We cheered for a vigilante who presumably shot a health insurance CEO to death, too.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2026
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No, the presumption is innocence.
He has admitted in court to doing it.
Cutting these things down is fine and all, more power to you. In decently sized cities, they’ll just replace them and it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Go to noalprs.com and sign up - look for a local group and show up to city hall. If your town isn’t on the map, create a group. There has been enormous success by pointing out the privacy risks, security failures, potential for abuse, 3rd party data collection, etc. When a contract is cancelled, ALL those cameras go down. Seriously, sign up and fight. Angry folks at town halls make change.
Yep, while being a vigilante and likely getting caught get's headlines, the better action is use your legal rights, show up to city, county and state meetings and get them banned all together. Getting your representatives to answer to the people is the best course of action and always the most productive one long term for actual change.
Lpt: a circular saw is quicker than a sawzall on 2in aluminum pipes. If you aren't sure what kind of metal you're working with, use a magnet. If it sticks, use a sawzall. If it doesn't, use a circular saw. With a little practice, you can get through a 2in pipe in under 45 seconds (12s is my record for 2in aluminum pipe)
How you use that little tidbit of info is up to you I guess, I just like sharing information about metalworking, since I'm a hobby level blacksmith.
And just in case you want to go camping with your metalworking tools, as one does, there are some decent brands that fit nicely in a backpack, and you can get around your campground quickly with bicycles. Just don't bring your phone, they ruin bike trips.
Handheld band saw for the pros:
https://www.milwaukeetool.com/products/details/m18-fuel-dual-trigger-deep-cut-band-saw-kit/2929s-22
They are typically at least 2.85in in diameter, not 2in. They describe them on the sales receipt/contract.
Rotating around the circumference of a pipe makes the circumference inconsequential. As long as they aren't 2.5 in thick in the wall of the pipe, you're good.
If they are 2.5 in thick, an oxyacetylene torch can be carried by two people rather easily.
Someone on Tiktok is testing this on poles in his yard... Circular saw and reciprocating saw are basically almost exactly the same time due to having to turn the circular saw around. An angle grinder was actually slightly faster than the two, but much more nosier.
These were all tested with cheap blades.
Angle grinder?
Like ridiculously noisy, much more noisy than a circular or reciprocating.
Typically going to take more time than the circular saw with ferrous pipe, but approximately the same amount of time as a sawz-all in the case of aluminum or lead piping.
Another Journeyman Blacksmith, and Apprentice Redsmith and Whitesmith.
A local guy just got caught taking down a decoy camera that the cops set up to get whoever had been cutting down cameras in the area.
So they caught him, but the mayor seemed irritated about the decoy operation, which she wasn't aware of. She wondered who paid for the camera, but it turned out to be a 3D print that one of the cops did at home. Aloarently city council were already debating removing the cameras, and the mayor seems to be on the negative side.
Anyway, whenever the story comes on the news, I vocally declare my support for the guy, to anyone who happens to be in the room.
Fuck right off with this title.
It's anger against the goddamn fascist fucks watching the cameras.
I'm definitely cheering them on because I'm too chicken shit to do it myself.
You could go to city and county meetings and help get these things banned altogether. Legal and a much more effective way to do things.
I like that idea.
Practice your second amendment on a flock of cameras.
You’ll need to use your 5th.
Direct some of that ire at the employees who are supposed to work for We The People, but they did this to us, with sneaky means to avoid public knowledge, with our taxes. Seems against the alleged founding values.
Something is rotten,
They work for We The People,
But lie to us all
Not just Americans. I'd love for this company to die before they go global.
There's one across the street that captures my home. I fantasize about taking it out in a number of creatively destructive methods.
You don't need to destroy it. A black trash bag over the camera and/or solar panel and wrapped with tape will be sufficient.
No, because it still collects data from every wireless device in range.
Not when it doesn't have power.
Green laser?
Maybe not here, but post the location to a group of antiflockers, suggest it's pointing at a home and shouldn't be, suggest maybe it should be removed.
You can stay pretty anonymous.
There are those of us who wouldn't mind just quietly popping by a week later and taking care of that for ya.
If any are close by it certainly might get done.
There is a group in my town who is starting an open letter/petition to the city council to have them removed. I feel like that's the safer and more lasting way to get them down here. The one pointing towards my home is right next to a school and any kind of tampering would be readily seen and fixed
Wait a second... What direction is the camera in relation to you? Is it any bit east of you?
What I am getting at is a concave mirror and the sun might be able to assist greatly with your privacy concerns... At least from the camera angle.
It could potentially work. My home is along a road that runs northeast to southwest. The facade of my home faces southeast towards the camera, which is on the opposite side of the road. the camera faces northeast. See DeFlock screenshot
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