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surveillance disguised as the world's most boring marathon, fueled by cold coffee and patience.
means A prolonged period of watching a place or person under cover, usually by police or investigators waiting for something to happen.
from A 20th-century American compound, built from 'stake' and 'out.' The 'stake' here is the surveyor's and homesteader's stake — a marker driven into the ground to claim a patch of territory — so 'staking out' a spot once meant marking off your turf. Police slang borrowed that sense of planting yourself firmly in one place and stretched it into the modern meaning: claiming a vantage point and refusing to leave it.
- bladder problem
- Detectives keep empty bottles for the obvious reason
- car choice
- The boring vehicle is the effective vehicle
- time cost
- Real stakeouts can stretch into weeks
- camouflage
- Looking bored is the whole disguise
- word origin
- From a stake marking a watched, claimed spot
operation long watch — us marshals staked out fugitive eric frein in the pocono mountains for 48 days in 2014