If the surveillance cameras can’t even catch the persons who removed all of their cameras, then they have proven to be worthless at catching real criminals, with their only proven worth is stalking police officers ex wives.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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That's just not true. Sometimes they haven't even met the women they're stalking.
People removing surveillance cameras taxpayers didn't approve aren't "criminals". The proper term is heroes.
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This is a known issue with flock systems, sometimes they just do that.
Yeah it was really weird. I saw one just destroy itself.
The weird thing is, if I ever see someone tearing down Flock cameras, actually no I didn't.
Agreed, a well known software bug is taking flock cameras down across the country. Hopefully they can fix it before it gets too out of hand.
Serious issue.
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This is a city of ~25K people, so quite small. Several articles have pointed out that the city, not Flock, bears the costs of the vandalism, so in this instance the city counsel that enabled the city to enter into the contract with Flock to the detriment of its citizens have now burdened the city with a substantial budget item. If the cameras are replaced, you can bet that they will likely be torn down again. At some point there will be a reckoning with voters, and hopefully the idiots that enabled the surveillance state will be voted out.
They don't even have to be voted out if the voters persuade them to resign.
Even if it's the city that beats the cost, at some point they will decide it's no longer worth the cost to replace them.
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One witness said "I'm Glad members of the community do civic duties, but we don't need to active about finding their identity, I'm sure they did it as a gift for society"
Amazing. How true is this? Anyone got a source?
Edit: ah, they only had 8 cameras. Still, that's amazing.
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It's called "Flock." Obviously, they all flew away! But you can't blame the PD for not knowing that; pigs don't know much about flying.
Whomever the suspect was they were fucking my mother that night and there is no way they could have done it because it was going on all night long.
Flock off
How did they destroy the cameras without being seen by all the damn cameras?
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Let me know if you find who did it, so I can go down on them until my jaw rots off.
Holy shit I just had the epiphany of a lifetime. I have that fucking cutter.
E. And I love Paul Newman
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All of Winona, Minnesota was with me, in Switzerland, on a river on an inflatable raft, enjoying the heat wave. Couldn't have been them.
"I was right there with a bodycam when they all tore themselves down but it was turned off for, uh, routine maintenance."
The cameras fell down on their own
Hey man, it was higher power as far as I'm concerned.
I ain’t did it, I ain’t know who did it, and I ain’t never gonna convict anybody charged for doing this or any similar so-called crime if I’m on the jury
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They were on the other side of the country with me
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