submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 

EDIT: since apparently a bunch of people woke up with the wrong foot this morning or forgot to check the group they’re in:

This is a joke. Do not steal or vandalize speed enforcement cameras (or anything else for that matter). That’s against the law and you will likely get arrested.

If you’re addicted to crack or any other drugs, please seek professional help.

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[+] 179 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or maybe some people just need more coffee 🤷🏻‍♂️

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    People get too embarrassed about publicly being wrong. I went in on someone recently in a comment thread, typed up like a whole paragraph tearing down what I thought was an indefensible point.

    Homeboy replied like “hey you misread my comment”

    Rather than edit everything away to hide my shame, I just replied with “you’re right, I’m drunk on a cruise!” and it was honestly a highlight of the voyage. Maybe some randys can get the same enjoyment out of rereading the interaction, and that’s way more than anyone would get out of “edit: whoops”

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In Finland we steal dynamite from construction sites and do some sudden nightly dismantling. No crackheads needed.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    It does amaze me how many people I've met who have a vicious hatred towards speed cameras. Especially interesting e: in a country where people have so much respect for the police.

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  • [+] 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (14 children)
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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah. Even in the US many municipalities outsource almost the entire ticketing process to the company selling the cameras, and the company collects a (usually outsized) percentage of the fees. So the company has the incentive to use whatever shady tactics to increase ticketing infraction events. This could be by changing the camera angle slightly to falsely get plates from yellow throughers or sometimes they change light timing itself to increase ticketing events..

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was talking about Finns in Finland complaining about speed cameras.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I would just assumed because they are using the same Swedish company (Sensys Gatso) that does profit sharing agreements with municipalities in the US, that the agreement is the same.

    I can't seem to find the finnish contract award details, so I can't confirm that they are. I am thinking now, that their might be a chance that they aren't, given how extreme finnish traffic violation costs can be (% of salary).

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's the copper to crack exchange rate currently?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    5.5lbs of copper is apparently about 20$ worth

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Don't know how there would be that much copper in there.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That doesn't sound quite right, but I'm sure there's some platinum in there to make up for anything short of 5 lbs.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (56 children)

    Gotta enforce speed limits.

    And these things don't shoot you if you look at them wrong – or are black.

    Edit: "No, you can't just stick a camera worth a couple of thousand [local currency] next to the road, that takes photographic evidence of infractions. You gotta rip out the entire surface, redesign the sides and introduce a few sharp curves by demolishing a few blocks of buildings here and there. In the mean time speed is only enforced by violent cops who feel like you were speeding.

    It's the only logical way."

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And they fucking work!

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/annoying-thing-speed-cameras-ottawa-they-work-1.6786951

    https://driving.ca/column/lorraine/speed-cameras-work

    I can't believe that people don't want to see them installed in every school zones at least, if there's one place where you don't want people speeding it's there!

    "It's a road design issue!" Yeah? What's cheaper and can be done quicker, changing the road design or installing speed cameras?

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And what would it be doing in there?

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Some of them used to contain bog standard DSLRs, so they were worth stealing.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Guys, guys. Hear me out. What if (tokes) yeah...what if like if we like yeah. Oh? Sorry. What if we train pigeons to shit on traffic camera lens. It could be done. The military had trained pigeons to guide bombs against warships. Let's train and breed pigeons to do this and release them in the wild.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Semi-related: Only small amounts of copper are typically stored in the human body, and the average adult has a total body content of 50–120 mg copper. Most copper is excreted in bile, and a small amount is excreted in urine.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Roughly 2.5 kg.

    8.17$ per kg equals 20.43$.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    let the intrusive thoughts win

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