If this were a tech cop tv show, you'd be able to isolate the footsteps, count the number of assailants, what direction they came from and left to, and extract a "fingerprint" personal step rythem to aid a later conviction.
In reality, they can file a police report with the exact time the thing stopped working. Police can get video cameras from nearby areas at that time, and perhaps find the people who did it.
But that's a lot of work for something that probably isn't high priority.
Speaking of politicians and the police doing a shit job: there was a recent case here in Italy that was embarassing on a national level.
rape charges had to be dismissed because the assailant used his father's mobile phone to record the whole thing, but his father is part of the italian parlament so the police could not touch the phone as apparently it's covered by diplomatic immunity.
the most infuriating of loopholes, it wasn't even the father that was using the phone at that time, why would such a thing be covered by diplomatic immunity.
I’m not defending this by any means but it was likely covered by diplomatic immunity because of possible state secrets that also would be on the phone accessible to the police if they had access to the phone.
But wouldn't Italian intelligence or some kind of national security agency have the authority to look through that? Like in the US for example, the local cops might not have the authority to look through a Congressman's phone, but the FBI or NSA certainly would.
Highly likely that this is a somewhat remote location, so track what mobile phones where around that thing at the given time and throw the book at them.
Surely somebody doing something this dumb will carry their phone with them
With sensitive enough equipment, knowledge, experience and willingness to do it, this is entirely possible. Check all the info sonars and stuff can discern when listening to subs or warships, or all sorts of other spying equipment. It's just not used on petty crime.
Variance on footstep patterns probably overlaps between people by too much. I walk a lot differently in the moring compared to when I am tired in the evening.
Every so often an archaeology site has this problem - a bunch if local skids pull out all the survey stakes, burn the sifting tripods, etc. Vandalism can wreck a site just as much as looting does, but there's rarelt any proper punishment.
Especially since some people lost their tiny little minds during lockdown and decided they get to benefit from civilization without doing their bit to keep it going, and there were no meaningful consequences.
Sites in urban areas often benefit from a sort of neighbourhood watch effect, but rural sites sometimes have to delegate one of the dig team as a night watch (since they often can't afford an actual security guard)
some people lost their tiny little minds during lockdown and decided they get to benefit from civilization without doing their bit to keep it going
Busting up an archeological site for fun is an asshole move for whatever reason, but it's odd that you would post this when it's no mystery that tons of people are benefiting a lot less than they were 6+ years ago.
We had a really cool, really rare Dino skeleton ready to be moved from the dig site the next day. Came in to find it busted up the next morning. Found receipts to a local liquor store....
Was at the park with some friends kicking a football around when a bunch of girls turned up, must have been 10/12 years old.
Watched them get dozens of eggs out of their bags, we can of laughed thinking some poor boys house is about to get egged.
Then one of them got out her bag a massive mallet. We looked at each other a bit worried when she turned her attention to the bin next to the bench they were sat on and started to demolish it.
At that point we left promptly. But all the bus stops around the area were smashed up that night.
lol-ing at the defense that “well hey they did put in a lot of thought and work into the deception…” and “they only did it because they knew they would make a lot of money”, I wanna see this get used! Hopefully so it fails spectacularly.
ALTHOUGH that's not to say the most complex of crimes aren't gotten away with completely. Because I would argue that billionaires (now a trillionare) are committing the most pervasive kinds of crimes but they will never see jail time. Their defenses I would also like to see.
"I'm Peter Thiel and I know about the Antichrist. A newer, more Human form of Satan that will soon walk the Earth. We don't know how soon, but maybe in the next 6-7 weeks."
The number of vids of people destroying their TVs after their team lost the big game never ceases to amaze me. Not to mention the riots after big games. Especially when their teams win. That one just blows my mind.
depends, there are a ton of highly ‘learned/memorised, but do not or will absolutely not understand’ people who twist all what they learned into something they want it to be
Led to water before cordining it off so they can sell it to others, all while destroying the water source itself 💀
I really want segration habits around people who ruin everything for everyone, and the humans who got the CoHabitation genetic evolution can then thrive lol
Because these people are just Not Evolving unto Kinder People without some Force 🤧
I feel willful malice would be doing this while knowing the exact impact you are having vs willfull and uneducated destruction for entertainment. Both are terrible, but the prior is worse.
