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[–] 70 points 3 months ago

Must've been the wind

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The irony of tracking cameras not having trackers inside them.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I imagine they are in the nearest trash bin, but who knows.

    (The broken cameras, no idea if they have trackers).

    "Sir it appears they cut it down, the next people came by and moved it off the sidewalk, the next people couldn't mow the lawn with it in the way so they through it off to the side, and the building owner had someone move it off his property by having someone put it in the trash so it didn't look like shit"

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If I saw someone sawing down a Flock camera, I probably didn’t see anyone.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    They actually don’t own the cameras though. They rent them for $3,500 annually.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hopefully the solar panels are being used for something useful now like charging some homeless person's phone.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Yo dawg, I think you need some cameras to monitor your cameras

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They also have a decent amount of RAM inside.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I imagine there are also some low level cops relieved to see them gone but don't want to say so publicly. After all, AI is coming for their jobs too. Pretty soon buying a state patrolman a Honda Goldwing to patrol the highway will be an impossible sell when we could just strap a few more cameras to a pole or fly a drone. Everyone but the bootlickiest of the bootlickers will eventually hit their breaking point with this increasing public surveillance, just not until it goes poorly for them personally.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I waa trying and probably failing to explain to someone that no matter who you are or what you believe, one day the fascists will demand of you something you don't want to do.

    Even if you're a cop.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    it was ICE. now go arrest them.

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    Wait, the cameras couldn’t tell you that?

    Must not have been very effective.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Look for someone in a cape. Bcs whoever it was is a hero.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    It was those damn pesky KIDS. DAMN KIDS.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    It was the tooth fairy

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Sounds like something a Flock camera could solve... upp, awwwwww. 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Are they just cable tied to the pole?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    They're basically traffic cams, right? So it's probably a Winona Ryder

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I...am FARTICUS!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Good trouble.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago
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