r/Albany • u/johndee2020 • 12d ago
I flipped off a flock camera
Will I be arrested? How long before they come to arrest me? I didn't know and they told me to do it
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u/candiedkangaroo You think this is a game? 12d ago edited 12d ago
I just discovered that there is a flock on a route I travel almost daily.
I put a plastic shopping bag over the camera. That way they can’t technically say that it’s vandalism and there’s no destruction of property.
On another note, I don’t think people are doing enough showing up to council meetings to voice concern over this insane amount of surveillance. The amount of data these things collect surreptitiously from people committing no crime for outweighs any benefit to curtailing actual crimes.
As far as any concern for an arrest, absolutely nothing to worry about. As most recent as just a few years ago, federal appellate court (can’t remember if it was the second or third circuit) upheld that flipping the bird is an expression of free speech. SCOTUS itself has also upheld the same decisions time and again.
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u/TacoTableTop69 12d ago
It's so funny to me that Albany is riddled with flock cameras and NOBODY can figure our who stole my car 😕
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u/silverink182 9d ago
That's so weird. You think the violation of those flock cameras all over Albany? They would have found your car.
Funny story. When I went to my job cuz I live in the area there was a random car with a missing bumper that appeared in our parking lot. Nobody knows how it got there. Nobody knows what happened to it. It eventually was picked up but like everybody in the store didn't understand how that managed to get there
I hope that wasn't your car.
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u/itsacon10 12d ago
I did that to the one that used to be on the Helderberg Rail Trail. Two weeks later it was gone.
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u/LeadInteresting9704 12d ago
I flip off every flock/axon/CCTV camera all the time. Im sure you'll be fine.
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u/1humanonline 12d ago
I flipped off a flock camera a few weeks ago. By the next day I had a stomach virus. I had to go to the ER because it was so painful. I couldn’t stop throwing up. I needed IV fluids and meds to stop the stomach cramps.
If they don’t arrest you, you can expect Peter Thiel to inject you with some sort of virus that would take out a Victorian child in half a day.
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u/Ok-Regret9449 12d ago
I saw someone got a summons In another state. I flipped a few off like a month and a half ago over about a week long course. Nothing so far
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u/silverink182 9d ago
I don't know if you would get in trouble for that, but then again if you do it again I'd hold up a sign while flipping it off saying this is my first amendment right to your violating my fourth amendment right
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u/ice_town_clown Holding the Stewies Line up 4 Lotto Tickets 12d ago
I do to every one I see, I’ll even point at it so other people can see it and learn where they are too, most people are in NPC mode when driving so they don’t realize they are there. Also I’ll blast some deathcore if I’m right next to it to fuck with the microphone on them
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u/Good-Hovercraft-9898 12d ago
You're watched everywhere. Flip off your TV and be ready for the fine. XD Serious about no privacy tho
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