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Apr 21, 2009
A solution to empty shopping malls.
With Century Plaza in Birmingham and Montgomery Mall empty or emptying, a story this morning from USA today game be an idea on saving those retail centers. The story tells of two FBI employees using surveillance cameras at a shopping mall to spy on teen girls trying on prom dresses. Here's a line from the local newspaper:
The criminal complaint stated that the two men were on duty in the FBI’s satellite control room, which coincidentally is located at Middletown Mall. The two allegedly stopped a security camera over a makeshift dressing room that had been set up to allow the girls to try on dresses during the event.
The FBI satellite control room is in a mall in West Virginia? Bingo! (No, wait, that's another idea for the malls.) Maybe we can lease Montgomery Mall and Century Plaza to the FBI! Naturally the real story here in the presence of the FBI at the mall in the first place. We'll be watching for details.
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West Virginia has long been known for luring departments of Federal agencies out of DC and its suburbs. WV is close enough to DC to be convenient to the agencies, and officials don't mind living in that area.
ReplyDeleteSo, I'm not surprised about the FBI being out there in some shopping mall.