Post by silverdragon on Jun 24, 2014 8:29:10 GMT
This one came up during a rather alcoholic discussion at the bar the other night...
No someone I know is rather fond of quoting "Might just be true" tales that have a habit of getting you scared... if you believe him...
He says that in certain clothing stores that are favoured by shop lifters, they have two-way mirrors in changing rooms to spot those who "Try on" clothes and never take them off....
The truth is they count the number of items you take in with you and count them back out again, as spying on people who change clothes is considered freakish and bad form?....
But anyway, he says that older clothes stores still have the mirrors.
Ok, so, if the mirror is free standing or hung on the wall its easy to test.
If its built in to the wall, to prevent people stealing even that, its harder.
He claimed the fingernail test.
If you press your finger to the mirror so the nail touches it, if their is a gap between nail and reflection, its just a mirror...
If there is no gap, its a two-way....
I dont have a two-way mirror handy to test this.
But other myths, is there any other way to test for a two-way mirror....
Providing of course you cant just take the thing off the wall and have a look round the back, or you cant just walk into the next room and check kind of thing....
They used to have two-way mirrors in places I work at to hide security guards behind.These have gone, they have camera's everywhere.
I dont mind them, they prove I dont do anything suspicions....
Except one security guard complained to me one day that its rather off-putting to him that when I waive and say good morning to him, through the camera's, he has to restrain himself from waiving back at his screen?...
Of course, I do it even more now...
But its a joke between us, he cam move one of the camera's, and he now "waives" back....(Up/down/up/down tilt...)
No someone I know is rather fond of quoting "Might just be true" tales that have a habit of getting you scared... if you believe him...
He says that in certain clothing stores that are favoured by shop lifters, they have two-way mirrors in changing rooms to spot those who "Try on" clothes and never take them off....
The truth is they count the number of items you take in with you and count them back out again, as spying on people who change clothes is considered freakish and bad form?....
But anyway, he says that older clothes stores still have the mirrors.
Ok, so, if the mirror is free standing or hung on the wall its easy to test.
If its built in to the wall, to prevent people stealing even that, its harder.
He claimed the fingernail test.
If you press your finger to the mirror so the nail touches it, if their is a gap between nail and reflection, its just a mirror...
If there is no gap, its a two-way....
I dont have a two-way mirror handy to test this.
But other myths, is there any other way to test for a two-way mirror....
Providing of course you cant just take the thing off the wall and have a look round the back, or you cant just walk into the next room and check kind of thing....
They used to have two-way mirrors in places I work at to hide security guards behind.These have gone, they have camera's everywhere.
I dont mind them, they prove I dont do anything suspicions....
Except one security guard complained to me one day that its rather off-putting to him that when I waive and say good morning to him, through the camera's, he has to restrain himself from waiving back at his screen?...
Of course, I do it even more now...
But its a joke between us, he cam move one of the camera's, and he now "waives" back....(Up/down/up/down tilt...)
