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Regretful cities aren’t sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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Do also the other thing, where you brake it apart. Same thing, but it’s permanently.
I read the beginning of the title as “Cities are Cowering” and now I think it could easily be a part of an alternate title.
Like your the damn government… Just remove the devices, tell Flock where they can pick them up in the next two weeks otherwise they will be sold as is on open market and pay the termination fee or potential lawsuit. Cities get sued like all the time and I am confident even a moderately competent lawyer could find a cheap way out.
Makes them more easily identifiable so they can be properly disposed of.
I guess technically they already are in a trashbag.
You can 100% remove them with a baseball bat.
They are the city. They can send public works out there to dismantle the cameras and then send Flock the bill for it, if they are unwilling to dismantle themselves.
Why aren’t they just… Removing them?
Oh. Its probably because removing them is unnecessarily complicated so they need the company to come do it for them.
You don’t have to worry about a complicated removal if you have an angle grinder.
You’d be surprised how few worries I have when I’m brandishing an angle grinder
on a totally unrelated topic, but harbor freight is a great place to get affordable tools.
And if you time your visit right, free bucket!
Bucket is always free if you got your grinder with you.
If you had read the article you’d know that the cities aren’t sure if they can remove them under the terms of their contracts with flock. So they’re covering them while working that out.
I in fact did not read the article.
I’m pretty sure one city did remove them and then Flock just came and put new ones up which is what lead to the trash bags.
We don’t do that here bro
Why read all article when some article good enough?
What am I? Some kind of readist? A phisosopher?
READING FOR NERDS
I’ve heard the excuse that they’re private property so they can’t. They’re not hard to remove though. They’re usually just attached to poles with pipe clamps.
I’m not so sure about that because even if they are privately owned, that doesn’t mean they have the inherent right to be mounted on a city pole. The property isnt harmed by removing them from the pole and storing them in a deep underground bunker infested with Hanta Virus rats, black widows, and alligators.
If I remember correctly the agreement is some kind of lease, so the city/county doesn’t really own them after they are installed.
This is an better idea. I was going to shoot them with a paintball gun.
iirc, paintball marker is slightly translucent, right? So maybe like…a sticker?
Some of the cameras by me are a little high up, which is why initially I thought paintball.
I bet I could fly a drone with a trash bag over it though.
One of those spray-can extension poles would probably work pretty well.
Must have been a scary ghost that disabled those spy cameras.
My neighbor used to put marbles in his paintball gun
This is why you don’t sign contracts without an obvious out.
I’d like to think that the bag is step 1. Step 2 is to balance an old car tire on top, and set it on fire.
I love the theatrics of it, but surely something less polluting can achieve the same results
- City installs trash bags because they’re contractually obligated to keep the devices installed and powered on
- Someone hosts an impromptu Office Space fan meetup, with a fun reenactment of the printer scene
- City sees this, responds with an obvious but legally non-actionable tweet response suggesting it continue (e.g. “Fartsburg loves Mike Judge films, too! So nice to see our citizens enjoying the various forms of recreation and socialization ths city has to offer.”), along with some conspicuously-placed garbage cans near all of the cameras’ installed locations.
- ???
- (No) Profit. (for Flock)
Guillotines?
Trash bags just do that sometimes…
Getting the plastic bag scene from American Beauty vibes.
I’m surprised Dayton is doing even that. It’s a low bar, sure, but it’s also Dayton.
Article reminded me that some people say “by accident” (me) and some say “on accident” (my cousins).
Thats a journalist though. They should know better.
Cool Hand Luke has a tutorial
Excellent reference.
I wonder how safe the poles are, compared to well tested road signs that are up. Those easily break off when hit. Will you end up with a solar panel through your windshield in an accident? I feel like one good lawsuit could make Flock have to replace every one of them if a lawyer can convince 12 people that they are a physical danger.
I’ve seen multiple videos showing they aren’t installed properly and won’t break away.
hee hee!
Just read the headline. Good
Dayton represent.
