up for expensive gym classes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2015 17:35:51 GMT
I was wondering about the kids in the basement as well.
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