Official Surveillance Unit at Lowes

[Minorcan]

Stuff like this is why I don’t live in a big city. Interesting that like most cool things the government outlaws toy drones so we can’t see them but they use them and units like this to track us. If you don’t like business using them, stop supporting the businesses that use them.

 

[soFlaNative]

That's nothing compared to the aerostats on the southern border.

And your basis for comparison is...?

 

[steelslaver]

I assume those sites are still active. There are a bunch of decommissioned Minuteman sites in the Cheyenne River Breaks, north of Wall, SD. A friend had a family cattle ranch there, where he had grown up.we used to go out there three or four times a year to ride dirt bikes, shoot, chase cattle during the fall roiudup, brand them in the spring, drink whiskey and eat red meat.

One year, my friend’s parents went in with a few other couples to buy the decomissioned launch control center for the ten silos in the immediate area. It was an interesting facility with a couple of buildings. It sat on maybe a couple of acresg surrounded by a 20 ft chain link fence. It was a seven-mile ride across a neighboring ranch.

We would ride over and hang out for an hour or two, fantasizing about whether it would be feasible to put on a motorcycle rally there, or a rock concert. The location was remote, but sat in some beautiful country.

In his youth, as the story goes, the rancher and his buddies might drive into a missile site and do donuts on the concrete pad. They had about 20 minutes before a security vehicle would come out. They never got caught, but they only tried it a couple of times before the novelty wore off, or something.

Ya, the sites around here are active. There is one just a couple miles from my house and just about any gravel or asphalt road in a 50-60 mile radius has some. Like I said a high chain link fence, a pole in one corner and a read while and blue US property sign. I have never even left the main road to drive up to the gate. Usually only about 100 yds or less to the gate. See them playing musical sites sometimes. Big semi shows up with a bunch of Hummers with the machine gun mounted, several security pickups and usually some choppers. Also see them doing stuff at times inside the fences. They have a couple small remote barracks/control centers around and the main base is in Great Falls. You see the troops in their little berets getting stuff in the store and gas stations. They never got guns on them and lots of the citizens here do. NIf they do have handguns they must leave them and holsters with the guy who stays with the Hummer. Actually anymore I don't pay that much attention, It is just another part of the scenery here. Here there are almost no security cameras even in the stores. Crime is pretty low around here. Some "Vandals did, put makeup, eye lashes and red paint on the toe nails and a necklace on the Sinclair dinosaur in Stanford though.

Sometimes I wonder if the government keeps some kind of loose file on the people around here though. Once I was coming back from a job in Cal. Wanted to see the Hoover dam. There was a security check point, Truck had canopy, big tool box and totes of work clothes etc. Homeland Security guy started having me dig through it and open stuff. Gonna be a pain. Just started and a heavy showed up. Said "You from Fergus county?" I said "Ya, Lewistown". He looked at the guard and said "Let him go". That was it. Made me wonder about some stuff. LOL

 

[gonerydin]

Saw one of this in the Lowes parking lot! Solar panels had some kind of announcement repeating over and over in English and Spanish. At least 4 big cameras,
Gee hope someone doesn't hook up the trailer hitch and steal it!


Right out of Robo Cop or similar movie!


MSU Pro Solar, Mobile Surveillance Unit Security System - ECAMSECURE

I wonder if it can also scan license plates.

 

[Sistema1927]

And your basis for comparison is...?

Observation. I've seen those suckers high in the sky over southern Arizona.

The parking lot surveillance cart isn't 15,000 ft. in the air. The aerostat has a surveillance range of 250 miles.

 

[soFlaNative]

Observation. I've seen those suckers high in the sky over southern Arizona.

The parking lot surveillance cart isn't 15,000 ft. in the air. The aerostat has a surveillance range of 250 miles.

Just a bit overkill for a bump 'n scratch at the local Loew's ya think?