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Arizona City Using Fake Cacti to Hide License Plate Cameras

posted by takyon on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the MichaelDavidCrawfordNews dept.

fliptop writes:

Claiming it's because there's no poles to mount them on, the City of Paradise Valley, Arizona began installing license plate readers inside towering, fake cacti:

LPRs are normally mounted on light poles and traffic lights to scan for stolen cars or vehicles involved in an Amber Alert, but cities and counties have been stashing them in dozens of different covert locations, from car's fog lamps to retrofitted ladders. And in Arizona, it's not uncommon to see antennas camouflaged as a cactus, so the decision – at least from an aesthetic point-of-view – makes sense.

[...] [Town manager Kevin] Burke said the cameras are not being put in fake cactus to be secretive, but because there are no light poles in the area to put them on. He says they're trying to make the cameras aesthetically pleasing. It's all part of a $2 million police technology upgrade the council passed last year.

Is it safe to say the cameras are operated by a bunch of pricks?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:36AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:36AM (#183664) Homepage Journal

    ... nor a car.

    At least bicycles aren't required to have license plates.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by redneckmother on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:44AM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:44AM (#183668)

    At least bicycles aren't required to have license plates.

    "Yet."

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:30PM (#183788)

    > This is why I don't drive a motorcycle ... nor a car.

    Oh really?

    The man who uses his fullname on every post and for months insisted on also including his social security number chooses not to own a car or motorbike because he does not want to be tracked.

    You are so full of shit.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:44PM (#183789)

    The largest city in Orange County, CA requires bicycles to be registered.
    The hours you can do that are NORMAL PEOPLE'S WORKING HOURS. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [newsantaana.com]

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