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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 29 2017, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the flashback? dept.

Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local [NYC] tunnels, and soon they'll start appearing at bridges, too.

But even people on the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] board in charge of the towers can't say why they're being used or what's in them, CBS2's Dave Carlin reports.

Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls[sic] booths came down.

"We don't really know what's the purpose of this," he told Carlin.

It's a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?

[...] [MTA Chairman] Lhota: "The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items."

Z backscatter arrays?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:48AM (#574631)

    When you have "homeland security."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:41AM (#574662)

      The self-avowed commies are right there, subverting your rights, by using it to topple peace and order.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday September 29 2017, @02:55AM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:55AM (#574635) Homepage Journal

    Trust me, you can get the Trump name on these expensive towers at a great rate. Call the Trump Organization at (212) 832-2000 and tell them Donald Sr. sent you.

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @03:30AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:30AM (#574641) Homepage

      Expensive? They look like a laughable bluff -- I mean, come on, they're wrapped in fucking chicken-wire. For all we know if could be a fucking chicken-coop or aviary with some floodlights on top. Now all somebody has to do is find a small optic and record what's inside, or just have somebody in the know see in themselves and describe what they saw.

    • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday September 29 2017, @04:46AM (1 child)

      by captain normal (2205) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:46AM (#574663)

      Mini-Trump Towers? That makes about as much sense as anything else going on in this country right now. Now that I think about it, they look like things I saw in photos of Moscow a couple of years ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 29 2017, @03:03AM (11 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:03AM (#574637)

    Anybody recognize the emitter/receiver configuration?

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    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @03:15AM (9 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:15AM (#574638) Homepage

      Looks more like optical/chemical detection rather than RF/microwave, possibly with some IMSI-catcher stuff in there. It smells all and can detect explosives, drugs, toxins, the smell of human fear, pirated software, and bootleg DVDs.

      I have a weird tale of my own regarding weird shit on light posts. If I quit shitposting on Soylent, it means they got me. I am in good health, happy, with a very well-functioning vehicle, and have no plans whatsoever to commit self-harm.

      Anyway, as of a few years ago, I started noticing cylindrical antenna radomes mounted on much of the street light posts. Going to look at one up-close with the naked eye revealed a yellow triangle of RF radiation warning as well as a coax (probably with n-type connector) feed from the cereal box-sized electronics enclosure to the antenna*.

      One time, I saw a crew in a utility truck maintaining one. The company was called Liberty [Something], with the Liberty Bell as their logo, based out of Corona, CA. Looking at their website I noticed that military background was heavily emphasized in their job application -- much more than usual given that industry.

      Now that is weird, you'd think with all the telecom experts here in San Diego you'd have a local firm (or the city itself) be maintaining those. IMSI catchers, perhaps? Like the ones found in DC by the security experts?

      * Come-on, I know that at least one of you knows what that really is. What the hell are they?

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 29 2017, @04:37AM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:37AM (#574660)

        This reminds me of something somewhat similar I saw going up on the DC Mall last year: they installed a bunch of towers with odd pod-things on them, and some pretty big cabling going to the pods. I didn't catch who the installers were affiliated with; I might have a photo of these things somewhere. But sometime after the inauguration, they seemed to disappear, and I don't see them there any more.

      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Friday September 29 2017, @04:57AM

        by anubi (2828) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:57AM (#574669) Journal

        My guess is those are a nodal packet switching backup for the city.

        In the event all hell breaks loose and the internet/cell towers go down, the city police/fire/medical will still have communication.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Friday September 29 2017, @01:31PM (3 children)

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @01:31PM (#574770)

        Looks more like optical/chemical detection

        Eth-OH has it. I remember as a kid walking 2 miles to middle school past a light industrial area that had an official EPA air quality monitoring station at its eastern border (prevailing winds, etc) and the crazy number and direction of vents vaguely reminds me of that old thing from days long ago. Air vents everywhere at all heights above ground and all directions with grates to keep the birds nests out. In the old days it was a large station like five or so square yards of something that looked like a weird star trek episode complete with some blinking lights, I guess newer tech shrinking it down, etc.

