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Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal
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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.
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Oh come on. Really guys? We are stealing these high tech pieces of equipment and just tossing them in a body of water to fry them? Such a fucking waste. Those panels and batteries are just itching to be repurposed, or at the very least harvest the copper. No need to pollute.
The thing about them having a lot of copper is a meme/lie trying to get druggies to tear them down for a chance at a good payout at a scrapyard.
Panels and batteries though, absolutely. Pretty sure some people already are reusing some.
The boards and such can be broken down into precious metals if you’re desperate but yeah generally not worth it for the raw materials.
I would be shocked if it were worth it on anything short of an industrial scale. We're talking a very small amount of material, and a lot of fiberglass and ... I can't bring myself to say junk, but "delicate components made of basically sand".
I wonder how accessible the power source is and if anyone would even notice if a custom small additional camera was attached to these stupid things that was programmed to identify cop cars and share to a public tracking map.
And get caught with them and catch a felony, naw not going to happen.
I'm betting these things are put pretty tough to breakdown / dismantle.