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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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[โ€“] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The precious metals content realistically isn't interesting at all unfortunately. You could make a bit reselling the internal components (like probably not even 3 digits), but the value on the actual copper/etc is negligible. The solar panel is probably the most interesting piece, but the components are cheap as fuck.

[โ€“] halferect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Its to encourage meth heads who only need 20 bucks and are desperate enough to go to jail for a lil bit of copper