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“I would say it’s 100 percent sloppy police work,” says Dion Nordick of Grand Forks, B.C., Canada. “It’s Charlie Brown technique.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been conducting surveillance on him, apparently trying to get evidence that he’s been spraying graffiti tags in town. He found two motion-activated cameras in trees in front of his house, and took them down. He looked at the photos they took and found shots of him and his friends coming and going from his house — as well as photos of drug busts, suicide victims, and wounds on assault victims. “That corpse that I viewed is someone’s loved one,” Nordick said. “Those pictures of that woman standing in her brassiere, covered in bruises — she probably had a hard time letting the police take those pictures.” How did he find the cameras in the first place? When they took photos at night, they used a flash. He turned the cameras over to his lawyer, who says it’s illegal to trespass on private property to install such devices without a warrant. A police spokesman complained, “someone has committed a criminal act and stolen our cameras.” (RC/CBC) ...If you wondered what “Charlie Brown” level police work is, that spokesman is trying to rise to it.