23 Wild ‘Bet They Didn’t Want Anyone to See That’ Moments Caught on Security Cameras

The words “surveillance state” are trotted out for comedic effect nowadays, but the fact is, the phrase is meaningless. We’ve entirely crossed that Rubicon and gotten to a point where we just tune out cameras duly staring at us through every hour of every day — which was, of course, the intent all along. We’ve become so completely tolerant of being in a dozen live recordings while doing even the most basic of errands that I don’t think our eyes even clock them anymore. Our brain just fills in supermarket ceiling corners like we’re Westworld robots looking at our own blueprints. 

This means that people will engage in activity they definitely would prefer no one observe, even though being unobserved by anyone is impossible in 2025. You’re lucky if it’s not streamed on Twitch. 

Here then, is a collection of Redditors who saw someone behaving in a way that sure suggested they weren’t aware they had a video camera trained on them, including a lot of people who chose strange places to poop.