"If you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?"
- Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt
- Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt
Harold Hurtt has suggested that surveillance cameras be placed "in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes", according to this story in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. In response, I hereby found....
The Hurtt Prize
The Hurtt Prize is a $2200 (and growing) reward for the first person who can provide definitive videotaped evidence of Houston police chief Harold Hurtt committing a crime, any crime. This evidence will posted here and forward to the Houston Police Department along with a demand that action be taken.
I am putting up $1000 of my own money for this prize, but if you think this is a good idea, and wish to pledge some of your own money for the potential winner of the Hurtt Prize, send an email to bounty@HurttPrize.org with your Name and Location (city and state). If you want to pledge anonymously let me know, otherwise your name, location and the amount you are pledging will be posted here. If you are pledging $100 or more please include your phone number so I can give you a call to verify the pledge.
Other stories and audio clips:
* http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3661414.html
* http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/3663189.html
Recent pledges
Pledge of $25:
Ben Godfrey
Houston, TX
Pledge of $20:
Matthew Bryan (http://www.freefreedomtoldhere.blogspot.com/)
North Las Vegas, NV
Pledge of $10:
Laurence Simon
Houston, TX
Pledge of $10:
So-Called "Austin Mayor"
DuPage County Illinois
Pledge of $50:
Eric Fithian
Alexandria, VA
Pledge of $25:
Michael Keferl
Ise, Japan
Pledge of $50:
Geoffrey Richards (SisterGeoff of the Superlative Suppository)
Charlotte, NC
Pledge of $25:
Jen C.
Denver, CO
View other pledges
Others weigh in
"Hurtt is trying to keep idiots who drive cars from killing me and my family at intersections. Why don't you get a life?"
-Breck Porter (Editor Galveston County Police News)
"I think Chief Hurtt needs to be challenged publicly to place surveillance webcams in his home and workplace. 'If he is not doing anything wrong, why should he worry about it?'"
-Harvey Madison (Lubbock, TX)
"I would also like to see someone go through his trash each week (legal, I believe) for something, anything. Perhaps posting his address and particulars about his family (where children attend school, wife's employer, etc.) would help potential prizewinners in their quest."
-Justin Park (Syracuse, NY)
"I will throw in my wife's stun gun, fully charged, for the arresting officer to use multiple times so as to subdue chief Hurtt."
-Tom Bazan (Houston, Texas)
"I will pledge $25 if you will broaden the scope of the quest to include finding video of Hurtt doing anything or being anywhere he wouldn't want his wife or his mother (or the public) to know about. The danger isn't that cameras will find us doing something criminal, but rather, doing something private, something that is no one else's business."
-Leonard Grossman
"I think you should offer $1 for every amateur photo of the Chief. Flood the internet with photos of him doing the most banal things, see how he likes that."
-Chris Wentz
A request
If anyone has graphic design skills and is willing to design a little banner or button for the Hurtt Prize that people could put on their websites that would be excellent
Some banners you can use
Thanks to Arnaud Marthouret for these!
Thanks to Daniel Horton for these!
Thanks to Will Munslow for these!
