Flock said they were only using the cameras for license plates. Cat is out of the bag now.

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bizarroland@lemmy.world · 110 pts · 11d (8 replies)

I don't know, that kinda looks like bird poop to me. Are you sure a bird didn't poop on them?

atrielienz@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 11d (1 reply)

Those birds were with me at the vet the whole time.

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d

Yeah and I was there. We were getting them deloused.

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 11d

I think the cameras just ate something that didn't agree with them.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 11d

Find the person training birds to poop in flock cameras.

StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 11d

Actually I am sure. It is definitely bird poop. No case here we can move on

Siethron@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d

Nah those a clearly wasp nests. Bet it's an endangered species too. Better leave them up there.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d (1 reply)

Birds aren't real, they are government drones too. Ever seen a baby pigeon? Cities have millions, they are all the same size.

Never any babies.

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d

They are all the same size.

Wrong!

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 11d (1 reply)

How would a Flock camera ID them, its only supposed to be able to read a license plate, right?!

athatet@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 11d

Literally the title of the post.

SW42@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 11d (1 reply)

The whole town was my place for poker night at the time that happened. Must have been someone else.

Neomega@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 11d

Yeah I was at his place for it and saw the entire town as well. Also we had a no pictures or GPS devices rule in place.

determinist@kbin.earth · 52 pts · 11d (2 replies)

They're assuming someone sprayed them. Without seeing anyone doing it. Maybe this foam just happened.

Maybe it was aliens. Or bigfoot.

Who knows...

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 11d (1 reply)

It's expanding foam. It only knows growth. It will seek to spread its borders in pursuit of some idealized pseudo-history idealized from stories the foam heard growing up. And Flock has no flags so it's free real estate.

Mirshe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d

Ah damn, I knew I had missed the market for expansionist foam.

sudoer777@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 10d (1 reply)

I was in that same place and saw Netanyahu spraying yellow stuff out of a can, pretty sure it was him

ms_lane@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 10d

Jared Kushner was with him joking around. I saw it.

Krudler@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 11d

I took apart a Flock camera and I found many ounces of pure gold & other valuable rare-Earth metals

They are literally filled with gold. Every single one is good for at least $30,000 of salvage metal and gold

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 11d

ignotum@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 11d (1 reply)

Gunning down unarmed civilians in the street for the crime of filming with a phone is completely fine, but non-destructive tampering with the police state surveilance systems is where they draw the line

AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 10d

To be fair, spray foam would be destructive to the lens or lexan/glass cover over the lens. Spray foam is insanely messy. You really don't want it getting anywhere it shouldn't be. In this case, I can't think of a more appropriate target for the foam.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 11d

Probably just the wind.

Abyssian@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 11d

You're right, it must be a cat doing this. I've seen many cats using spray foam to vandalize things recently, and the ones that have been kept in bags are especially bad.

LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 11d (2 replies)

Can a paintball be filled with expanding foam and still work?

Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 10d

Expanding foam like this uses 2 chemicals reacting with oxygen as a catalyst. While definitely possible to create, I would highly advise against this in a DIY application. In my very limited exposure to paintball, I have had some burst paintballs in the hopper and in the gun itself.

CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 10d

Regular paintballs work just fine. Or so I've heard.

theblurstoftimes@leminal.space · 8 pts · 10d

Looks like the work of that lovable scamp Barron Trump. What happened to boys will be boys?! Fl-Woke cameras strike again!

EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 10d

LFG! take every single conviction to trial, Jury nullification. Literally no one wants these fucking things.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 11d (1 reply)

I their system can't even catch this, it seems a bit useless.

As the city, I'd claim a refund

pigup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 10d

The city officials who would do this already got their own "refund" so......

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 11d

Why would someone do such a thing!! 😟

solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 10d

Dang the police are distributing useful information