        Those vents are very air-move-y not EE waveguide for cell phones.

        Obviously this isn't boring EPA its some cloak and dagger .mil NBC monitoring stuff. Neutron activate dust particles or maybe FTIR organic chemical gasses or both.

        Of course it MIGHT be a cell phone or blue tooth or tire pressure, or all three, sniffing system with about $100 of industrial air duct products bolted on that do absolutely nothing at all to throw us off. OR it does air monitoring for NBC terror/false flag weapons in addition to RF sniffing. Given how little space and power it takes to do RF stuff it probably has a special package bolted onto it regardless of what its "supposed" to do.

        Until I saw the pics I thought they were talking about gates. We had gates added to our interstate on ramps in the early war on terror era. I would imagine tunnels and bridges need gates for handing fires and accidents, this is of course different.

        It looks like a bad place for a camera, so its not for visual stuff. Unless its there to throw us off...

        Speaking of tire pressure monitoring systems, those are serial numbered for tracking vehicle purposes. Kinda creepy how those were demanded on all vehicles not just ford exploder SUVs. Although of course IIRC they rammed those tracking device thru, merely months before people started carrying tracking device smartphones everywhere including in cars, so they're kinda useless for general surveillance now compared to delicious tracking abilities of smart phones.

        • (Score: 2) by jcross on Friday September 29 2017, @01:57PM (1 child)

          by jcross (4009) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:57PM (#574787)

          In the video they showed a closeup of one of the "units" and it looked like behind the louvers it had a large square grid of round things, which reminded me of some kind of LED lighting array, I would assume not in the visible spectrum if that's what's it is. Does it look like a plausible component of an air sampling system?

          • (Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Friday September 29 2017, @02:32PM

            by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @02:32PM (#574807)

            Sure, there's a classic particle detector design where you shine light thru the air and have what amounts to a computer watching a microscope, with infinite patience, watch individual illuminated particles float by, then scale up the numbers to ug/cu meter or whatever.

            Then you have the computer vision system play analysis games on the particles to bin them by particle size or even identify them "oh thats a spec of diesel soot, that's an individual concrete dust chunk, that's an anthrax spore, whoopsie sound the alarm"

            Or its theater set crews mocking up something to trick us into thinking a RF station is an air quality station.

            Or its something else, of course.

        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:48AM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:48AM (#575150)

          But... you can turn a cell phone off, or even put it in a tinfoil bag.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday September 29 2017, @02:41PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:41PM (#574810)

        That tracks with a security contract that I was tangentially involved with the bidding on back in 2013 - sniffers to be placed on top of buildings and other places looking for traces of bioweapons, they (said that they) could PCR amplify and identify many common bioweapons from unique DNA sequences. Then, of course, the in-field lab has to communicate threat detections back to the command/control network, using much the same network as video security cameras.

        What steered me away from such things was the sort of uniformity of the towers in the New York footage, looked like maybe 16 identical hooded pods with that array of things in each one, but maybe...

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:24PM (#574971)

        They're for Project Bluebeam or whatever the fuck it's called. For projecting holograms so we can have a fake second coming of god or some such garbage. That'd be my guess! :D

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:49PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:49PM (#575086)

        aren't they testing the gunshot sensor/detectors?

        i thought they were going to put those all over, to add even more data to their cyber crime fighting patriot stuff.

        in addition to bluetooth, IMEI and wifi mac address collection as you drive pass, vin and license plate too. airplane mode for phones on your passengers doesn't actually disable that stuff and they are guilty by association with whoever is targeted for example making. blue tooth in cars is the best thing since red light cameras. just imagine a license plate that yells its number 24x7.

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday September 29 2017, @01:53PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:53PM (#574783)

      Could it be a photon-emitter array? (LEDs) With batteries and a charger in the ventilated cage? Kept "secret" to let everyone speculate, worry, and stew?

