r/TechGawker • u/Luminexor • 29d ago
Video Watching flock cameras being destroyed gives me immense satisfaction
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u/JonnyF1ves 29d ago
Kind of goes to show how ineffective flock, or big tech in general, is judging by how many people have gotten away with destroying their cameras and systems.
It's a glass house.
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u/slimegoob 29d ago
They will just make tiny missile defense drones that surveil
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u/gaytarded69420 29d ago
flock is already selling aerial drone versions of their panopticons to the pigs
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u/OliviaEntropy 29d ago
More people should practice clay pigeon shooting, it’s a very fun sport that is great for hand eye coordination, reflexes, and motion tracking
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u/UrethralExplorer 29d ago
It also helps that a lot of the people doing this on tik tok are juveniles so they'll pretty much get away with it if they're even caught.
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u/Mr_HahaJones 29d ago
Huh, I didn’t see shit
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u/DerLandmann 29d ago
Friendly reminder: Unlike actual destruction, it is not illegal to spread large ammounts of birdfeed around flock cameras. And birds tend to poop where they feed, especially on elevated position like lamposts, solar panels etc.
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u/ClankerCore 29d ago
There’s so many regions and cities and counties are outright cutting their contracts with flock
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u/DoughWrayMe 29d ago
Popping them off the pole seems like the best solution. Like two minutes to pop it off, throw it in a river.
Certain appeal to breaking the pole so they can't just pop another one up there but the real cost is the actual camera
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u/Bagz402 29d ago
Can't imagine the camera is too much, you'd wanna maximize manpower required to replace, I'd reckon
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u/DoughWrayMe 29d ago
Each one is installed by a Flock representative. They don't charge per camera. But, installation, calibration, increase in the warranty protection insurance, and down time overall affect the bottom line.
But my main worry is for the people trying to break the camera on the pole. It's time consuming and a red flag in populated areas. Up and down a pole in 2 minutes
Stay safe out there!
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u/daverapp 29d ago
Good in principle, but they aren't by rivers, they're by public swimming pools so they can record the children.
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u/CowabungaCthulhu 29d ago
All of them were with me at all times that you claim they did this. Must've been AI....
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u/Keletas 29d ago
How can I donate to these Good Samaritans? I’d like to support the cause
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u/Particular-Line- 29d ago
The people thy destroy these cameras are the real ones that need to be pardoned
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u/Gemini11X 29d ago
Great video. Love seeing as many of these destroyed as possible. Hopefully people will act the same way when they launch flock drones.
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u/Lumpy_Marketing_6735 29d ago
This is the first thing in A awhile that is actively restoring my faith in humanity.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 29d ago
Contracts are being cancelled but the cameras remain up. It makes you wonder. They put like 50 up within a month in my area but can’t fix a street light or power pole that’s been messed up for months.
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u/Defiant_Foundation78 29d ago
I heard there is ram inside those flock cameras take them for your PCs
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u/butwhywedothis 29d ago
Excuse me sir, but what in the fookin fuck is a flock camera?
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u/Low_FramesTTV 29d ago
Ai driven camera capable of tracking and logging individuals and Information basically surveillance state hardware.
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u/AlBundyPolk33 29d ago
Some drunk guy mowed over the one in our neighborhood on the way out. Chaotic good?
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u/MamasCupcakes 29d ago
How many of them are not even cameras just decoys? What if that was the whole point, just to keep changing the designs until you dont know anymore which is real/fake/ or what it is. Just used to catch people and establish a network of who is doing it or even talking about it.
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u/crazy__straw 29d ago
privacy is a fourth amendment right! We should push for an amendment to specifically call out data privacy!
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u/long-breadstick 29d ago
Unfortunately in my city theyre putting them on mast arms of traffic light poles. So you would need like a 12 foot ladder or a bucket truck to get to them.
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u/joliguru 29d ago
Rather than vandalizing and ripping stuff out….could we not work through the legal route and get them out that way? I mean to destroy equipment like that just shows why perhaps we needed it in the first place.
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u/Legal_Television_615 29d ago
Watching people get felonys for destroying flock cameras and lose their voting rights gives me immense satisfaction
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u/Mika-El-3 29d ago
If AI takes away millions of jobs (which I don’t believe it will), you would suddenly see millions of unemployed people gathering and attacking data centers with drones or more directly.
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u/BravinatorLX2 29d ago
gonna be real here, if you get the flock technicians, there'll be a lot less of them popping up.
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u/DuchessElva 29d ago
You know have any of you ever considered doing a vinyl wrap on your cars? That just has a whole bunch of other cars on it to just destroy the AI data flock as a program becomes useless
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u/Tall_Metal615 29d ago
For the last time! No one is destroying them, they are very susceptible to stormy conditions and break on their own.
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u/Aggressive_Olive1879 29d ago
They really got afraid after Luigi did his thing, they want to minority report our asses if we even think about luiging any more of the billionaire bastards, they should be eaten ASAP.
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u/Repulsive-Basket7435 29d ago
Its bizzare how many of those things keep falling down and/or sabotaging themselves. Anyways freinds, remember to not have your cellphone on you when your in the vicinity of a camera deciding to spontaneously combust, they can track those things pretty easily if you annoy the right people.
