Curiosidade do dia

Numa época de Big Brothers, de câmaras de vigilância em todo o lado, onde nos podemos esconder, como podemos passar incógnitos? 

Só mesmo à vista de todos. Brilhante!!!

Foi o que retirei de "At Louvre, Neon Safety Vests Made Thieves All But Invisible" publicado no NYT de passado dia 24 de Outubro:

"When clothing manufacturers first made high-visibility jackets, the purpose was to make the laborers who wore them as visible as possible. But brightly colored safety clothes are now so ubiquitous that they often have the opposite effect so that the wearer blends in, even as the bold colors catch the eye.

That can make safety gear a key part of the criminal's toolkit. On Sunday, when thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris and stole $102 million worth of jewelry, two of them wore neon-colored safety vests. 

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Experts say the neon items help criminals operate in plain sight.

"High-vis clothing carries a strange paradox," said Caroline Stevenson, the program director of cultural and historical studies at the London College of Fashion. "It's meant to make the wearable visible in industrial or hazardous spaces, yet often it renders the wearer socially invisible," she said.

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If you are dressed as "a police officer, construction worker or maybe a priest," Brand said, "people think you're fine."

Craig Jackson, a professor of occupational health psychology at Birmingham City University in England, said that high-visibility safety jackets had become such a ubiquitous symbol of authority - like a clipboard or a reporter's microphone — that they were like "a cloak of invisibility.""