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Sometimes a camera just needs a sock.

The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.

They also need a solar panel protector. They can’t be cheap to replace/clean should they encounter a hailstorm or loitering pigeons. Your tax money, your investment, your responsibility.

Just remember to use a transparent PC or PETG filament otherwise you run the risk of sub-optimal light transmission. Something cheap and opaque might render the panel, and therefore the camera, useless.

You could also add some sort of adhesive to make it so the protective cover wouldn't blow off from the wind. I mean, like, it would really be on there. Almost permanent, even.

This is dumb. Sorry not sorry.

Just destroy the camera. You’re going to jail either way if caught. You haven’t found some secret trick to fool the courts.

I mean it is pretty dumb in that regard, but we should apprechiate the effort as it's pretty damn funny

Maybe a kind of spray-on adhesive, and what if the spray-on adhesive was opaque, then you get double protection!

Actually, then you would ONLY need the spray-on adhesive, just spray a healthy amount on the lens (the most light sensitive part) and you'd be done

Now if only there existed a product like that that is available in pretty much every hardware store and hobbyshop...

iirc the docs for flock sock said that some types of plastic will automatically self adhere in strong solar conditions.

Work smarter, not harder

You could argue it wasn't destruction of property and get the charges reduced.

You'll still get slapped with vandalism or something, but shouldn't be as bad as destroying the unit.

Just use a black plastic bag. If the sun cooks it, it will melt into the lens and ruin it anyway.

It could be tricky to get the bag over it if it's windy, you would need something on the end of your stick to hold the bag open.

Something like that would actually make sense to make a 3d print of. It could be reused that way.

I don’t think most you have lawyers good enough to be fucking around on a per charge basis for a job destructive action cheaply fixed but okay have fun with it.

if youre doing this why not just use a paintball gun or a spray can

those of you who do are probably smart enough not to do shit like this