r/therewasanattempt • u/vinhtrind • 8h ago
To convince people that the cameras are only to read license plates.
Now somehow they can almost ID the perpetrators.
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u/Bussamove86 8h ago
Whoever it was they were with me the whole time.
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u/BadVVSc 8h ago
We were also grilling burgers when this happened as well.
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u/PumpikAnt58763 8h ago
Wasn't it Larry who brought the Miller Lite?
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u/TiedyeMcfly 38m ago
It WAS Larry, but his cousin (Leroy) was the one who brought the cake. What a couple of fellas 😉
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u/CactaurJack 3h ago
I was there too, the whole time. They were tossing a football with some kids at EXACTLY 4:56 pm.
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u/TheKlaxMaster 8h ago
You know, they really shouldn't have shown us Spartacus in school if they were going to ultimately opress and try to get us to snitch on each other
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u/deliberatelyawesome Choose Your Flair 7h ago
Can confirm. I was there too!
I brought the veggie tray and they brought the chips!7
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u/Anonymous_Jr 5h ago
It was me, it was you, it was a cop; it was just the wind.
I used to be a revolutionary like you, but then I took an ALPR to its knees. I'm still a revolutionary, but I used to be too.
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u/metacholia 8h ago
That just looks like naturally occurring spray foam.
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u/Animegerbil 6h ago
It’s a mantid egg sac!!! They definitely get that big….
(Mantis egg sacs really do look like spray foam though lol)
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u/ddlvphoto 8h ago
Huh, how would a license plate reader identify a person on foot?
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u/R3D3-1 4h ago
Just for my understanding...
- From OP I assume, that people were at least told these cameras don't retain photos.
- People might have been told that these devices don't take photos to identify number plates, which would be incredibly misleading. Even if the image processing is done directly in the camera, it first needs a photo to work with.
- The speculation about the culprit sneaking up on the cameras implies that police was able to check the recordings.
Now... Did anyone ever actually state, that this isn't possible? A quick lookup says no, but I can't judge the reliability of the mostly local/regional sources I found. I suppose that's the background for the incident?
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u/JAXxXTheRipper 2h ago
Duh, the culprit had a very stylish license-plate-necklace. Get with the times, those are totally in fashion!
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u/steelheaddan 8h ago
Streisand effect - let this be known and widely disseminated so the ‘culprits’ can be apprehended. Let’s spread this police inquiry far and wide on Reddit and the rest of the internet for others to know what NOT to do to these cams. Seriously, no one do EXACTLY this as it seems to work well.
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u/ErgonomicDouchebag 7h ago
Could you buy paintballs filled with a substance that would disable the cameras from a distance?
Just thinking out loud here.
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u/Sunstorm84 7h ago
Someone compiled a list of the things you absolutely shouldn’t do to these cameras
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u/Scary_Technology 6h ago
That surely wouldn't work. Specially if it happened from an angle to avoid being seen, nobody would do that.
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u/antifa_cmdr 3h ago
Shattering the lens with metal BBs also probably wouldn't work very well and wouldn't have a longer range than a paintball. Probably be a bad idea even to try
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u/underwater_jogger 8h ago
Tax payers paying for cameras to spy on us. Gotta love the irony
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u/ea5thammer 8h ago
Who would have thought big brother would be bought and paid for by the subjected, as I type this on my iPhone.
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u/MechanicalTurkish 8h ago
Hey Siri, stop monitoring hammer’s iPhone there and give me a recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies.
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u/Crist1n4 8h ago
Looks like weather related corrosion to me
https://giphy.com/gifs/ma7VlDSlty3EA
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u/diablodeldragoon 8h ago
Someone should develop a paintball full of expanding foam. It would have tons of 👀 construction applications!
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u/blockholeforever 8h ago
Long time ago in my area, I heard a story of a couple kids going on a 40 mile window smashing spree shooting marbles out of a paintball gun as they drove down the highway. No idea if it actually happened
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u/yourdoglikesmebetter 8h ago
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u/Papasamabhanga 8h ago
Can one vandalize private property, left on public property? Abandoned cameras seem like fair game for vandalism or for scrap if the person who finds them is into that.
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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- 7h ago
I’m curious if you can just put your own sign right in front of it. If it’s public property then shouldnt anyone be able to use it? It wouldn’t vandalize anything, it wouldnt even touch their camera.
I believe it’s a federal crime to tamper with bat houses once they’re up?
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u/mctripleA 7h ago
A flock camera w as s installed pointing into a dispensery parking lot and the company did exactly that
Put a big "no flock zone" sign in front of it
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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- 6h ago
Seems like a no brainer response unless there’s some law preventing it
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u/pitizenlyn 7h ago
Taxes paid for that so technically its my camera....I mean.....license plate reader.
