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floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.
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    Nobody stole them… It was just god’s plan for them to go away. Are you questioning god, Sir?

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      Amen

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        Ramen

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    was a big brown beaver

    • RonniePickering@lemmy.world
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      Winona?

      • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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        https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg

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      Jerry was driving the getaway car.

  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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    The Winona police can suck my balls.

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    Have more cameras watching the other cameras

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      This is the way

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    Must have been the wind

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    If the police can’t even protect the tools they are using, what do they get paid for?

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    Where is this ripoff, $3000, camera and listening device made?

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    Whoever they are, they were with me the entire night.

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      I know it’s a joke, but I’m hijacking youry comment because it’s a great example sentence on why you should never, ever talk to the police outside of an active emergency when you need their help.

      You didn’t do anything, but your words self-incriminated you as someone who took part in the destruction of the cameras.

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        Hmm, never thought of it that way. Yes, if someone were incredibly stupid or malicious, that would certainly come off that way. So I can see why a cop might see it like that.

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          Exactly. And when they testify at trial that you admitted to being with the offender at the time of the crime, it’s not just the cop’s opinion you have to worry anout. Your defense of “I was lying to get the real culprit off the hook” also wouldn’t help you much at that point. Best case you’re looking at an obstruction conviction.

          Even more interestingly - this scenario doesn’t require the officer to be corrupt.

          Never talk to cops.

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    They could track them down with Flock, if only…

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      Maybe that what happened, whoever cut the first one saw a second one, went oh fuck, then saw a third…

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    OMG I just saw some white dude running down the road in a maga hat and striped boxers with like 2 dozen flock cameras on cut-off poles slung over his shoulder… straight up interstate toward Vancouver. If you hurry, I’m sure you can catch him!

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      FWIW almost no one likes these cameras. It very well could have been a MAGA. I’d imagine certain flavors of MAGAt could very easily be pushed against these installations. Don’t hate, manipulate!

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    We haven’t seen Mitch McConnell in months.

    I’m just saying…

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      His alibi is full of holes

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    Obviously it was local drug addicts. They were just desperate for a fix and learned about the high value of all the parts in those cameras. Perhaps I was talking too loudly the other day about the resale value of all the expensive electronics in those Flock cameras.

    Golly gee, I sure hope more junkies don’t find out how much money they could make. It would be a tragedy if junkies all over started stealing those Flock cameras.

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      Junkies won’t fight your revolution for you

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        Every piece a part to play. You’d not ignore your pawns in chess.

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          This is a really disgusting comment. Forgive me if I’m misinterepting, but the idea that people who bear the terrible brunt of the violence of state and capital should sacrifice themselves for you, who are privileged enough to be on this forum represents so much that is wrong about our society. If anything the pawns are the people who’s only move is to post online.

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            Uhh… i think it was a joke

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          No pawns, no kings.

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        With him, maybe, though.

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    I have never and I will never see someone cutting down a Flock camera.

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      If you see someone stealing baby food dismantling the tools of oppression, no you didn’t.

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      I mean it’s the cameras’ job to keep track of criminals, right? So it’s not my job anymore to give a shit about where they went or what they looked like, surely.

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        Growing up watching Batman and Spiderman be told to leave it to the professionals, I think it might be my job to not interfere by knowing anything.

        My memory has been shot for ten years anyways.

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          I mean, who am I gonna trust? Some person on the Internet saying that I didn’t see anything, or my lying eyes?

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      It’s never our job to assist the police. If they talk to you the only response is “am I being detained”

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    I think flock is stealing their own cameras so they can reset them and charge to replace them. There is a clear incentive.

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      This is a conspiracy I can get behind.

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    But I thought Flock prevented theft???

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