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Friday September 29 2017, @03:20AM (25 children)

    by edIII (791) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:20AM (#574639)

    If it is Z Backscatter designed to severely compromise the civil rights, and human rights, of American Citizens in a mass surveillance fashion, then bomb the fuck out them. Tire necklaces on steroids. Cut the fiber. Use our own lasers, whatever, to fuck them over from a distance. Mini drones with thermite burning through the equipment.

    Whatever it takes to turn those things off. Under no circumstances should the government get to have a secret project like that in civilian areas. Area 51 is okay, where millions of commuters pass through is not.

    If it really is some mass surveillance, I expect quite a backlash because there is no opt-out.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:49AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:49AM (#574647)

      If it really is some mass surveillance, I expect quite a backlash because there is no opt-out.

      I hope there is a backlash, but I expect none. Because, terrorism! mumble mumble danger!

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 29 2017, @05:33AM (4 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 29 2017, @05:33AM (#574682)

        If you have nothing to hide, why do you want to prevent us from protecting people from $BadGuys ?

        • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:07AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @06:07AM (#574693)

          ... than whether your snot-nosed kid gets blown up.

          Also, who is "us"? Fuck off.

        • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday September 29 2017, @11:23AM (1 child)

          by Gaaark (41) on Friday September 29 2017, @11:23AM (#574741) Journal

          Said the Nazi to the Jew $BadGuy

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          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:04PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:04PM (#575061)

            Said the jew to the natives of whatever land the jew parasite happens to be occupying and exploiting at the time.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:22PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:22PM (#575043)

          … than whether your snot-nosed kid gets blown up.

          Also, who is "us"? Fuck off.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday September 29 2017, @04:18AM (18 children)

      by frojack (1554) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:18AM (#574652) Journal

      If it really is some mass surveillance

      I can think of worse things than mere surveillance. (Like this would be the first instance of that!)

      There's no telling what is behind those arrays are, but they don't look like cameras. You don't need arrays of fixed cameras.
      Look more like a radar array emitters, but could be any sort of NBC detectors. They could be xray emitters, which would be plenty of reason to keep it secret.

      But the circular arrays appear to point in all directions, and don't appear tob be motorized.
      That could be gun shot analysis, or chemical analysis. But why only near bridges? And why so secret.

      If they were merely detectors, there is no reason to keep them all that secret. After all the objective is to protect the bridges and tunnels. Deterrence is the best protection.

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      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday September 29 2017, @04:35AM (2 children)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:35AM (#574659)

        They could be xray emitters, which would be plenty of reason to keep it secret.

        Does anyone have any plans for an X-ray detector? Or a link to a device you can purchase? Something like that could be useful, with things like this popping up, plus the scanners that DHS has been using on roadways which are powerful enough to X-ray through your vehicle with you in it.

        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by dwilson on Friday September 29 2017, @05:18AM (1 child)

          by dwilson (2599) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @05:18AM (#574678) Journal

          I believe a scintillation tube [wikipedia.org] is what you're looking for, with the proper electronics package bolted on. I have no idea where you'd find a complete, ready-to-use device as an off the shelf purchase, though.

          Anecdote: I once worked with a fellow who had been an electronics technician for a wireline company in a previous career. He had (many) horror stories about his time there, and one of the milder ones was about a time that he spent all day trying to diagnose and repair what should have been a simple problem with one of the downhole tools. The tool in question contained a neutron source (the actual source was locked up in it's safe, he had a -much- weaker handheld source for testing purposes) used to probe the surrounding rock as it went down the well, plus assorted electronics for reading the results. The detectors were all based around scintillation tubes. He had a hell of a time with it, intermittent failures, results showing up unexpectedly. A pull-your-hair-out sort of day, repeating the same tests under the same conditions and getting wildly different results. It turns out that the business across the street, a pipeline company, had been running 'non-destructive' tests on some sections of pipeline, which involves bombarding them with x-rays. The tool was so sensitive it was picking up the scattered x-rays from across the road and two largish truck yards.

