Amazing. How true is this? Anyone got a source?
Edit: ah, they only had 8 cameras. Still, that's amazing.
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The flock flew away to the southern hemisphere for their yearly migration, I'm sure their babies will be back next year.
Whomever the suspect was they were fucking my mother that night and there is no way they could have done it because it was going on all night long.
This is a known issue with flock systems, sometimes they just do that.
The weird thing is, if I ever see someone tearing down Flock cameras, actually no I didn't.
The top fell off
Agreed, a well known software bug is taking flock cameras down across the country. Hopefully they can fix it before it gets too out of hand.
Yeah it was really weird. I saw one just destroy itself.
Serious issue.
If the surveillance cameras can’t even catch the persons who removed all of their cameras, then they have proven to be worthless at catching real criminals, with their only proven worth is stalking police officers ex wives.
People removing surveillance cameras taxpayers didn't approve aren't "criminals". The proper term is heroes.
That's just not true. Sometimes they haven't even met the women they're stalking.
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Must have been the wind
This is a city of ~25K people, so quite small. Several articles have pointed out that the city, not Flock, bears the costs of the vandalism, so in this instance the city counsel that enabled the city to enter into the contract with Flock to the detriment of its citizens have now burdened the city with a substantial budget item. If the cameras are replaced, you can bet that they will likely be torn down again. At some point there will be a reckoning with voters, and hopefully the idiots that enabled the surveillance state will be voted out.
Even if it's the city that beats the cost, at some point they will decide it's no longer worth the cost to replace them.
They don't even have to be voted out if the voters persuade them to resign.
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All of Winona, Minnesota was with me, in Switzerland, on a river on an inflatable raft, enjoying the heat wave. Couldn't have been them.
The cameras fell down on their own
Let me know if you find who did it, so I can go down on them until my jaw rots off.
One witness said "I'm Glad members of the community do civic duties, but we don't need to active about finding their identity, I'm sure they did it as a gift for society"
"I was right there with a bodycam when they all tore themselves down but it was turned off for, uh, routine maintenance."
Holy shit I just had the epiphany of a lifetime. I have that fucking cutter.
Nothin to it but for you to do it.
Flock off
I thought Winona had a big brown beaver...perhaps I was mistaken
They're easy to cut down for now. The next step is going to be making them radio antenna's that mount on light poles so they're way harder to see or reach. The camera function will get removed, since it isn't needed anyway.
Since one goal is to make this such an expensive headache, not for Flock exactly, but for the cities paying for Flock, I don't think a light post should give anyone pause beyond proper PPE.
Theyre already on light poles I'm petty sure. My flock detector went off in a part of a road that's only trees and utility poles
people will start cutting down utilities, and then people will get really mad about such volatile devices being placed on critical infrastructure
No, they've already released the next step - it's a drone that watches from 2 kilofeet up.
Guess I have to start training on shooting at a 45 degree angle up, instead of head on.
Thanks for the tip!
I ain’t did it, I ain’t know who did it, and I ain’t never gonna convict anybody charged for doing this or any similar so-called crime if I’m on the jury
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