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Priceless!

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

From Wired:

Cost to install a camera in the town park in Liberty, Kansas (funded by a federal grant : $5,000)

Population of Liberty, Kansas: 95

Irony of spending $50 per resident to install a federally-funded surveillance camera in a tiny town called “Liberty”: Well, you know how the commercial goes.

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6 Responses to “Priceless!”

  1. #1 |  MikeL |  October 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    The best humor is often unintentional.

  2. #2 |  kinyah |  October 23rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    “here’s yer sign”
    -bill engvall

  3. #3 |  MacK |  October 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm

    I’ll bet dollars to dimes that the mayor or whomever decided they needed this (you know the 94 citizens did not) will be caught doing some perverted thing by the camera.

  4. #4 |  GreginOz |  October 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    And I thought Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize was the death of irony…Eee Aww, Eee Awww

  5. #5 |  Libertarian Mac |  October 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Ironically its the town of LIBERTY

  6. #6 |  Andrew |  October 25th, 2008 at 12:28 am

    You know, if they tried installing one of these cameras in the small town in my county I’m pretty sure the local hillbillies and rednecks (full disclosure – I’d include myself as one of that group) would just take it as a challenge. A case of beer to the first one to put a bullet through it with his deer rifle.

    Hopefully there are similarly inclined individuals in Liberty (oh brother the irony) Kansas.

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