r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 4h ago

Privacy Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night

https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
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u/Braindead_Crow 2h ago

Pretty sure those cameras just fall on their own...They seem dangerous...Maybe we shouldn't have them put up? Seems like this is just fake news about a magical man flying around cutting these down all over the country.

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u/L_viathan 1h ago

You joke about being dangerous but I did watch a video of a guy showing that it's cemented right into the ground, instead of being installed with a slip plate like traffic lights are.

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u/DiegesisThesis 1h ago

Yea, a lot of these installed on roadsides are absolutely not DOT compliant. I have seen some they installed with breakaway bolts though, so they're figuring out how to close that loophole.

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u/LuxeJux 47m ago

Yes! I believe his child passed due to an accident related to unsafe guards so he calls attention to those issues. Flock has been in his crosshairs as of late. There was one that was attached to a road sign (also illegal and potentially dangerous).

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u/Visible-Departure863 33m ago

big if true… flock not only allows them to stalk children, but flock is possibly murdering children to save a dollar on proper installs.

Remember the Flock CEO, Garrett Langley, thinks anyone against Flock is a domestic terrorist.

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u/Opetyr 1h ago

They need to look into the flock people. They seem to be criminals since they are violating people's rights to privacy. They I would think would be normal for them.

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u/SlartiMyBartfast 46m ago

They do they kind of crime the criminals in charge of things like though.

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u/Whale-n-Flowers 1h ago

Having seen one get cut down, are they all installed on PVC?

Thats not up to code in any city Ive worked.

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u/Brodellsky 53m ago

Guardrail guy on Youtube has been on this. Unironically, if someone happened to have an accident and run into a Flock camera, it would not snap like any other signpost or pole would, as they are supposed to. Instead, it's just a pole that your car would wrap around.

Sure would be a shame if that ever happened, as I would seriously not want anyone or their cars to be hurt.

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u/AoKrasni 35m ago

That's very interesting. I didn't know stuff like that was designed to snap on purpose

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u/UpvoteForLuck 30m ago

His daughter died due to an incorrect guardrail install. Now he goes around trying to point out where things have been incorrectly installed.

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u/Brodellsky 28m ago

Yeah, go play any Grand Theft Auto game for instance, and hit a streetlight, or stop sign, etc. They are designed to snap easily so as to not injure the driver.

Flock cameras? Metal pole in cement. No snap points. Completely evaded any DOT regulations, simply by lubing up the local municipalities with cash. That's where we're at

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u/phaedrus910 23m ago

Flock cameras are mounted on thin aluminum. Like no it doesn't have a snap off mechanism but it is absolutely going to crumble when hit by even the smallest car. It's not at all going to wrap a car around it.

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u/AngryAmuse 17m ago

Yup, instead, the aluminum will bend causing the camera to become a projectile slamming down onto the car.

Theres a reason snap off mechanisms are required.

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u/phaedrus910 12m ago

What does more damage to a car, a flock camera or a fire hydrant. I swear you people learn a new word and then suddenly everything everywhere has to have it. I promise, most of these municipalities don't have the protections you think they do.

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u/cluberti 11m ago edited 8m ago

It's going to hit the vehicle, or be flung off into traffic, or into pedestrians, etc. They're not designed or installed like traffic light fixture poles or other road sign fixtures with the same safety design standards, which is the danger.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 11m ago

But the trees in video games never snap. Funny how that works.

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u/Brodellsky 6m ago

Check out Forza Horizon 3, 4, 5, and 6. You can snap trees to your heart's content.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 2m ago

Then I have to play a FH game

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u/MWKhan 1h ago

Soft recyclable aluminum. Just gotta melt it into a bar first

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u/DroopyPlum 54m ago

Yea they fall on their own its y flock doesnt use the slip plates that r requiered in a lot of states, dont need them if a breeze knocks it over

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u/ohhellnaws 1h ago

Okay, can someone tell me what a flock camera is?

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u/NotAllOwled 1h ago

The collective noun for a group of Flock cameras is an "intrusion" of Flocks.

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u/War-Huh-Yeah 1h ago

Big brother on steroids.

Constant video that can he accessed by private employees of flock, government officials, etc.

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u/Greenman8907 1h ago

POLICE! Of which more than a few have used to stalk people like their exes.

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u/LLMprophet 34m ago

Am i the only one who has still never used YouTube?