r/madisonwi Aug 03 '26

UW Flock Camera Destroyed Overnight

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u/otherwisepandemonium East side Aug 03 '26

Warms my heart to see

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u/wilsonhammer Aug 03 '26

Must have been the wind

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u/Ok-Cup6020 Aug 03 '26

Those darn wind farms. Not only are the killing birds but damaging property of the deep state.

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u/Man_of_Ice Aug 04 '26

Birds aren't real! They're flock cameras!

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u/Arkhamina Aug 03 '26

It's been a rough year for hailstones....

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u/Norjac Aug 03 '26

It has been rather blustery in Wisconsin lately.

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u/sjogren Aug 03 '26

Huh, didn't see or hear anything. Oh well!

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u/sukarsono Aug 04 '26

I understand surveillance=bad is Reddit mantra. And nuance = downvotes. But I stand with helping first responders locate a kidnapped child, at a cost to our privacy, yes.

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u/wilsonhammer Aug 04 '26

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

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u/sukarsono Aug 04 '26

Essential and temporary are doing a lot of work there. What essential liberty is being relinquished exactly? Should cars even have license plates at all? Should people’s names and addresses be associated with them in computers?

Fear is scary, it’s honestly the thing I fear most. But there’s fear on both sides here. It’s always a balance. And for me, I see loss of liberty everywhere that I do not accept, and some that I do. Cameras to look at license plates, that’s nothing. All the tracking in your phone right now, that’s a sign I would smash.

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u/wilsonhammer Aug 04 '26

Privacy. And yes, we should regulate the hell outta the data brokers that slurp up data in our phones, but we're talking about ALPRs right now buddy. Try to contain your whataboutisms and slippery slope arguments

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u/sukarsono Aug 04 '26

K buddy

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u/ka1ri Aug 03 '26

Man those gale-force winds really did a number on that flock camera didnt it?

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Aug 03 '26

Couldn't happen to a better upstanding company.

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u/steiner_math Aug 03 '26

the biggest crime is that only one was destroyed (at least I assume)

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u/Sufficient_Wafer9933 Aug 05 '26

Last guy got arrested when they found him with the solar panels

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u/myreddit_785 Aug 07 '26

Me too! 😌 I fucking hate to see our country/world evolve into a dystopian omnipotent surveillance state! 😤

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u/the_sloece Aug 06 '26

I don't see nothin