Always cool reading a HN post to a reaction Tweet/Toot of a screenshot, from a newspaper article, about something the reporter read in a chatroom, that happened

Always cool reading a HN post to a reaction Tweet/Toot of a screenshot, from a newspaper article, about something the reporter read in a chatroom, that happened to someone else. That is a form of humor, but obviously cops know binary search and any smart person wouldn't get this joke. They'd be thinking, having actually searched video for an incident it's a PiTA. It's not just half, half, half. You won't necessarily be able to see the bike well. The store won't want to hand over everything they have to a cop who doesn't even know when it happened.... did it happen, is the cop lying if they know so little? Not great cops having the right to search all footage to the dawn of humanity without a warrant either. But I guess for a kid in high school having learned an algorithm they can pwn cops with (in their head) it's more funny. The missing next paragraph from the newspaper article - "I made a (slightly more diplomatic) nuisance of myself and they eventually looked at the footage. The policewoman I dealt with was lovely about it, but in the end the image wasn’t clear. Maybe they were right not to bother."