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Flock this...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me

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Flock cameras have been rolled out in Texas. I don't watch the news, but social media has had many references to Flock and folks in places like Houston and Austin being mostly very unhappy about it.
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We had them here and public outcry killed them. They're still in place but "supposedly" turned off.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
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Damn shame how they keep getting painted over or cut down…
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I have seen them on back roads around home.
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1984 is being used as an instruction manual, not the warning it was supposed to be. Unreal.
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If you want to know where they are: https://dontgetflocked.com/
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If you want to know where they are: https://dontgetflocked.com/
LOL, The tagline at the bottom of the page "drive around them". WHat a nightmare to try to do that in/around Houston.

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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
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1984 is being used as an instruction manual, not the warning it was supposed to be. Unreal.
Once again we see that Orwell was an optimist.

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