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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper ready with an explanation as to why such an enlightened city as Madison has yet to provide its police force with body cameras. The keeper has learned that it is all due to an early misunderstanding regarding the true function of body cameras: the impression somehow emerged that body cameras would be used to amass an inventory of all Madison residents’ bodies.
This news was received with indifference, even some enthusiasm in the campus area with its preponderance of young, supple bodies. But as the false information made its way out into the business community and then the residential areas the idea of an image of your body as part of an official inventory became increasingly unacceptable to an overweight and sagging citizenry.
Then when the retirement community heard that images of their aging bodies would be part of official records there was a virtual uproar complete with protesters marching on suburban streets dressed in teepee and pup tent type clothing and carrying signs that said, “TIME DOES THIS TO ALL BODIES!”
It now appears that the Madison body camera misunderstanding may be cleared up as city officials take another run at the issue. At least that is what the keeper is telling Phyllis, based on information he overheard in the Vista West elevator on his way down to the exercise room.
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