Caught on Camera

Several years ago I saw a television show called Caught on Camera. It featured clips of people being secretly filmed doing all manner of horrific things, precisely because they thought they were alone. In one scene a man urinated into a pot of coffee that had been brewed for his coworkers. In another, a cook in a restaurant spit into a meal he was preparing for customers.

And in yet another scene, a woman threw a puppy across a room. The show was disgusting, but it revealed that a lot goes on in a person’s heart and head that simply can’t be seen. In our brave, new surveillance culture, we catch the real character of people all the time, as “nanny cams” capture abuse of children and the elderly, and security cameras film employee vandalism and cruelty.