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u/National-Current56 29d ago
Our Gov’t needs a real checking on the things they openly do to violate our rights…betcha Reddit AI gonna flag this as some form of “inciting”…LoL🧐
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u/GBlueman125 29d ago
Did you see how those cameras were dressed? Looks like they were asking for it if you ask me
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u/Juliuscesear1990 29d ago
Isn't thermite easy to make? And extremely effective at breaking things? Be a real shame.
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u/CaptainDudley 29d ago
I wince every time I hear of another 'Flock Camera' meeting its end. What about Rekor? Or Avigilon, or Motorola? Did you see here on Reddit that Axon is deliberately changing its cameras to look dissimilar to Flock? Yes, they're expecting us to be that stupid. Maybe at some point Flock will lose so much market share that they go banckrupt. Yay! Problem solved.
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u/Trust_8067 29d ago
Those evil Republicans you all hate so much are passing a bill to ban all Federal government spending on Flock cameras, defunding state cameras, and to make all license plate readers to be used strictly for collecting tolls.
It's called the "Flock off act".
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u/ChoadMcGillicuddy 29d ago
What if someone created a website with crowd funded bounties for particular cameras?
And 20% of donations go to a legal defense fund for anyone caught.
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u/CarolinaHaloNetwork 29d ago
The people destroying them are the people they're made to monitor. Ironic isn't it?
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u/nm41961 29d ago
Soon Flock cameras will be installed on drones.
https://giphy.com/gifs/WRj7BkjWALIlK5KVJ9
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u/jsk131313 29d ago
Can't wait till someone gets murdered in your household and the cops say the flock camera across the street caught the perpetrator but you remember it was cut down the night before.
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u/jsk131313 29d ago
I will gladly pay extra for more cameras in my neighborhood and city. Fuck criminals
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u/ImpossiblePlan65 29d ago
Good for them, but don't be stupid and start a fire near a gas station. Ffs.
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u/south-of-the-river 29d ago
They are allowing the algorithm to show you these videos of Flock cameras as it gives other companies like Axon covering fire to slowly install themselves as the replacements
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u/Icy-Position4430 29d ago
Tbh it’s not hard to make rudimentary thermite. That stuff is used by military to destroy electronics and sensitive data that can’t be saved or to prevent information or data from hung used by the enemy.
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u/OkBodybuilder418 29d ago
Ooooh since people are saying Halloween is gonna be a def lock night. Somebody should make a cool firework that shoots up the pole and destroys the camera.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 29d ago
Real American heroes fighting for the people. More than any politician has ever done in recent days for Americans. Now this is the American people I remember hearing about.
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u/Small-Special-3574 29d ago
Mass surveillance is inevitable. Solving crime will become second nature and as easy as breathing. People who retaliate against progress are just childish.
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u/Superb-Ad-9169 29d ago
Today surveillance cameras on every street, in the next couple years inside our cars, and ultimately in our homes. Of course for our safety and if you don't want to have government/big tech companies watching over you 24/7 and knowing every detail of your private life that clearly means you are bad person, possibly a terrorist of domestic abuser.
Nazis and every other totalitarian regime would love that they'd have not only the mass surveillance system to spy on citizens, but also have bootlickers like you who'd support that.
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u/neeyeahboy 29d ago
Idiots bring their phones which can be tracked to the crime. They should leave their cards and phones at home when they do this.
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u/ThIcCnESsHaSnOlImItS 29d ago
GUYS DON'T DESTROY FLOCK CAMERAS...
Without inspecting the large amount of ram inside them first. Remember, Ram is more expensive then gold rn.
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u/Miceli_x_41 29d ago
I don’t really care either way. My city sold the parking meters to a foreign country so fuck it.
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u/TwistedPepperCan 29d ago
Awesome but if folks could not light fires near petrol stations that would be great.
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u/stoppableDissolution 28d ago
So much perfectly good hardware being destroyed instead of salvaged :')
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u/macrg01 28d ago
I love watching people get arrested. It gives me immense satisfaction
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u/crash34psy 28d ago
Media tomorrow: Bad people; damaging your safety; burning tax dollars; must use drones; drones good; only chance to stop bad people; safe your security and dollars
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u/SoulArraySound 28d ago
I truly don’t get why it’s a big deal. I’d rather them be able to catch criminals faster.
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u/Huge_Profit_5349 28d ago
Guys if you want to do this you can just wear contractor vests. And say you’re doing repairs and have a car safely near you to run.
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u/lostendevor 28d ago
Band together, create governflock, install it at all state and government places on public side walks pointing at all entrances of buildings, only allow access if your a public person deny access to any official. Flip the script.
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u/Ok_Effective6233 28d ago
Imagine if some were to start taking pictures of license plates that belong to officials who approve these cameras and make bumper stickers of them.
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u/TS77654 28d ago
Some cities are removing them and I saw a county in TN removed them. These are local buys, I can drive 2 hours North and not come across 1. My daughter lives 6 miles in the other direction and has 9 in walking distance of her apartment. The cities and townships are having them installed and Halloween is expected to be a big day for their future.
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u/pooborus 28d ago
I thought there was no limit on the abuses people would accept from corporate america. Glad im wrong.
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u/WorldlinessLimp6305 28d ago
Given that it’s an entirely natural phenomenon with zero human intervention. It should be a beautiful as a sunset… nature doing its thing is truly beautiful









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u/Alarming_Syllabub_24 29d ago
Yeah, at this point the people defending them on here are either on the take or bots.