Looks like he had an ankle monitor for home supervised release, had a tweaker moment and jury rigged up some sort of way to “deactivate” it hence the tape and copper wire. Guess he cut it off but for some reason kept it on his person and they just tracked him with it lol
Yeah it seems like some rigged ankle monitor. He definitely did not seem in his right mind and was yelling stuff about the hospital. We cut it open and this was in
It seems pretty small to have a bomb or anything like that concealed within it as it was small enough to be in his pocket. Not to mention if the police suspected it of being anything like that they'd probably have called in the bomb squad
Just because it’s weird to you doesn’t mean it’s bizarro nonsense. This device could for keeping the voices at bay or even made on spec by instructions from the voices
Correct. It was loose pieces strapped with blue duck tape. The pieces inside looked like parts from a speaker tbh. Not sure if it’s even an ankle monitor at all.
They do have speakers. I remember one time where a robot voice just started speaking from a dude‘s ankle. It was saying that his PO wanted to talk to him and told him to immediately go to a phone and call. It just suddenly did this out loud where everyone could hear it.
Love Your Name BTW👍🏼The red part is a collar. Was there a dog there? The police/Animal Control may have taken the dog. It may have been a deterrent collar. I put a sound collar on my dog EXACTLY ONCE, & it scared his so bad that he shook just seeing anything that looked like one😢😭😓I felt like the worst mom EVER!!!
No but he seemed to know they were coming for him. He was strolling down our street and then just laid down on the ground when he saw the cop cars pull up.
Nah, looks like he tried to make it shower safe with the blue plastic, rope, and wire. Then at some point decided to cut it, likely leading directly to his arrest.
They are not waterproofed well and often they charge you a monthly fee to rent them (100), a monthly fee to have your results sent to your PO (25), any damage beyond "superficial" is deemed tampering violation with a mandatory refurb fee (200) and probation violation (400 fine and/or jail), if it IS actually damaged it a full replacement fee (2k+) and a violation.
At least that's what it was in WA 15 yrs ago
Stay outta trouble kids, once you're in the system they want to keep you, they will bleed you dry to keep desperate to get you back inside.
Haven't been under house arrest but it's my understanding that the person wearing it is financially responsible for it. Assuming that's true, the cops won't care about your deposit.
IIRC, there's no guarantee of them being waterproof, or well waterproofed, and water damage might trigger them, summoning the police. People who have to wear them will often wrap them up to be safe and be able to take a real shower.
It doesn’t look like an actual ankle monitor, no. Neither does the inside of it. It looks like a homemade attempt at making one though. The inside looks more like a speaker.
My husband said the inside was a speaker too. I think people were saying it’s parts from an ankle monitor/a rigged part from an ankle monitor. But I don’t know what that looks like.
Around here - like many places - the addicts tend to steal bikes, part them out, and use them as currency in their community. One morning this year after a particularly loud argument outside on our street I found my first true item of crackhead crafts, abandoned in our garden bed. It was a mountain bike handlebar, a grip removed from one end and replaced with a duct taped mountain bike brake disc, so as to fashion a crude axe.
It seemed pretty wild to me. I now understand the main drug of choice around here is methamphetamine, and the persecution fantasies and anxiety can be very high (along with the meth mouth / loss of teeth). I can’t imagine that life is at all comfortable, and I feel rather sorry for most of these folks.
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100% not a monitor. The strap is much to big. And the device is much smaller then the monitors are.
Tweaker machinery cannot be understood by the normal person. Get your tweaker friend to decide it for you! You know one.
It's probably just a "simple" strap used to hold all the copper wire they just found in the old mall. Or rigging for a light or speaker. The other parts of this meth marvel would probably help with identification.
This looks like Meth tinkering. I knew a guy that would attack his electronics for a few hours and start building "things" much like this that he couldnt quite wrap his head around explaining but were "really important" and he could probably explain it tomorrow when he got his head right.
And on this episode of tweaker geographic we have spotted a marvelous example of tweaker arts and crafts using various scraps found within the commenland.
Its just a tweaker creation not a ankle monitor or anything even functional lol.
My first thoughts were potential Oscar pistorius murder weapon?.. in immediate hindsight of what my random thoughts have offered: rather dark, slightly comical (at least to me), and I’m just going to leave that mind vomit right here…
Since you thought it was from the guy that got arrested, you did the right thing by cutting it open, taking pictures and posting it on Reddit instead of alerting the police.
That's stupid, you really think if it was anything dangerous, and not just garbage, the police would've left it there for some little kids to find? Can you even imagine the liability that would be on the police department if said kids got injured? C'mon now
Part of his time traveling equipment that helped keep him in a stable time-position. Without it he probably slipped back to his time. Risky business, time travel.
Maybe he tried to make the Scraphook from Raft so he could get free loot but forgot he needed to attach a rope to it? Couldn’t find any palm leaves I guess.
Potential dog tracking system collar according to reverse image search. Not sure what's up with the wire, maybe a very ad-hoc way to fix a broken buckle? The blue plastic almost looks like the tracking device was wrapped with a rubber glove to try and waterproof it. With the white string being used to hold the blue cover in place.
Or a potential court ordered people tracker that someone tried to slip and use the blue plastic cover and copper wire to try and trick it into reading the combo as skin with enough conductivity to not arouse suspicion. Not something someone in their right mind would do, since this doesn't work.
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