Yesterday, fifth anniversary of the Iraq occupation, was supposed to be a big protest day, though Metro didn’t feel like it. Nothing much showed up on traffic cameras around DC, except for one at McPherson Square, where people seemed to be confronting a police line while a paper-machie bomb with a Strangelove-style Bush effigy atop it looked on. I used a small wget-like script to fetch images on a two second refresh, and got this time lapse.
By late afternoon it had started raining, and the protesters were gone. Photos on DCist.
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Why does the camera keep moving around, spending so much time on non-traffic areas? Is this one of the Web-controllable cameras?
From the way it moves and what it focuses on I think the camera is manually controlled, probably by someone at MPD.
Needs more ’splosions!