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In the video, the woman’s face is clearly visible and there is no obvious criminal activity taking place. The Facebook post shows her passing between two

In the video, the woman’s face is clearly visible and there is no obvious criminal activity taking place. The Facebook post shows her passing between two cars. She pulls the door handle of one of the cars, but it is locked. Yeah that's pretty clearly attempting to steal vehicles / contents of vehicles, that's 100% what that looks like.

smacktoward 7y ago
In a surveillance state, all behavior is by definition suspicious behavior.
- booleandilemma 7y ago
  It wouldn’t have been suspicious if she had just walked between the 2 cars, but she tried to break into one of them, and at about 8 seconds in you can clearly see her scanning the parking lot to see if anyone is watching her.
  - DoctorOetker 7y ago
    I've had embarassing situations where an outsider might misinterpret my behaviour such that I would scan around for a good moment, good in the sense of not being bothered needlessly: 1. one time I lost the key to my bicycle lock, so I had to cut it free, ... obviously I looked around for a calmer moment, even though it simply was my bike. 2. another time I (or a friend, I can't remember) threw my frisbee on the roof of a small entrance building with elevator to the underground parking lot under a public square. Although the height could be scaled by climbing some structure besides it, we didn't because it was too busy... then I told my brother about what happened without asking him to get it... the next day I decide to get it, but there was a police car doing a patrol and passing every 7 minutes, ... so I doubt for a while, then stop the police car on its next tour, ask the cops if I can go fetch my frisbee from the roof,... very hesitant to give any explicit permission they subtextually indicate they don't care, as long as I do it quickly while they are there... so climb the structure, then the roof, ... no frisbee! later I would learn my brother had already retrieved it...
emusan 7y ago
For a few years my only vehicle was an old, beat up Volvo station wagon. The door locks were damaged and would only lock ~50% of the time. Since I parked the car on the street I would always check to ensure that the doors were locked by pulling on a door handle. One time I did this as a car passed by and a number of people started yelling out of the car at me accusing me of breaking into my own car and even threatening me if I continued. Just because a small, cut down clip "looks like" attempted robbery does not mean that it is.
- turtlebits 7y ago
  Well the Ring ad on facebook says "this woman was caught on camera breaking into a vehicle". So I don't think it could be a false report of attempted robbery, unless Ring is lying.
  - elliekelly 7y ago
    We don’t live in a world where you can presume truth in a Facebook advertisement.
mosselman 7y ago
Is it?
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Balgair 7y ago
Time out. Despite it being VICE News (who do not quote Sgt. Tim Dahl in the article for some reason), and despite one video of some person we know nothing about and lack all context for, the article is actually a good dive into some strange stuff that is occuring between Amazon, FB, and MVPD. Everyone should actually read the article and go look at the FB post by MVPD. The VICE headline is pure clickbait. That said, yeah, that looks shady.
- awinder 7y ago
  Agreed it’s overall a good article & the topic is nuanced for sure, it’s a great intro article and worthy of debate. But it’s also editorialized so do breathe.
tzs 7y ago
As far as I know, it has never been a requirement that when the police would like the public to help find a person accused of crime X, the photo they give to help the public recognize the person must be a photo of the person actually committing crime X.

smacktoward 7y ago

In a surveillance state, all behavior is by definition suspicious behavior.

booleandilemma 7y ago
It wouldn’t have been suspicious if she had just walked between the 2 cars, but she tried to break into one of them, and at about 8 seconds in you can clearly see her scanning the parking lot to see if anyone is watching her.
- DoctorOetker 7y ago
  I've had embarassing situations where an outsider might misinterpret my behaviour such that I would scan around for a good moment, good in the sense of not being bothered needlessly: 1. one time I lost the key to my bicycle lock, so I had to cut it free, ... obviously I looked around for a calmer moment, even though it simply was my bike. 2. another time I (or a friend, I can't remember) threw my frisbee on the roof of a small entrance building with elevator to the underground parking lot under a public square. Although the height could be scaled by climbing some structure besides it, we didn't because it was too busy... then I told my brother about what happened without asking him to get it... the next day I decide to get it, but there was a police car doing a patrol and passing every 7 minutes, ... so I doubt for a while, then stop the police car on its next tour, ask the cops if I can go fetch my frisbee from the roof,... very hesitant to give any explicit permission they subtextually indicate they don't care, as long as I do it quickly while they are there... so climb the structure, then the roof, ... no frisbee! later I would learn my brother had already retrieved it...

emusan 7y ago

For a few years my only vehicle was an old, beat up Volvo station wagon. The door locks were damaged and would only lock ~50% of the time. Since I parked the car on the street I would always check to ensure that the doors were locked by pulling on a door handle. One time I did this as a car passed by and a number of people started yelling out of the car at me accusing me of breaking into my own car and even threatening me if I continued. Just because a small, cut down clip "looks like" attempted robbery does not mean that it is.

turtlebits 7y ago
Well the Ring ad on facebook says "this woman was caught on camera breaking into a vehicle". So I don't think it could be a false report of attempted robbery, unless Ring is lying.
- elliekelly 7y ago
  We don’t live in a world where you can presume truth in a Facebook advertisement.

mosselman 7y ago

Is it?

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Balgair 7y ago

Time out. Despite it being VICE News (who do not quote Sgt. Tim Dahl in the article for some reason), and despite one video of some person we know nothing about and lack all context for, the article is actually a good dive into some strange stuff that is occuring between Amazon, FB, and MVPD. Everyone should actually read the article and go look at the FB post by MVPD. The VICE headline is pure clickbait. That said, yeah, that looks shady.

awinder 7y ago
Agreed it’s overall a good article & the topic is nuanced for sure, it’s a great intro article and worthy of debate. But it’s also editorialized so do breathe.

tzs 7y ago

As far as I know, it has never been a requirement that when the police would like the public to help find a person accused of crime X, the photo they give to help the public recognize the person must be a photo of the person actually committing crime X.