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02 May 2008

Help me identify this device? Several events strongly lead me to believe a job I temped for around last December has a camera on the mens' room wall (!,?) Can anyone positively ID this device? Thanks, lol.

post by: shane at: 15:13 | 18 comments

It's a scent dispenser. Probably sprays a puff of deodorizer spray every ten minutes or so.

posted by tomierna 02 May | 15:16

yup- air freshener.

Or, a camera cleverly disguised as an air freshener.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

posted by small_ruminant 02 May | 15:17

automatic de-stink dispenser. battery operated. someone puts a refill aerosol can in it. every so often it triggers itself and emits a small whoosh of anti-stink. they're all over the place, dude.

posted by quonsar 02 May | 15:17

We have these in my office. They're disgusting.

posted by grouse 02 May | 15:18

Ah, hell. It looks like a scent dispenser and that was my first guess.

Thanks. LOL!

posted by shane 02 May | 15:23

they're all over the place, dude.

Obviously not in the kind of bathrooms I frequent.

Not that I, um, frequent bathrooms.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

I swear there were some suspicious circumstances that I won't go into.

Besides, paranoids are everywhere, and they're all out to get me.

posted by shane 02 May | 15:30

See your computer monitor? Yeah, that one, in front of you. The one you're reading this on. Look down towards the bottom of it. See that light? Next to the power button?

That's me. Beaming lasers INTO YOUR SOUL!!!!!

posted by mudpuppie 02 May | 15:56

pew pew pew

posted by goo 02 May | 15:59

What's stopping someone from hiding a camera inside the air freshener? Do you feel better now?

posted by moonshine 02 May | 16:00

Wall Air Freshener is Watching You Masturbate

then beaming the images to my computer. . .all I need to do is sort through the thousands of quicktime files and figure out which one is Shane

posted by danf 02 May | 16:15

Jesus Fuck do I hate these scent robots. As if bowel stench is somehow mitigated by a cloying overlay of fake-citrus or fake-vanilla. *shudder*

And no, not a camera.

posted by everichon 02 May | 16:26

They pump in an aerosol drug to make you more compliant.

posted by arse_hat 02 May | 17:25

I am not even going to make fun of you for wondering if it was a camera. The first time I noticed one of those (hnewly installed in a uni women's room!), I balked like a spooked cat, sloooooowly crept up to where it was affixed ~6 feet up in the corner, looked at the little black glassy panel* on its front face, and

jumped up in the air to get a better look!

I was mighty suspicious. Uh, then I smelled industrial strawberry and figured out it was an air freshener.

Or an air freshener and a recording device.

*That turns out to be the window, so they can check the level of freshener-goop.

posted by Elsa 02 May | 18:37

They pump in an aerosol drug to make you more compliant.

It's not working.

posted by Elsa 02 May | 18:41

I am not even going to make fun of you for wondering if it was a camera.

Thanks. Eh, maybe I've been watching the Graham Norton Show too much.
;-)

posted by shane 02 May | 19:13

You people. You live in a dream world - your "Freedom" is just an illusion, and if you haven't been keeping score, it's 1984 to nothing, and the balance isn't in your favour. They're everywhere, and they're watching.
Wake.
Up.
already and take a look around. Everywhere.

≡ Click to see image ≡
watching you...

posted by Zack_Replica 02 May | 23:36

God, I love this place and these people!!!! I'm laughing so hard I've got tears in my eyes. Or is it the spray eminating from that funny square thing on my wall?....

posted by redvixen 03 May | 17:58

Also, I can't believe you wore those same pants to work three days in a row, shane. Especially after you got that ketchup stain on the crotch on day two.

posted by cortex 04 May | 12:34

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