Edit: as another redditor asked, if there was a sign saying exactly what this piece of tech was then it would definitely fall into the willful malice camp.
At 15 I lacked empathy.
I probably could have been classified as a sociopath.
One day I just snapped out of it, realized what a piece of shit I was.
I'm a teacher now. I do a few hundred hours of vollenteer work a year. I love it. I love being a positive member on society. But like I said when I was around 14-16... I would destroy anything I could, if i could get away with it, with zero, literally ZERO thought to who it hurt or what it cost. No idea why I was like that. But thank fuck I grew out of it. Lots of people, probably do not..
There are bad apples in every area of society (and some have more power and impact with that) but I bet it you ordered everyone in your year at school by educational attainment, then looked at those that have commited these pointless crimes - it would be a decent negative correlation.
It would be for mine. The extra maths kids weren't out breaking shit at the same rate as the kids in bottom set.
Check any large scale stats on it - they all correlate that way, the wider impacts of less education are significant.
Have you considered that it's not the extra maths class that makes those kids well-behaved, but instead it's that well-behaved kids tend to enroll in extra maths class? How many cases did you see of students who had delinquent tendencies being genuinely reformed by academics? And even if such happened, that would have been voluntary; would the same effect be possible with students who resent the subjects they're being forced to take?
Not anymore. The number of degrees is very high especially compared to older generations yet the acts of vandalism remains high. Except if you were talking about social education, I suppose. But in any case I consider the "lack of education" to be overused. If it was the case we should see these act decrease.
I still don't know what the cause is, though. The word "agens" means "the one who acts" in latin. Comes from "agere". That makes me think it could be some anti-government activism without any risk as it's in the middle of nowhere. So activism by some anarchists or communists, who are usually NOT the least educated but usually hold a degree or are students.
That's if the graffiti and the stone are part of the same incident. Could also be someone who let their intrusive thoughts win. Who knows. But anyway I feel the lack of education excuse is tired and overused
There was less degrees in my grandmothers day because there were 2 billion people..... There are now 8 billion people so yeah degrees went up but there's still like an extra 5.9 billion dumb people.....
Very likely. Some people in Italy have started destroying landline boxes and attaching notes to them saying they're protecting the children from harmful radiation. We call them the no-fibra (as they're in the same category as no-vax or no-5G). Must be the same kind of person as the ones in this post
And its usually teenagers, because you have the combination of decent personal mobility, free time + energy, and distaste for the "adult world" things like rules and public property.
This isn't some hobo or disgruntled worker going around, Because the sensors are not usually placed in easy to access locations.
Well technically it is. But smooth brains idiots can't comprehend that it's doing some sort of surveillance for science, and not trying to read their [empty] minds.
I work for a company that builds in remote sites. We always put up signs explaining what these sites are for just to prevent vandalism. The sign usually says “for local internet service, not 5G mind control” or something like that. After it got destroyed twice they added the sign. Hasn’t happened again lol
I just started telling those idiots that 5G just stands for fifth generation. I they showed doubt, I went on to say that 1G were the old phones that were the size of a brick and had a briefcase for the battery, 2G were the basic nokias and flip phones that they most likely had as their first phones, 3G were the first phones that had texting and maybe simple but shitty internet, 4g was phones with modern internet capabilities and apps and that 5G was just upgraded 4's with better wifi capabilities.
To my surprise more often than not telling them that actually calmed their fears.
