Every once in a while some great real-life drama comes out of lifecasting site Justin.tv (you just have to sift through thousands of hours of footage to find it). A year ago the police raided the Justin.tv offices/house, guns drawn, for example (I wonder what happened to that video?). More recently, blogger/lifecaster Ronald Lewis was caught being a jerk to a random movie theater employee that objected to him bringing his camera into a movie.
Now, a user named Chowda633 manages to accidentally catch his neighbor robbing his apartment. More details on the Justin.tv blog.
I guess this proves that if you point a camera at anything long enough, something interesting might happen.
Watch live video from chowda633’s channel on Justin.tv
He is one comfortable thief. No rush buddy, take your time.
Wow, even when a guy’s getting robbed lifecasting makes for tedious, uncomfortable video.
Wow, great video. The guys not moving too fast, surprisingly…
ya great video thank posting
Technically this is burglary, not robbery. What an idiot the guy is – no gloves and his fingerprints are on everything.
#2: lol that’s exactly what I thought. Only a lifecasted burglary could end up this boring.
i’ve been burglarized a couple times myself and i can’t help wondering if the cops caught the guy. (the ones who responded to my call didn’t seem the least bit interested).
staged.
We were all surprised to see this! I guess according to Chowda the cops came in and dusted for prints and even came back a second time to watch the archival video of the burglary.
so let me get this straight…the guy took a garbage bag full of minor stuff but the computer he leaves?
Wow the guy took his sweet time to rob the place eh?
this was waaaaay too boring to be staged.
Yes a burglary, not a robbery. Isn’t (wasn’t?) Arrington a lawyer?
Um that looks more like burglary Mike. Robbery is when there is a confrontation with another person.
http://en.wikip...g/wiki/Burglary
@13, Yup. looks like 3rd degree too. He wasn’t technically caught red handed even though the cam caught him.
Right.
C’mon Mike. You’re a genius at April Fool’s jokes. This hoax isn’t even that good.
Staged
Pretty convenient that the victim just created a Justin.tv channel 24 hours earlier…hmmm
He is being really polite with the stuff: carefully opening that box on the table, etc. Not breaking stuff. What a polite guy.
FAKE
Lets see the legal documents of his prosecution.
Pretty cool (maybe fake)…
Did you guys see the Japanese massacre that was live on Ustream?
http://globalvo...assacre-part-2/
are you sure it not a publicity stunt?
where is the police report?
I got a tip that it was staged for viral advertising
Holy wow that Ustream article sounded wild….first time people died live online perhaps?
Wild…
Staged +1.
C’mon, first thing to do is look if this camera thing is on….
and second wear some gloves…. boring.
Staged +2
Haha, busted!
staged +3
How come he didn’t grab this superb flag hung on the wall. It probably costs more than the tasteful couch beneath it.
Seriously, this doesn’t look like a robbery at all. Why editors of this site decided to blog this nonsense video becomes a more interesting question at this point.
on a more serious tip…
if you want to see some really screwed up stuff.. look at what some babysitters do to kids when they don’t know the nanny cam’s on them!!!
makes you want to be able to use a bat to a few knees…
There was a similar story recently about a stolen camera with EyeFi phoning home. Technology saves the day! I’d sure love to see the police reports (ahem) from both these cases…
Its all real folks. I am the guy getting robbed. Check out http://www.turnto10.com tomorrow the just left they did an hour interview with me and the woot crew.
Its extremely hard to believe all this happened!
Here is the link to the news crew when they came here for the interview.
Also the girl who robbed my place her name is becky fath. Type her name in on google and look at the wrap sheet!
http://www.just...JAR_NBC_10__The
And thank you again to JTV, Wootvision, and the woot crew for saving my apartment!
It isn’t fake, I woot and I justintv a lot. It is totally true.
That was interesting — I just don’t get why someone would risk so much just for stuff. I also saw that post about that lifecaster Ronald Lewis being a real jerk. The thing I’m thinking about when I’m watching it (other than the fact that he really made himself look like an ill-mannered dunce) is whether you can ever trust a lifecaster to be authentic.
Meaning, when a camera’s rolling they are constantly thinking about this being broadcast —— and they are obviously broadcasting themselves because they want attention. So when they are talking to you, are they really talking to you? Are they authentic? Or are they using you as a subject so they can stage interesting stuff for their viewers? Are they acting?
I don’t think I could ever trust a lifecaster, because I could never shake the notion that they are just being lifelong method actors and when they are talking to you they are really just putting on a show.
Kudos to Justin.tv. Great job.
FYI, the link to the blog post no longer works; now it’s at http://blog.jus...-on-jtv_22.html
Thanks Justin.tv. They helped me capture video of a thief ripping off my house as well. The video is at night but you can see enough to identify the thief. If anyone can identify the scum bag in the video, please contact me. http://www.allt...justintv-style/