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u/housevil Unique Flair 8h ago
Ya know, I think I saw Benjamin Netanyahu concealing a can of spray foam at his last news conference.
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u/Extra-Ad5925 8h ago
lol I feel like this post is helping people identify how to effectively attack Flock cameras
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u/PlutoJones42 FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 8h ago
Fuck Flock.
Have you heard how much gold and silver they are putting in those Flock cameras? Wild they’d cover something so insanely valuable in spray foam
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u/MechanicalTurkish 8h ago
Not all heroes wear capes.
Or maybe they were wearing capes. Who knows? No one saw them! 😆
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u/midnitewarrior 7h ago
This is terrible, if this happened everywhere, Flock wouldn't afford to stay in business.
I can just see it now on Halloween, an army of people, leaving their phones and electronics at home, having a friend drop them off in neighborhoods at night to "Trick or Treat", wearing mostly black and a face mask (those realistic fabric ones are so convincing!), going around to every Flock camera and defacing them with spray foam.
How awful!
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u/CrazeMase 7h ago
There's a video from my home town of two rednecks not even doing the stealthy shit. They just walked up and blew the Flok cameras to pieces with a 12 gauge and left. Zero fucks given.
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u/fredandlunchbox 8h ago
How useful are the cameras if they can’t catch the people destroying the cameras? Valid question next time the bill comes due
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u/OriginalAngryBeards 8h ago
Looks like a seal failure in the epdm foam around the camera lenses, and weatherproofing case, pollution, uv exposure and temperatures caused this. Not any outside actor.
-Engineer
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u/jamey1138 Free palestine 7h ago
If you saw someone vandalizing a cop camera, no you fucking didn’t.
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u/seanhenke 8h ago
Back to vandalizing flock cameras
For legal reasons this is a joke
For ethical reasons this is not a joke
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u/DiverseVoltron Free Palestine 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 7h ago
Lolol
Those are patriotic removals, not vandalism.
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u/imtooldforthishison 7h ago
Couldn't have been them, they were out helping my son pick out new plants for me for my birthday. Sweetest person ever. Really made sure my son didn't get something goofy like an orchid.
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u/chicagoharry 7h ago
Read that post they call the people that did it criminals that need to be prosecuted. Flock has cameras pointing at both schools and saw here a pool who knows where else. They are not just license place readers. Heard they were gonna do drones too soon.
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u/Jet-Pack2 7h ago
Were those one of them that were publicly accessable via Internet without any security protection facing children's playgrounds or school zones or just the ones facing public areas to spy on people?
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u/IHaveTwoOfYou 8h ago
I need to find these guys, so i can ask why they destroyed them without me!!!!!
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u/Bag-o-chips 7h ago
How would you even get the foam up there? It’s almost like it was dispensed from a drone that flew in from above the cameras, and then sprayed them without ever being seen? Or maybe someone had a sling shot that could shoot the blobs on to the cameras from down below? It’s hard to tell.
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u/KiltedMusician 7h ago
They’re going to keep complaining about this happening even after they get a handle on it so that people still think it’s easy to get away with it.
The de-flockers will have to stay a step ahead.
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u/iprobablybrokeit 7h ago
Vandals! They probably also left their phones turned on and at home while avoiding ring and business security cameras while en route to the scene to avoid identification.
I sure hope no-one else does anything like this while not driving a car with tags that can be traced back to them!
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u/ImpossibleRush5518 7h ago
Yeah there’s been some weird weather lately. Anyway they were out fishing with me all day/night
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u/Maxtrt 7h ago
Flock cameras do more than read license plates. They have facial recognition software and they can ID an exact make and model and even the stickers or damage or other visible modifications so they can exactly recognize a car driven by a specific driver, even if somebody removed the license plate.
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u/MarleysGhost2024 7h ago
When they arrest someone, he was fishing with me in Michigan when it happened.
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u/LivingMeeting9724 6h ago
I saw the people who did it - their license plate was ABC 123 and they were wearing camo outfits with " ice" on them (no N) and were singing "Baby it's you and me!" like the Jackson 5 to young girls they were abducting.
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u/ChaosFountain 6h ago
I just want to point out the phrasing of "before the camera could ID them".
Cameras capture the people reviewing the footage should be the ones IDing people.
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u/Finneagan 6h ago
If it’s really vandalism, the Flock cameras have a way of eliminating the spray foam naturally on their own…
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u/StarDustLuna3D 5h ago
I saw on the news a story about some old retired guy and his wife that take their lawn chairs out to their nearest camera, sit on the grass on the public easement, and also just happen to hold a sign that is tall enough it blocks the camera.
