Sure, we all know that any creature with an opposable thumb can take great pictures, thanks to high-tech, digital point-and-shoots. But let’s leave the truly challenging photojournalism to video security cams. I’m mean, check out the first 32 seconds of this baby!

OK, maybe I don’t watch enough “Cops,” and maybe this won’t thrill you, and maybe I clearly can’t even think of a witty introduction, but do check out this video, which kind of feels like a home video for me, and consider this:

• This was filmed near where I live, in Buenos Aires. (Tigre, to be exact, which is like a suburb.)

• Commuter trains in Buenos Aires are huge and crisscross the city — above ground. (Yikes.)

• The picturesque train-crossing safety bars that come down — ding, ding, ding — are often ignored. (See video.)

• Porteños — the people of Buenos Aires — often ride two on a motorcycle, no helmets. (See video)

• Porteño men — even when not drunk — tend to be a little, um, nuts. (See video)

• I first saw the first 32 seconds of this footage twenty times in a row in a television store I had been passing. I was drawn in by the clerks cheering and yelling, like it was a soccer match.

• I was the first one to yell out loud, “Dale, gordo!”,  which seemed natural, and is like is kind of like, “You go, Man!”

• By the time I left the store, we were all chanting it. Dale, gordo! Dale!

And, that, my friends, is me sharing a little bit of my life in Buenos Aires, made possible by the photojournalism of a security cam.

Dale, gordo!

Tags: Buenos Aires, Life in Buenos Aires, Photojournalism, Security Camera Photography, Security Cameras, Tigre, Video Photojournalism