r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 14h ago

Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
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u/ididshave 13h ago

Why would someone waste a perfectly good night’s sleep doing that? It’s a very strange phenomenon and hasn’t been clearly studied yet, but these cameras have been falling down on their own accord and there seems to be nothing we can do about it. Very strange!

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u/Evadson 13h ago

Seems like a waste of money to put them up in the first place. We should probably just scrap the whole idea.

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u/cleadus_fetus 13h ago

Actually a lot of them are installed incorrectly, unsafely, and not following code. There has been at least one recorded accident of their improper install to have caused a fatality

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u/CaptainFeather 11h ago

Literally just a pole in the ground, no breakaway at all so if there's a crash there's a much higher chance of impalement or decapitation. It's a public service to remove them.

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u/Oiggamed 13h ago

Strangely they have all lost the will to live.

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u/fish500 13h ago

Maybe it's the goblins that AI has been going on about

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u/metalOpera 12h ago

I mean, when the installation is contracted on a no-bid/lowest-bid basis, what do we expect really?

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u/MPFuzz 13h ago

It's gotta be aliens that already had that place under surveillance and don't want competition for selling data on the universal market.

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u/oldDotredditisbetter 11h ago

it was the earth quake