NewsDude
08-01-2008, 03:30 PM
The "Big One" it wasn't, but Tuesday's earthquake still played a starring role.
Ubiquitous cell-phone and surveillance cameras recorded the 5.4 temblor in real time as the Los Angeles area was shaking, and those images were instantly shared with the world. And this being the heart of TV Land, television cameras also caught the action.
Judge Judy Sheindlin scrambled from the courtroom set of her "Judge Judy" show as a frightened-looking plaintiff and defendant were left to fend for themselves. At the set of "Family Court With Judge Penny," Penny Brown Reynolds dove under her desk while gallery spectators dashed for the door.
At CBS' "Big Brother" house, a few of the residents appeared to be napping when the reality of an earthquake startled them awake at 11:42 a.m.
"Oh my ***, this is so scary," shouts one, while another rousts the rest of the house's residents, telling them to get outside.
Surveillance recordings showed people running out of stores as everything from bottles of booze to bicycles crashed to the floor.
Bryce Dupriest, a mechanic at the InCycle bicycle shop in San Dimas, is seen in the store's widely viewed surveillance video of people racing out the back door as the quake sends rows of bikes and shelves full of accessories toppling to the floor.
"I am the gentleman with the short hair at the bottom of the screen wearing the red shirt, one of the people who had to hurdle over the bike that was dropped in the middle of the floor," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.
"If it had sound it would have been funnier," Dupriest said of the video. "What starts the mad dash is the boss running out the back and yelling to get out."
At Los Angeles International Airport, surveillance cameras recorded people using their cell-phone cameras to...
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Ubiquitous cell-phone and surveillance cameras recorded the 5.4 temblor in real time as the Los Angeles area was shaking, and those images were instantly shared with the world. And this being the heart of TV Land, television cameras also caught the action.
Judge Judy Sheindlin scrambled from the courtroom set of her "Judge Judy" show as a frightened-looking plaintiff and defendant were left to fend for themselves. At the set of "Family Court With Judge Penny," Penny Brown Reynolds dove under her desk while gallery spectators dashed for the door.
At CBS' "Big Brother" house, a few of the residents appeared to be napping when the reality of an earthquake startled them awake at 11:42 a.m.
"Oh my ***, this is so scary," shouts one, while another rousts the rest of the house's residents, telling them to get outside.
Surveillance recordings showed people running out of stores as everything from bottles of booze to bicycles crashed to the floor.
Bryce Dupriest, a mechanic at the InCycle bicycle shop in San Dimas, is seen in the store's widely viewed surveillance video of people racing out the back door as the quake sends rows of bikes and shelves full of accessories toppling to the floor.
"I am the gentleman with the short hair at the bottom of the screen wearing the red shirt, one of the people who had to hurdle over the bike that was dropped in the middle of the floor," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.
"If it had sound it would have been funnier," Dupriest said of the video. "What starts the mad dash is the boss running out the back and yelling to get out."
At Los Angeles International Airport, surveillance cameras recorded people using their cell-phone cameras to...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61072)