CatbusImportant lesson for social movements:
You don't need to use the brick, but you must have one
You don't need to use the brick, but you must have one
Marc Hedlund@ancient_catbus @jef this works for me with my helmet camera on my bike helmet: if the camera is on the helmet, people drive more carefully around me whether the camera is on/charged or not.
Jef Poskanzer@marcprecipice @ancient_catbus Yeah, I am too lazy to deal with a bike camera (charging, operating, downloading, editing) but I've considered mounting someone else's donated old broken bike cam as a deterrent.
@jef @ancient_catbus it’s totally worth it.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@jef @marcprecipice @ancient_catbus We had three clothing stores and didn’t want to spend the money on three sensors so I took a cardboard box cut it to the exact shape of the sensors we had just paid $2000 each for for the other stores, painted it textured it put an LED in it and added a fake cord… Bingo, no shoplifters.
dragonfrog@Pineywoozle @jef @marcprecipice @ancient_catbus
I had my bike stolen from outside the grocery store, from the rack right under a security camera dome.
I went inside, asked at the service counter if they had footage from the camera over the bike rack. "Oh, that camera hasn't worked as long as I've worked here. I don't even know if there is a camera in that dome."
Not perfect I guess...
@dragonfrog @jef @marcprecipice @ancient_catbus No sadly, nothing is. We had security tape on all the windows etc, a full system. The burglars that literally cleaned out 1 of our stores & loaded everything into a semi in 4 hours, did so by breaking through a brick wall. Our stores were 1/3 New from Europe & La - 1/3 Vintage & 1/3 upscale resale. When our customers learned of the break in they just gave us $1,000s of $s worth of jewelry 🥰💕🫶
MemphisDaPlaya 🎲🎲@Pineywoozle @jef @marcprecipice @ancient_catbus
I'm going to steal that idea.
@GoatRoper @jef @marcprecipice @ancient_catbus LoL I used cream of wheat mixed into the second coat of paint for the perfect nubby texture.
Yimby Earth has moved!@marcprecipice @ancient_catbus @jef
i.e. the drivers could not only see you all along, they saw you well enough to pick out a fairly small detail. And many of them just didn't care about cyclists' safety until they thought they might get caught.
i.e. the drivers could not only see you all along, they saw you well enough to pick out a fairly small detail. And many of them just didn't care about cyclists' safety until they thought they might get caught.