http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/12/05/article/short_stack_food_for_thought_quick_and_over_easy

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It may sound like a pitch for a paranormal TV series, but the city of Greensboro may install cameras in public cemeteries for a purely earthly reason: to prevent vandalism.

Such solar-powered cameras already are rotated among parks as a deterrent to after-hours intruders. Each camera activates when it detects a trespasser. Next, it announces, via a speaker, that the park is closed and (smile) your photo is being taken. Then it snaps three photos of the unwilling models, who tend to run away and stay away. Talk about a frightful experience.

At $6,000 a pop, the cameras don't come cheap, so the city is looking for donors to sponsor them in the four city cemeteries. But they seem well worth the investment.

Meanwhile, the city should revisit a consultant's idea to install surveillance cameras in other places to help stretch a thinly staffed police department.