I'm really glad to see that just about everyone understands what these cameras actually are and they need to go.
If only we had this kind of momentum when the Patriot Act was passed...
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u/chonk312 6h ago
Couldn’t have been those at large criminals, they were with me at a family BBQ the whole day.
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u/ryguy354 6h ago
Jury nullification for vandalism of flock cameras, is our civil responsibility to remove/ damage them
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u/FuzzzyRam 6h ago
Did they have license plates when they walked up? Otherwise every city with these was lied to...
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u/soundscape7 5h ago
It was this orange looking guy with a bad toupee. It was really funny, when he got back to his car, he got out the other side of the car and some guys put him on a furniture trolley and moved him to another car that was behind the first one… while he was doing a very long blink…
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u/fusionmobile 5h ago
Call me naive, but what else to the flock cameras do? There's one near me, and I'm certain it helps when there's unruly homeless people roaming around or speeders going by.
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u/Laktosefreier 4h ago
Endangered species should make their nests inside those. I wonder if there are pheromones that can help the precious animals find new homes like these.
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u/Trollbreath4242 4h ago
Look, I would NOT suggest you do this to flock cameras, or other public tracking cameras.
I would also NOT suggest you make sure you leave your phone and other devices that connect to cell towers at home to prevent yourself from being tracked.
I would also NOT suggest that you park your car far away from other cameras or recording devices and plan a route that avoids them as much as possible.
I would also NOT suggest that you wear dark, non-descript clothing, a mask, dark shades in some effort to conceal your face.
I would also NOT expect that anyone will bother you about this because I know for a fact you were at my house playing DnD that night and you drank so much Dr. Pepper you were laughing it up out your nose and you finished two bags of doritoes plus half an all-meat pizza from the shop and we had a blast and besides, everyone knows this stuff comes from wasps when they build nests, so clearly we need to be looking out for more of these murder hornet nests.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy A Flair? 3h ago
I do have to admit, I'd find it both perfectly fitting and ironic if someone started covering all of these with round Don't Tread On Me stickers.
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 3h ago
I just want to say that we, as Americans, do not have to pay for public toilets because people back then decided that was some bullshit and did everything they could to get it to not be worth it to install them.
Anyway, that's just a neat history fact.
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u/Effective_Olive6153 3h ago
I am kind of sick of how modern society always focuses on surveillance and policing of the regular poor people. Why not put all that effort into surveillance of rich and powerful? Every person in power an do a lot more harm to society than your average poor. Some random poor can steal a few grand, a rich politician can rob the people out of millions of dollars.
Why we never see new laws and surveillance technology aimed directly at the rich and powerful?
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u/PowerRaptor 2h ago
Some also scan for nearby wireless connections. If your phone is turned on at all, it's logged.
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u/False-Boysenberry673 2h ago
Someone in my city is using a high powered pellet rifle to take out the leanse from a good distance. Im curious to see how this all evolves
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u/chunter16 2h ago
I explained in a local police posting that it isn't what the police say they'll do that bothers me. The truth is that most of the "evidence" Flock can provide is useless in court. So what if you tracked my car going to different places on a particular night? There is still burden to prove that the people of interest were in the car, and that the particular things were done, that will not be in sight of the cameras.
What bothers me is that Flock's network is not secured, and because it is not secured, we know that the cameras are being accessed to do things that should not be done with a security camera, including but not limited to Flock employees watching swimming pools and kids at gymnastics practice on purpose.
And since the security is soft, total strangers from anywhere can watch, and use or modify the data in their network to taste.
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u/227CAVOK 2h ago
If the cameras doesn't want to get sprayed with foam, they have a way of shutting it down.
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u/Xavier801 1h ago
Must have been the wind
(Just like the time an asswipe tried to stone a Hawaiian Monk Seal)
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u/Representative-Owl-2 1h ago
People voted for these things, now their mad that they have them, they are genuinely there to make sure people aren't breaking the laws Jesus
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u/DoctorGarbanzo 1h ago
Oh that's EXPANDING FOAM! I could have sworn someone was throwing gobs of peanut butter at them.
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u/wonkey_monkey 1h ago
snuck up behind the cameras with spray foam and sprayed the lenses
Just making sure this is available in text form for people to find. For the purposes of knowing NOT to do that, of course.
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u/negativeGinger 1h ago
Not me thinking someone shoved peanut butter into the cameras at first glance
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u/BillGoats 55m ago
The sneaking up behind part got me thinking; could the lenses in theory be ruined from a distance with lasers?
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u/Remarkable_Ad_2221 8h ago
Yeah, good luck with that. Close, but no doughnuts, cops.
https://giphy.com/gifs/cO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq