It's a historic site. The bridge is 130 years old. It would not surprise me that there was a camera somewhere to monitor the bridge. It's practically falling apart. I'm not saying the pictures came from one source or another, I just want to point out there are cameras EVERYWHERE. This man doesn't appear to be the focus of the picture since it's safe to assume this has been significantly zoomed in and cropped. Until LE says something other than video, I'm going to assume their initials comments of video in the area are accurate. Jmo
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I respectfully disagree, and I was convinced it was a deer cam grab, initially.
Then I read a post further back in the thread, and it jogged my memory. I've hiked/jogged/walked/run in many parks over the years. Never once noticed a trail cam.
As an aside, far as park safety is concerned, one park I've run in many times is in Columbia, SC. They had park rangers (city or county), and they would get people off of the trail around sunset. Why? They knew vagrants lived in the park, and as for myself I remember smelling tobacco while running along after sunset. The rangers would grab their ATV's and would urge people to let them drive them back to the parking lot.
That's an extreme case, but it illustrates that while in public parks there can be some vulnerability involved, but enjoying activities in them are at one's own risk. Why? Liability. If a municipality like Delphi puts up cameras, well someone has to monitor those cameras. If something happens, say someone tries to sue the city over something that 'happens' in the park, and it's caught on camera, then somebody could try and ratchet up the situation, and say "well somebody should have been watching the video from those cameras". That may seem petty, but we live in a litigious society. Let your imagination run wild from there.
So a bank has offered to have cams put up in the park. They will have to enter into a contract with the City of Delphi, or whoever is responsible for the park, that way all parties involved are absolved of any liability.
I know a little about this stuff from having helped build a trail in Upstate, NY, a while ago