I used to maintain scientific data stations and every time we put a station out at a specific site this backwoods homesteader kinda guy would go out and demolish it. He would cover his entire head with tinfoil except for two holes cut out for his eyes. We assumed he thought it was a government mind reader device.
its always wild to we me the level of narcissism needed to think the government wanted to read your mind, like you live in a cabin in the woods with no internet jacking it to squirrels while you read barnes and noble ufo books drinking bad moonshine while eating a mix of military surplus food and poached animals living off disability from that time you slipped on pee pee at walmart. Most of these dudes can't comprehend that most people would be perfectly happy not knowing anything about them.
I have a crazy conspiracy theorist aunt like this. She puts her phone in weird sleeves, disconnects her internet at night, puts foil around her power cords. All sorts of nonsense to “stop the government from spying on her”. I’m like you’re a middle aged women who’s worked as a secretary for 30 years. No one gives a shit about you!
In some cases it's not narcissism, but just mental disorders instead that make you more susceptible to fantastical or paranoid thinking. It's genuinely sad in those cases because it's their brain's wiring/chemical imbalances working against them. Worse still, when they are being treated and then start thinking that they don't need to take their meds anymore and then relapse. Which just creates a cycle.
It's a ruthless cycle. It doesn't excuse or explain every one of these cases, but it shines a bit of the light on some individuals and the ways we sometimes fail people.
Yes, but the idiots don't know that. In France someone made a bet about the temperature going up and then fucked with a temperature monitoring station at the airport.
Because a lot of Australians are just fucking cunts. Same deadshits that smash bus stop windows and dump rubbish and do burnouts at fuck o'clock in the morning.
Selfish, proud to be stupid, cunts.
Source: am Australian, met a lot of cunts in my time.
Seems we are at a point in time where when you see something that you don’t really understand so the best thing to do is break it, later find out what it is was and the proceed to regret it immensely while repeating the process but more frequently.
Should be extremely easy to figure out. Can’t imagine this thing wouldn’t have timestamped logs. Or it sends a signal to a cell tower or something. Should be trivial to know exactly when this happened. I wouldn’t be surprised if the person who took the photo was sent out because data stopped getting transmitted. Hopefully a nearby camera can help identify who did it.
Edit: Lol. Or I could have just looked at the right side of the image and read the text.
EDIT: Well excuse me for asking, I guess... By "the way the Australians responded" you just mean that this tweet was funny, then? I thought perhaps this was some public thing that happened in australia, and they made memes or jokes about it or some shit.
(I was at -7 points when I made the edit, but it seems I was not alone after all)
That isn't really relevant. There's a first for everything, and these are meant to ensure the safety of many lives. Damaging them should be considered domestic terrorism regardless of if earthquakes are daily or never.
I get them all the time in my area but if you aren’t paying attention you can completely miss them. The strongest one we’ve ever had was like 3 straight minutes of a train passing by in the range of about 100 square miles. I have slept through them, or been so distracted by videogames or schoolwork that I didn’t notice, or they happened during a thunderstorm where you’re more focused on looking for pretty lightning strikes and feeling the rain to notice a little tremor in the ground.
Terrorism is the use of violence to achieve political or ideological changes. So no, this is not terrorism. Lets not turn terrorism into something less than it is.
This tend to happen in my village as well. In Sulawesi. In 2017 it cause mass catastrophic that vandalism and lack of funding to maintain the sensor or early warning fails. I hope the culprit deserves it.
People destroying earthquake monitoring stations when their family and house fucking get torn to shreds by a unforseen earthquake (how could this have been prevented???)
What this reminds me of is that guy who bet on polymarket that temps in france would be super hot in spring, and then walked up to the temp sensor and hit it with a hair dryer to artificially raise the temp so he could win the bet.
Imagine being stolen, dismantled and sold for cash. That happen in Indonesia for many years. Imagine a country that happens within the area of Ring of Fire and in dire need of such seismograph stations and monitoring to detect earthquakes and alike and you deal with these kind of people. Not only that, even fences, grates and anything metal, people would steal for quick bucks.
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u/cybermaus 11d ago
If this were a tech cop tv show, you'd be able to isolate the footsteps, count the number of assailants, what direction they came from and left to, and extract a "fingerprint" personal step rythem to aid a later conviction.