Too many chuggers?

I was out earlier monitoring the chuggers. They seemed quite well behaved. As I watched, they were almost religiously keeping to the "3 steps rule" that is designed to prevent them chasing you down the street. Then I realised there were 5 chuggers. What's so magic about 5? Well, there is a "Site Management Agreement" for 3 chuggers plus one team leader so I decided to try and capture some evidence!

Initial attemps with a still camera didn't go well. The street was very busy and it would be difficult to prove that all 5 were active at one time. So I switched to video mode. This was much better. In under two minutes, I'd caught them all! Another advantage of using video like this is that done right  no one can be sure your filming them. They just think it's a guy with an ordinary camera waving it around. Also, for a chugger-counting task, you don't need well composed pictures. Even a rear view of a chugger will do.

Slightly less good news when I checked the SMA at home. Although signed, it doesn't come into force for about 6 weeks.

Still, a useful practice run

Too late for this victim - digit extraction already commenced!

The woman with the red top mid-centre is the chugger. Look carefully for the faded "Shelter" on her back