Yesterday my wife was hungry so we stopped at Dick’s.  A sign there read, “You are being videotaped for your safety.”

     Totally absurd statement, video taping me is not making me safer in any significant way.

     So I told the employee that I did not want to be video taped, that it did not make me feel safer, and that it was an unreasonable invasion of my privacy, and I delivered these words with absolute dead pan sincerity.

     The employee was obviously taken back.  But then I added…

     “Your equipment taking my image is stealing my soul”, said with the same dead pan delivery and at that point I could see he was seriously disturbed, so at that point I cracked a smile, he realized I was screwing with him, and we placed our order.

     When he brought the food, I told him I was willing to license the use of my image for say $200 per frame.  Keep in mind most video is working at 30 frames per second, that works out to around $6000 per second of video.  Seemed reasonable enough.