This is another PSA brought to you by Shane. See the last one here
If you are gong to commit a crime, please take a second and reconsider the banality of your actions. If you are still going to continue and commit this crime, then by all means, do not videotape the crime. Do not videotape it yourself, do not tell your friend to videotape you committing the crime, and if you see a stranger carrying a video camera as you are about to commit this crime, ask them politely not to videotape you..
Apparently (and I was shocked when I learned this), this videotape can be used in a trial as something called [air quote] evidence [/air quote] and this [air quote] evidence [/air quote] is quite powerful in convincing the jury to prosecute you, the defendant, to the fullest extent of the law. This so called [air quote] evidence [/air quote] is said to remove beyond all reasonable doubt the fact that you indeed committed the crime. I am also led to believe that the jury awards extra incarceration points for stupidity.
If you have been a victim of being videotaped while committing a crime, call your local public defender and ask for the [air quote] evidence [/air quote] tampering division. Your counsel might just get this [air quote] evidence [/air quote] thrown out in the court room because it violates some constitutional right you probably did not deserve to have in the first place.
That is all.
