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Man arrested in Oviedo [Florida] for smashing fake police Flock camera (www.wftv.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Imagine all that effort put into catching someone smashing a stupid camera, it could've been used on a pedophile or something.

You've been warned, they're high on the lookout for Flock vandals now.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 24 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine all that effort put into catching someone smashing a stupid camera, it could’ve been used on a pedophile or something.

Now I'm just imagining them putting out a fake child as a pedo sting.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Catch a Predator is a real thing

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

*was a real thing.

They stopped doing it after one of the people they caught committed suicide.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Perverted Justice and other spinoff vigilante groups are a thing the police still respond to. And the police themselves also do this. They just did this in San Francisco recently. But maybe To Catch a Predator with what’s his face Hanson was stopped.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

Call me when they get these on the show.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago

That’s what they do though