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I sometimes get some curious stories on the use of surveillance cameras, and today was one of them. Upon opening my email this morning, there was a note from Dallmeier, which is a German maker of surveillance cameras. Reading the email before coffee, I saw six things that jumped out at me:

1. IP surveillance camera and recording
2. Underwater bicycling
3. Legos
4. Tiny house
5. Fish tank
6. Guinness

Ok, let me put this together for you, because that's a list of things that seem very unrelated. Lloyd Godson is going for a Guinness World Record, and this is one of those obscure records -- he's going for "the largest amount of electricity ever produced by riding a bicycle underwater." Yep, it's that kind of record.

So, here's how Lloyd is going to do it. At the end of this month, starting on March 30, 2010, Lloyd is moving into a tiny house that measures 8'x5', which he has to stay in for 14 days. But this is no normal tiny house, no, this house is at the bottom of a really massive fish tank, and by really massive, I mean that the tank holds more than 141,000 gallons of water. Drink up, Lloyd!

But this is not your run-of-the-mill massive fish tank. This tank earns special credit because it's at "Legoland Atlantis by Sea Life", which means that everything decorative inside the tanks is built from over one million Legos (not the fish -- they're real). So there's Lloyd, living in the bottom of a fish tank inside a theme park, pedaling hard every day on his bicycle that doubles as a power generator as he lives in a house that's smaller than some homes' walk-in closets, and the entire time he's doing it, he's going to be recorded by a Dallmeier-made IP surveillance camera and video recorder that are there for Guinness World Records' evidentiary purposes.

What this really makes me think is that Lloyd might be going for two Guinness records. Sure, he's going to try to generate a lot of power underwater on a bicycle, but when you stack up the strange elements in this story, I'm thinking Lloyd may also be going for "Most bizarre way to spend 2 weeks". Good luck, Lloyd.

[If you think you can top this story for strangest use of video surveillance equipment, send me a note to editor@securityinfowatch.com or add a comment to this post. If it's even stranger than this one, I'll happily buy you a beer at ISC West.]

-Geoff