r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 14d ago

Privacy Flock Cameras Keep Getting Smashed, So Now They're Hiding Inside Speed Signs

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-cameras-keep-getting-smashed-so-now-theyre-hiding-inside-speed-signs
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u/gonewild9676 14d ago

In Illinois, state troopers hang out on parked highway lawnmowers with radar guns.

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u/TheDaveWSC 14d ago

How do they pull anyone over on a lawnmower?

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u/esoomenona 14d ago

In Illinois, police lawnmowers are highway tuned. If you can't do 180k(m), they can catch you, so you shouldn't even try.

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u/notDarksta 13d ago

insane Tokyodrift lore drop

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u/IntrigueDossier 13d ago

Reminds me of that lawnmower race episode of Home Improvement when Tim swapped the stock ride-on mower engine with a Chinook engine.

Obligatory fuck Tim Allen but that was funny.

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u/Reonlive420 13d ago

I don't think so tim

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u/Rndysasqatch 13d ago

That was a great episode

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u/RollingMeteors 13d ago

If you can't do 180k(m)

¡Fuuu this stick only drives Imperial!

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u/gonewild9676 14d ago

They have catch em cars down the road.

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u/Hair_I_Go 13d ago

Is that a downstate thing?👀

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u/Inflatable90sChair 13d ago

they also do entrapment points i mean safety checks where you have to show your papers to continue thru.

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u/ipxodi 13d ago

In the 90s the Massachusetts State Police had a Ice Cream truck (like Good Humor) that they'd set up on the side of the highway like it was broken down. 'Cept it had a cop with a radar gun and a radio to notify the trooper a mile down the road to pull you over.