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          • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday September 29 2017, @01:39PM

            by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @01:39PM (#574773)

            XRF guns.

            http://www.eonpro.com/metal/ [eonpro.com]

            They are SO cool. They're the next FLIR in that they're incredibly insanely useful but the technology and qtys mean they cost $30K today but thats actually pretty cheap because they were bench tools costing $150K just last decade.

            Apparently you can hurt yourself pretty well with XRF guns so they may never be as popular as FLIR but who knows.

            For those too lazy to click thru or wikipedia, they're basically a star trek scanner. Wave it over a piece of mystery metal and seconds later, Oh I see its a bar of "C12L14 ledloy (tm)" or whatever to many decimal places. Really cool. Dumb people think it can tell you if the metal is tempered or hardened correctly, not so much AFAIK.

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:47AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:47AM (#574664)

        Near bridges because that is where all vehicles enter the area from, good choke point. What is in them? Who can really say? All I know is I'm tired of living in this world where shady organizations get to do all sorts of shady shit and the people are shit out of luck.

        On a similar note, there were some very odd boxes hanging from a tunnel in San Francisco on the way to the Golden Gate bridge. They had a triangular pattern on the front made from what looked like solar panel crystals and they had no obvious purpose. A few years later they are now all gone. Maybe they found a more covert method for whatever they were.

        My bet is on these being emitters and detectors operating at a range of frequencies which would make it easy to detect, well, everything. Now what is the increase in cancer risks for those daily commuters driving past these things? I do hope we're all wrong, but these days you don't even need to put on the tinfoil hat to find shady shit everywhere.

        The "big incident" sure did a number of US psychology, sent 50% of the country into an absolute state of terror, ha ha haaaablergh, which allowed this kind of bullshit to glide right through. I fully expect the shady bastards to try and ride this dead horse until it collapses from exhaustion, then we'll have fun putting all our pieces back together. They've already stripped basic dignity and civil rights completely away when it suits them, and so far no real push back. We all still file along as they march as they slowly crank up the heat, we'll be cooked and ready to serve by the time we as a whole figure it out.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday September 29 2017, @05:44AM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @05:44AM (#574685) Journal

          All I know is I'm tired of living in this world where shady organizations get to do all sorts of shady shit and the people are shit out of luck.

          Ask Runaway if he saw any kind of shady shit on his farmlet.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:08PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:08PM (#574926)

            Are you kidding? He IS the shady shit ;P Poor sheep are ready to stage a coup to keep him from disrobing their females.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Friday September 29 2017, @04:49AM (9 children)

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:49AM (#574666) Journal

        but could be any sort of NBC detectors.

        They detect the National Broadcasting Company?

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        • (Score: 3, Informative) by anubi on Friday September 29 2017, @05:01AM

          by anubi (2828) on Friday September 29 2017, @05:01AM (#574672) Journal

          NBC = Nuclear, Biological and Chemical.

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        • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Friday September 29 2017, @05:08AM (1 child)

          by Hartree (195) on Friday September 29 2017, @05:08AM (#574676)

          "They detect the National Broadcasting Company?"

          No, that's the National Bank of Canada.

          And if it detects those sneaky Canucks, it'll activate the Hacker Hellstorm.

          • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday September 29 2017, @11:30AM

            by Gaaark (41) on Friday September 29 2017, @11:30AM (#574742) Journal

            Come join the North side: We have beer!

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:13AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:13AM (#574677)

          Nah, man. "Non-bran cereal"...

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:25AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:25AM (#574680)

            Non-binary child

          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32AM (#574681)

            Gotta have my bran or I don't give a shit.

        • (Score: 2) by UncleSlacky on Friday September 29 2017, @09:47AM (2 children)

          by UncleSlacky (2859) on Friday September 29 2017, @09:47AM (#574728)

          No, cookies. (an oblique reference to SNL's "Star Trek final episode" sketch).

          • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Friday September 29 2017, @05:07PM (1 child)

            by Osamabobama (5842) on Friday September 29 2017, @05:07PM (#574925)

            That usage is usually abbreviated "Nabisco."

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            • (Score: 2) by UncleSlacky on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:51PM

              by UncleSlacky (2859) on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:51PM (#575289)

              From http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75vstartrek.phtml [jt.org] :

              "That's called a "California license plate", and it's registered, or was in 1968, to a corporation known as "NBC". Wait.. there's something more.. The computer isn't sure, but it thinks this NBC used to manufacture cookies."

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:45AM (#574727)

        But why only near bridges?

        If you want to cripple the island that is NYC you attack the bridges and tunnels. Also, you detect what ever nastiness comes in when it arrives.

        And why so secret.

        You prevent the “we need to attack now, before these new devices catch us!” crowd.

        If they were merely detectors, there is no reason to keep them all that secret. After all the objective is to protect the bridges and tunnels. Deterrence is the best protection.

        We may never know what they really are, or the real capabilities, to prevent these devices from becoming targets.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:13PM (#574826)

        But why only near bridges? And why so secret.

        Bridges are choke points [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:39AM (#574683)

    If you would like to see them without enabling 783 scripts, then here is a direct link to the pic :
    http://cbslocal-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/captures/686/607/686607ED069441F1A3A7BCEA5F5C3C99.jpg [amazonaws.com]

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Friday September 29 2017, @02:17PM

      by bradley13 (3053) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:17PM (#574800) Homepage Journal

      Interesting pic. The bands look like material designed to be transparent to certain frequencies, so almost certainly emitters of some kind. The mesh is odd, because it looks like you should be able to see through it. Someone ought to be able to get close, shine a light in, and see what equipment is inside. Looking at the emitter antennas could give an idea of the frequencies in use. Alternatively, some electronic wizard could just park nearby, and run a frequency scan.

      In any case, surveillance of the general public should be general knowledge. If these things are on public roads, people should know what they are, and have an opportunity to object.

      The public should also know exactly what data is collected, and what is done with it. Consider the possibilities: scan data could be coupled to a license plate scanner, and timestamped. The detectors may well be able to tell how many people are in your car, what kinds of objects are in the back seat or the trunk, when and what direction you are driving. If that information is kept more than an instant, it is a huge invasion of privacy that ought to require a specific warrant.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by http on Friday September 29 2017, @06:13AM (2 children)

    by http (1920) on Friday September 29 2017, @06:13AM (#574698)

    Pay a crackhead to tear them down (promise them you'll buy the scrap metal!) and see who comes running.

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    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday September 29 2017, @12:36PM (1 child)

      by RamiK (1813) on Friday September 29 2017, @12:36PM (#574751)

      Better use a can of paint and a water gun to target the transparent glass\plastic covering the sensor boxes. Same maintenance crew but you'd be less likely to get thrown to jail and billed million in damages if you end up getting caught.

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      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @12:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @12:41PM (#574754)

        What parent was proposing was to have someone else get caught :)

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by J053 on Friday September 29 2017, @08:12PM

    by J053 (3532) <dakineNO@SPAMshangri-la.cx> on Friday September 29 2017, @08:12PM (#575034) Homepage
    SCORPION STARE
  • (Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Friday September 29 2017, @09:30PM

    by dx3bydt3 (82) on Friday September 29 2017, @09:30PM (#575076)

    The summary reads eerily like a script for the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. [welcometonightvale.com]

  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:42PM (#575083)

    The devices installed do their job very well. They are designed to siphon money out of every tax payer's meager earnings and send it to the pockets of whoever is selling those devices. The manufacturer must be jewish and from israel (occupied Palestine). As a side-note, the devices should be capable of downloading private data from phones etc, might even be some basic mind reader/controller. The jew says his wares are the best and least expensive, but in reality his wares are the least quality and the most costly.

    It is expensive dealing with jews.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:19AM (#575138)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ-J_H9BApE [youtube.com] has the video of the CBS report.

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