Internet sales of hidden 'nanny' cameras booming

There’s nothing like a stout mix of fear and falling technology prices to whip up sales of hidden cameras.

Surveillance experts say sales of “nanny cams” are exploding, fueled by distrust and easy access to inexpensive, quality equipment from Web sites around the world.

Businesses are buying the tiny cameras to catch malfeasant employees or spy on competitors. Individuals are snapping them up to watch homes, children or suspected wayward spouses.

“People do not trust people anymore,” said Helen Bowser, who, with her husband, Chris Bowser, owns The Protection Pros, an online retailer of surveillance equipment based in Morristown, east of Indianapolis.

Tim Wilcox, who owns International Investigators Inc., a private investigation firm in Indianapolis, said easy availability is merging with fears as old as humanity itself.

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Hotel staff take action during stabbing attack

The Prince George Hotel's staff and management are being praised by the RCMP for aiding in a weekend stabbing.

The victim, a 43-year-old man, and the assailant, a 46-year-old female, happened to get into an altercation on George Street in front of the hotel. Owner Ted Coole stressed that the two were not on the hotel's premises that day, and in fact they had both been ejected and barred from their property for past behaviour.

It was the hotel staff's quick action and the use of their surveillance video that halted the nasty situation and brought the help everyone respectively needed, said Coole.

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