Capture Burglars with a Webcam
Here's the perfect geek story. It's not uncommon for stores to have video surveillance set up, but this geek set up a camera with motion detection software in his house. When a burglar broke in, not only did the computer capture the perp's image, but it sent the images to an on-line site so the owner could retrieve them even when the computer itself was stolen. The story was picked up by the BBC and another British news site. Nice.