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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:30 PM
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Don't know where else to post this question......(dialup warning - pics)
Edited on Sat Nov-10-07 03:31 PM by kestrel91316
What the hell is this thing???
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:32 PM
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1. A camera to catch a getaway car's license plate in case of robbery?
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:34 PM
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3. It's definitely not a camera. The front part of it with the blue circle
is on a separate flat piece that is linked to the white box with a connecter piece. It is pointed at the front door of a business.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:33 PM
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2. subliminal message transmitter.
"Go Shopping" "Buy, buy, buy" "you love debt" "stuff will make you happy"
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:35 PM
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5. This is actually a serious question for the tech types.
I want to know what it is. I have a personal interest in it.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:40 PM
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9.  okay, my serious guess...
Edited on Sat Nov-10-07 03:58 PM by Viva_La_Revolution
some type of scientific monitoring device put up by the city/other. I spent a few years selling security systems, and I don't recognize it. :shrug:

weather sensor?
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v4.13/nlanr_weather.html
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:56 PM
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16. Thanks, could be. Bad link, so I can't see what you are referring to.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:59 PM
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18. fixed.
:blush:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:10 PM
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19. There's no anemometer or windvane. Just the flat square with the
round disc on it, connected to a white painted metal box that is also kind of flat, with a black knob(?) for tweaking the direction it points (?) and a cable going down to the roof, and it's all on an aluminum tripod.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:16 PM
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21. I'm also thinking traffic monitoring...
google images is finding lots of 'similar' looking devices, but nothing exactly the same.
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slowry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:35 PM
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4. UNFO n/t
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:36 PM
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7. !
:spray:
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:35 PM
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6. wonder if lots of pigeon poop would disrupt it?
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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:38 PM
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8. Exterior siren connected to an alarm system ?
Flux capacitor? An eye beam from war of the worlds?



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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:40 PM
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10. Could be a transmitter/receiver
for bank to bank communications that would be more secure than anything else. It could be part of the silent alarm system.

It's not a camera or listening device. It's not attractive enough to be sculpture and it's too small to be a rooftop planter.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:43 PM
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11. Maybe it's a dusk-to-dawn sensor for the bank exterior lights
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:11 PM
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20. I thought those were usually tiny........
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:46 PM
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12. An alarm? PD transmitter? It's probably some kind of communication device,
not too unusual for a bank, really, I suppose.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:51 PM
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13. Here's the deal: the round blue thing on the front aims downward
directly at the front door of my vet clinic. It's been there for about 18 months. It's driving us all crazy trying to figure it all out.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:54 PM
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14. Post this either in the science group
or even the pseudoscience/skeptics group. Several posters there are techie/engineering type people and probably would have a better idea what that is.....
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:55 PM
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15. Chemtrail detector.
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slowry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 03:58 PM
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17. Now we can't even get a clear picture of terrestrial objects? We're devolving! n/t
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:17 PM
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22. I've never
seen anything quite like it.
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:26 PM
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23. More than likely a line-of-sight radio antenna for data transmission
Edited on Sat Nov-10-07 05:00 PM by IDemo
By chance, does the blue side face in the general direction of a tall building(s) or a mountain range, where broadcast and other antennas may be situated?

http://www.fab-corp.com/home.php?cat=270
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 10:25 PM
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27. The blue side faces the front door of my office! The device is angled
downward from the roof of the bank. No way it is pointed toward mountains....To my left is a parking area (small) and then a Papa John's Pizza. To my right in my building is a print shop and then a dry cleaner.

Weird.
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:16 AM
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32. It doesn't necessarily have to face directly at another antenna
Even though it's a "directional" antenna, it will still transmit/receive signal. Satellite dishes are the same way. I'm sure that's what you're looking at. Here's another one:



I'm sure agent Mike isn't using it to listen in on your office. Of course, you realize that you're on the Watch List after taking pictures of a bank? ;-)




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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 01:30 PM
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39. Your theory seems to make the most sense, if that's the case.
But it's still creepy, lol. People are always asking "What's that THING pointed at your clinic??"

My new assistant got pretty spooked by it yesterday when I was taking the pics. You'd have to see it in person to get it - it really IS aimed straight at my front door, lol.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 06:08 AM
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34. Maybe it's an RFID reader
Maybe they're scanning the RFID chips in your patients as they go through the front door of your clinic.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 01:32 PM
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40. Very few of them have chips - I haven't hopped onto that bandwagon
yet because of the rat tumor studies. People can get them for Fluffy down at the pound a lot cheaper than I would be doing them anyway.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:36 PM
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24. You're supposed to throw a baseball at it


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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:37 PM
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25. Ask the editor at 2600 Magazine

2600 Magazine
P.O. Box 752
Middle Island, NY 11953
Telephone: 631-751-2600
Fax: 631-474-267

letters@2600.com

http://www.2600.com/magazine/
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 04:59 PM
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26. Have you gone into the bank and asked anyone as to what this is?
:shrug:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 10:31 PM
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28. I briefly considered that, but this being La La Land, I didn't think I
would get an intelligent answer from anybody inside......

You have to have lived in Los Angeles in recent years to understand this. Sigh. It's a city of morons. The other day my assistant pointed our our change pot for parking meter money to a client. The client wanted to put a quarter in the meter, and said we didn't have it and could we get her a quarter out of our till. My assistant checked the pot and it was full of dimes and nickels, and she handed the woman two dimes and a nickel and it completely flummoxed the woman. And she's a dentist.

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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:31 AM
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33. Who knows? The varied replies you get may be quite interesting
and maybe worth a DUzy ;)
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 11:10 PM
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29. It kinda looks like a loudspeaker
I dunno
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 01:22 PM
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36. It looks like it only from the front. From the side we can see that
the part with the blue circle is VERY thin, probably under 1". This part is connected to the white box by a stem in the center.

Not like any speaker or sound-producing device I've ever seen.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-10-07 11:12 PM
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30. it's probably an alarm siren--or---a death ray, probably a siren though.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 12:05 AM
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31. Could it be how they trigger the exploding dye packs?
It is constantly ending out a directional radio signal, "spraying" the front of the bank with a certain code on a certain frequency, and if an exploding dye-pack picks up that special signal, it explodes?

I bank at Wells Fargo, so now I'm kinda curious.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 01:24 PM
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37. The problem is, the "front" of the bank, the side that faces my office
is not accessible. The door is locked permanently. The entrance to the bank is on the back side at the parking lot......and there none of these devices anywhere else on the bank roof.......
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 02:45 PM
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41. Maybe it's time to "accidently" hit it with a brick and see what happens
Ask the guys who come to fix it "Hey, whatcha doin'?"
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Naturyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 06:10 AM
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35. Definitely Bigfoot.
Nah, just playing. It's probably some kind of surveillance device intended to gather security-related data.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 01:26 PM
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38. Probably. But why would it be pointed directly at my front door, and not
at anywhere on the bank property? I'm not planning on robbing Wells Fargo or even banking there. People tell me they suck, lol.
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Balbus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 02:48 PM
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42. a bank.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:30 PM
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43. Kicked in hopes of more input........
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:32 PM
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44. Pulsar cannon for potential zombie attacks.
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