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It is a mess, for sure. Somewhere I read they clean it up every few days. It's been happening for years. But also, those pictures were taken with a long tele
by rootusrootus 5y ago
It is a mess, for sure. Somewhere I read they clean it up every few days. It's been happening for years. But also, those pictures were taken with a long telephoto lens from quite a ways off, which compresses distance and makes it look like an even bigger mess than it really is.
- caf 5y agoYes, the foreshortening is easy to see in this case because of the apparent spacing of the railway sleepers.
- ALittleLight 5y agoA news report posted elsewhere in this thread[1] says the mess goes on for "miles" and thieves are there "daily". It doesn't seem to me like this is a visual distortion caused by lens type. Anecdotally, in the past few months I've had five or six packages just never show up from Amazon whereas in all the years prior that happened so rarely I don't recall any such thing. 1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=zN0CXUEMwjg https://youtube.com/watch?v=zN0CXUEMwjg
- dredmorbius 5y agoEven close shots and shots across rather than down the tracks show tremendous amounts of packaging. John Schreiber's original Twitter thread shows plenty of cross-track, close-in, and overhead shots from both bridges and drones all lacking telephoto compression and revealing abundant strewn packaging: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1481770722271760384.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1481770722271760384.html