Can’t retailers get better surveillance photos?

By Letter to the Editor on June 13, 2020.

Re: “Police looking to pick up scent of perfume thieves,” Lethbridge Herald June 4.

Looking at the grainy picture accompanying a short explanation about how two very clever thieves who managed to rob four separate Shoppers Drug Marts on the same day of $13,000 of product, I wondered how Musk’s Space X from hundreds of kilometres outside the Earth’s gravitational pull can send back perfect pictures of two guys floating around their space capsule plus copious pictures of everything spacey but retailers on Earth can’t get a usable (clear) image of someone stealing them blind, mere feet away from the crime that’s unfolded, in four different locations. Unbelievable!

Those thieves are wasting their talent – they should be working for NASA or Elon Musk.

Alvin W. Shier

Lethbridge