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You absolutely can move the thing without cutting it down. It just happens to be quicker to cut them down and most of the people doing this don't care about the charge.

But I do take your meaning and to some extent even agree with it.

Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit.

A lawyer worth their salt should absolutely defend you against a vandalism charge if by the lawful definition no vandalism took place.

Not only that, but a lawyer's job is to make sure the law is followed during legal proceedings. Meaning they are supposed to defend your right to a lawfully handled trial which would include dismissing charges that didn't fit the crime committed.

This is criminal mischief. That's a misdemeanor (just like vandalism).

Theft involves legally speaking an "intent to deprive the owner of their property".

Flock owns the cameras. It's a subscription model where the municipality actually leases the camera and "retains ownership" of the footage/data the collect.

So by rights the CEO having them dropped off on his property could be considered the same as them being returned to the owner.

You can take that however you want. But vandalism has a specific legal definition.

No. I did not. Relocation of the asset to the owners property means there's no intent to deprive the owner of said property which means that it's not theft.

The property has not been defaced, damaged, or destroyed so that means there's no intent of vandalism. Therefore vandalism did not take place.

What you're describing is criminal mischief, which I would agree this is.

I made a singular allowance in the case that the pole was cut (which counts as damage), rather than being dug up (which wouldn't), which you appear to have ignored.

If you don't like facts, that is a you problem.

You are welcome to kagi or whatever this yourself to see what I'm talking about instead of doubling down.

If you are incapable of that, don't bother to respond to me.

Nice downvote.

You didn't look up the legal definition of anything before you posted this nonsense. Have a good day.

Technically not theft. Technically not vandalism.

"Vandalism refers to the intentional destruction or defacement of property"

They relocated the item to its owners house. At best the cutting might be vandalism but you don't have to cut them down. That just happens to be quicker.

My brother in Christ, the hole in the ozone layer fixed itself because we as a race decided to listen to scientists and ban the shit causing it pretty much world wide. A full on concerted effort backed by science. What the fuck.

Depends on the definition of "work". There's plenty of people I had on Facebook that I no longer talk to because I don't use Facebook. To be clear, my Facebook still exists. It's there to face tank all the family photos my MIL shares. That's the only reason the account still exists at all.

That's technically working for me.

But lots of people are just addicted and Facebook or insta or messenger scratches an itch for them.

They think it will blow over because so many consumers have short memories when it comes to bad press.

The problem is, the press keeps on coming and so people keep being reminded they're up to no good. Keeping AI in the news cycle isn't helping them win over people who are increasingly dissatisfied with it.

They can absolutely make it so that disk won't load the game though so long as you're connected to the internet.

Pretty much all software EULA's are like this. Anything you "buy a license for" certainly. Same as it ever was.

Good news, you can opt out of Netflix entirely. The dark side has a flag and shanties and everything.

Lol, no.