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  • Bulk of these cameras are actually installed at the behest of the control freaks sitting on HOAs. They are the real target audience for these cameras because they love the power trip over other people. It seems if you don't get enough attention as a child, you will just grow up to become a control freak.
    by neya
  • There are plenty of people here working on surveillance tech. Is this the world you want to be building?
    by fedpost
  • How much money did they waste in police and court resources over a swing obviously in disrepair if it broke so easily? How much resources/money did they waste having someone create invoices for numerous children/families? How much resources/money did they waste on harassing/tormenting children and their families instead of just fixing the damn thing?

    So nice to see such enormous time and resources being spent on catching actual criminals

    by aspbee555
  • If the chain broke from twisting it up and letting it go, it was in disrepair before the kids started using it. Maybe the city admin should be charged with negligence for letting the infrastructure crumble.
    by donmcronald
  • I don't think we understand yet the kind of world we are building.

    All the small decisions we are making will shape our future: algorithmic decision making, social network broadcasting and "self-reporting", light-speed meme transmission, always-on audio and video surveillance... the list goes on and on. One day we'll wake up to see we've build a jail around us we can't escape.

    by nomagicbullet
  • When I was a kid twisting a swing so you could ride it as it untwisted was something that happend dozens of times every recess. This was something every kid did. If your playground equipment falls apart as a result of the standard way kids use a swing then I think that is a manufacture issue not criminal behavior by a 10 year old
    by uberman
  • That link is an activist YouTube channel. Closest I could find to a news organization reporting on this:

    https://www.wtae.com/article/springdale-playground-swing-cou...

    by neilv
  • Here is a direct news link to the actual incident: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/springdale-girls-cou...
    by jerlam

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