They just moved them down the road. you pass one and they time you reaching the 2nd down the road. They don’t see you pass the other camera they know your at the range.
Thats why flock isn’t pushing it. Now people have to look on the surface streets and I bet I’m correct.
They took the flocks down a while ago…
I just saw a local news piece about it.
Couple years ago they put them in (pointed at their property) because gun stores kept getting robbed there.
After seeing the video complaining about them, they contacted Flock to take them down.
Flock said there’s a contract so they’re staying so the gun store took them down and put them in the back room. Because they’re solar powered and lights charge solar too, they’re apparently still powering on back there in a storage room.
Flock will refuse to turn their cameras off no matter what, which means they’re making money off them somehow. Really, at this point it’s very likely there’s just no way to ever turn them off. An “off” switch might just not exist
And for the gun store, they just have normal cameras up.
Edit:
Don’t think this is the one I watched, didn’t rewatch it either.
But the gun range spent 6 months trying to get Flock to take them down, before finally doing it themselves.
Oh, there’s an off switch.
There’s lots of ways to stop them working…
My point was if there’s not a simple off switch, the only way to turn them off and be sure they stay off, is to render them inoperable.
Since they’re solar powered, all chopping one down requires is a new pole.
And the camera is likely to keep recording the entire time.
So if someone was to chop one down, they need to be aware the entire thing is recorded, they’re still being recorded, and since the battery is likely located within the housing separating the solar from the camera still won’t stop it.
It would just stop the battery from recharging once it dies, which would at least take till the next day since they run thru the night.
It’s a start to cut them down, but it’s not enough, it’ll go back up eventually.
Unless it’s rendered fully inoperable
One person bags it and others nearby before walking away, another person just so happens to be passing by with a fully-charged Sawzall and takes down the poles. Must’ve been their lucky day, definitely not a criminal (but doing a good thing) conspiracy.
Ah, the gun range itself was participating in the surveillance program (per that article).
Eagle Sports Range confirmed in a statement posted on Facebook that it took down every camera
That was fast. I didn’t think Flock ever respected withdrawal of consent.
That was fast.
It wasn’t fast, that’s the problem…
But, the range said it tried to remove them earlier this year in February, and was told by Flock it had a contractual obligation to keep them in place.
Six months later, Eagle Sports took matters into its own hands.
“We will deal with Flock and the contract on our own time,” the statement said. “For now, the cameras are gone.”
They had been trying (and failing) to get flock to remove them for six months, when the video made a big deal, they decided it was better to take them down, and throw them in a storage room since Flock wouldn’t take them back.
This isn’t a small business issue, Flock is doing it to entire cities.
I think I was Cleveland that had city workers bag all the flock cameras, because they couldn’t get Flock to take them down, and there’s no off switch.
It’s shitty it happened to a small business, but it’s obviously a bigger deal when Flock pulls the same thing on a major metro area.
And this shows that Flock won’t remove them no matter what, people have to.
Ideally city workers, but if not Flock employees won’t do it. That doesn’t leave many demographics to take them down.
Perhaps I’ve misunderstood, but if people are reluctant to destroy them due to potential civil action, they could safely store them in a molded polystyrene cooler (the kind sold by gas stations and convenience stores) with the lid seam taped over, placed in a well-ventilated area away from flammable objects in case flock forgot thermal failsafes.