People Describe The Craziest Thing They've Ever Caught On A Security Camera

We've all heard about the importance of dancing like no one is watching, and even how our characters are defined by how we behave when we think we're alone.

But there are things that some people are willing to do in public spaces, simply because they think they're the only ones in the room, that are alarming.

Cringing in anticipation, Redditor TeeKay4273 asked:

"Security personnel who monitor the security cameras feed, what crazy things have you seen?"

Waiting to Make Their Move

"The most common is how people sneak into back rooms for theft and shoplifting. You’ll see someone just dead still on one side of the room or in a side hallway, waiting for the place to clear out, while people just walk past, oblivious to someone like 10 feet away from them. Very horror movie."

- Time-Space-Anomaly

Everyone Has Two Sides

"I had a weird experience, this guy came into our building at work (back when I worked in an office), it was one of our coworker's ex-boyfriends."

"He thought one of us was [sleeping with] his ex-girlfriend, and started getting violent. I tried pushing him out but he started swinging and caught me in the face, so I put him in a rear naked chokehold and just put him to sleep. Didn't hurt him at all, didn't punch him, just choked him unconscious."

"After that got settled, a girl in the office was like, 'I always thought of you as a peaceful guy, I can't look at you the same way anymore, that was so ugly and violent.' She said it in a really bad way, like I did something wrong and she didn't want to talk to me anymore."

"Dunno what the f**k else I was supposed to do, the guy was literally red in the face with rage and punched me in the face."

- Kahlil_Cabron

Every Bear's Dream

"I installed a bunch of CCTV cameras in a large berry packing facility. I was there for a couple of weeks for commissioning."

"One evening a black bear wanders into the plant through one of the forklift doors (they just have the clear vinyl 'curtains' when operating) The bear finds a stack of freshly-picked berries that hadn't yet been processed and just goes to town."

"After about 20 minutes, I guess they had enough, and they left the way they came."

- Rampage_Rick

Those Darn Slot Machines

"I worked as a Surveillance agent at a Casino. There were cameras everywhere."

"One night, an elderly lady got up from a slot machine, but her foot was caught on her sweater which was caught on the swivel chair. She fell and the way she landed on her ankle, it made her ankle bone snap. I could see the bone and all."

- bserikstad

Unique Cruise Adventures

"Luxury cruise line for older folks. Loads of old people walking the hallways naked disconnected from the world on sleeping meds."

- squarerigjack

"I went on my first cruise a month ago. Every now and then, if I'm in a strange place and have had a few drinks, I will sleep walk. It's super rare, hasn't happened to me in years. But for some reason, the second or third night there, I woke up in the middle of the night to pee in just my boxers. I was fully woken up by the door to our room slamming shut and found myself in the hallway. No phone, no cardkey, only in my boxers, and about to p**s myself."

"It was like a literal nightmare, haha. My only option was to sprint as fast as I could down like three floors to the first public restroom to p**s, praying that nobody was out and about. Made it there in the clear, did my business, then tried to figure out my plan. My wife was in the room, but it was the middle of the night, who knew if she would wake up to door knocking. But it was my only hope."

"So I peeked out the bathroom doors, saw nobody, and sprinted back up three floors, taking like four steps at a time, haha. Got to my room, knocked quietly, nothing, little bit harder, nothing, then just kinda banged on it. All the while just sure someone was gonna turn the corner and see me."

"Thank god my wife opened the door and let me in, and I hadn't run into anyone. But as I drifted back to sleep, I kind of giggled at the thought of security watching me on the cameras in my nightmare jog to the bathroom and back in my underwear."

- Secret_Map

Do What You Gotta Do

"When I worked at Toys R Us, we had a guy set up and entire bedroom with a TV and Nintendo up on the third tier in the warehouse. The guy slept there all the time. No one squealed on him because we just knew he had a rough household."

"Management made him the Warehouse Supervisor since he knew where everything was at all times."

- CaptainofFTST

Disrespect for Others' Property

"So many. I was a loss prevention manager in retail in a past life. Saw a woman change her baby's diaper inside a round coat rack, using the coats to wipe the baby."

"Saw a thief conceal a boom box between her legs under a full flounced prairie skirt and walk normally through the length of the store and right out the front door."

"Saw a clocked-in male employee sleep through an entire shift on the top rack of shelving in a stock room. Let him sleep and kept the camera recording for over five hours."

- Ruby-Skylar

"What happens in these cases like with mom and baby? Do you just write it off, or press for charges?"

- spryfigure

"Apprehended. Offered to allow her to purchase soiled property or I'd call the police and charge her for destruction/damage of property. She paid for the coats, around $300 if I remember correctly. She was permanently banned from the store."

- Ruby-Skylar

A Glitch in the System!

"Myself."

"The latency on these cameras was horses**t, several times I'd come in from writing up a truck and see one sitting at the gate again, then I'd see me roll out there with my clipboard and growing bald spot."

"One time the cameras froze long enough for me to call the yard manager and have him come out and see the truck sitting at the entrance on the screen, while the same truck was now sitting at the exit gate."

"Management didn't care, but boy howdy did they like to b***h at us when we missed something on this potato they tricked into running Windows."

- Guvnah_T_Boggs

So Incredibly Inappropriate

"I manage a residential building. The super called me in the morning and said Eddie, the overnight guy, brought his girlfriend over. They went to the children's playroom and hooked up on the beanbag chair."

"Now, Eddie KNEW there was a camera there, it's his job to sit at the desk and watch the monitors."

"I never like terminating people, but it made it very easy.

- IvoShandor

Some People Prefer Eggs, But This Guy...

"I saw some guy driving around throwing cheese slices on cars at 2:00 AM."

- The68Guns

Mystery: Unsolved

"A family member worked at a parking garage. She found a gun at work one day in the garbage and decided to look at their footage to see how it got there."

"Never did find out but they did learn that a naked man with a cone hat and wand was doing some sort of 'ceremony' on the roof of the garage."

- gbell11

Caught at the Scene of the Crime

"I popped in on a courthouse security monitoring area to fix a computer. The camera guy said, 'Watch this,' and showed me a drunk guy getting in his car, scraping up the car next to him, and trying to run."

"They were monitoring because the judge in his DUI case called to have him arrested for a DUI on a suspended license in the courthouse parking lot."

- marmot1101

A Humbling Experience

"I realized how bad the bald spot on the back of my head was."

- SadShoe27

Got All of Our Ducks in a Row

"LPO (Loss Prevention Officer) here. I see crazy s**t all the time."

"One of the creepiest things I have seen was a string of toys moving on its own down an aisle. It was like a duck with smaller ducks."

"Of course, I had to investigate. When I zoomed in, I was surprised to see that they were real ducks."

- ggfdxgf

Most of these were gross or mortifying to think about, especially when realizing that people did these things in public spaces.

But some of these were just funny and a great reminder that embarrassing things are going to happen to all of us from time to time.