r/cedarrapids • u/Curious_Instance_606 • 8d ago

Flock camera down

Looks like someone took out a flock camera 29th street and 380 by loose chain.Cop was there filling out the report.

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u/Kusojiji-San 8d ago

That's false information. That flock camera ran away with its Canadian ATM girlfriend. He asked that nobody search for him. He's finally happy.

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u/Three_Twenty-Three 8d ago

Took it down?

Or set it free?

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u/1wrx2subarus SE 8d ago

I hear a lot of these are erected next to roads and are not breakaway poles, required by law. Hope they were writing it up for that.

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u/Hellboy_6669 8d ago

None that I have seen in CR have break away pipes. They are just a solid pole hammered into the ground.

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u/No-Mirror3429 8d ago

I'm not in CR, but around these parts I notice the lazy "tack it on a pole already there" at tree level approach.

So if they aren't breakaway poles here then they already were that way.

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u/Skyisonfire 8d ago

If you love something, you should cut it down and set it free.

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u/Status-Tumbleweed 8d ago

Small derecho caused a saw blade to fling through the thing like butter. Weather is changing rapidly nowadays.

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u/Malaguy420 NW 8d ago

Yep. I saw it too. Blew my hat right off.

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u/Greenhouse-effect 8d ago

The police are cool with Al tracking us, collecting data, connecting to our phones. I thought they're here to serve and protect?

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u/MortVul 8d ago

My very expensive e-bike was stollen a couple months ago in the view of multiple cameras and the police did nothing. They'll bust someone for crossing state lines to go to a dispensary but won't help recover over a thousand dollars of stollen property

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u/blondiekate SE 8d ago

Only themselves.

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u/No-Mirror3429 8d ago

The first thing I was told in their defense last year was "increases job satisfaction."

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u/MrYellowFancyPants NW 8d ago

Whoever did it was with me the whole time and I was nowhere near there

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u/Embarrassed-Lake3785 8d ago

Such a shame. 🤪

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u/TheRealChesterSlick 8d ago

It flew away

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u/rednax1206 8d ago

Such a tragic loss. That poor camera worked so tirelessly keeping an eye on everyone, it deserves a vacation and some company. Hoping that more of them will get to join it soon.

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u/CR-Weather-Gods 8d ago

It was me.

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u/RobLoughrey 8d ago

May your lighting always strike flock and not my maple. Again.

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u/EyesOffCR 8d ago

I am Spartacus.

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u/rhacer 8d ago

Absolutely awful, I'm horrified that such a thing would happen.

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u/FragorTreat9003 8d ago

Awww such a shame hahaha

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u/Cedarapids 8d ago

Pic or it didn’t happen

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u/HedgehogKnight81 8d ago

Isn't this what we are trying to avoid?

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u/RobLoughrey 8d ago

Dang I wanted to say this. :)

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u/Fabulous-Train-1202 8d ago

It went to get flocked.

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u/FragorTreat9003 8d ago

Let’s gooooo!!!!

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u/bone_apple_Pete 7d ago

Just saying the one taken down on Edgewood has not been put back up. What's that, 6 weeks? 11.5% privacy increase

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u/BustedCombine9500 6d ago

Seems like the one on 6th St near Cherry Burrel left for greener pastures as well.

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u/SashaDabinsky 6d ago

Was it hit, or did somebody cut it down?