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That retirement home install in Phoenix last week was wild
I was running wires for a new panel at a retirement home near downtown and noticed the place had fake cameras stuck on every wall. Property manager said they "save $200 a month on monitoring" by just pretending. Does anyone else run into these fake setups or is it just me?
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sage_dixon18d ago
...yeah I actually fell for one of those fake cameras once. Walked into this warehouse job, saw a dome camera staring right at me from the corner, even had a little blinking red light. Spent a solid 45 minutes trying to figure out how to route my wires around it before the building manager came in laughing. Said it's been dead for three years, just the light still flickering from a battery. Made me feel like a real genius.
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olivia_harris1917d ago
Nah I gotta disagree a little here. That blinking red light isn't just a random add-on, it's actually a really smart psychological trick. People see a light and their brain goes "oh it's on, I'm being watched." Same way those fake security stickers on windows work. I've seen stores that literally just have a single dead camera with a working light and it cuts shoplifting way down. The battery might be a joke but the strategy is solid.
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