this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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Nothing that a can of paint or a bucket of tar couldn't fix.
Throw and run ... and the local department would have to spend an hour locating the vehicle to get people to it, then a few hours more towing it back, then days more to clean it up.
Cleanup is absolutely a time burn, but let's also be real; they'll go straight to it via GPS tracking and unless you get the windshield real good, someone will just get in and manual drive it back to the station.
True .... but it might be time to figure out a liquid combination that stains or is slightly corrosive. You don't need to melt things, just corrosive enough to etch, mar or deform glass or plastics of sensor lenses.
You clean everything up but realize that the liquid has permanently damaged an imaging lens cover, either with deep stains or corrosion.
Then you replace it but then it costs money and time.
And you do it over and over again
Hydrofluoric acid is really good at etching glass.
But it's also really good at eating your bones.
Craft stores sell glass(*) etching cream that will absolutely do this (to the types of glass I've used it on). Unless there is some super specific chemistry to windshield glass, a jar of that should work.
Edit: spelling
Contain a small amount and seal it inside a glass ball or cylinder .... use a slingshot to throw it
I was thinking paintballs ;)
Termite is pretty easy to make and should do the...ok, pretty much every job
In my experience, they might not clean their own vehicles. They get people serving community service hours for petty crimes to do it for them.
Or so I'm told.
We had to to clean and detail courthouse workers' (judges, DA, etc) personal vehicles for community service as children.
I know for a fact one of the cities in my area uses the people who are in the city jail for unpaid fines. They get $50 off their fine... by doing all the labor of the jail, like washing the floor, cooking the food, and yes, washing the cop cars.
Indentured servitude. Nice!
Got to love how the 13th amendment made an exception for prisoners.
Yeah, I think they get away with it because it's voluntary, and (more importantly) no one (with power) cares about prisoners. If you had to sit in jail for six days, but could get out in four by doing the extra work, it might be worth it. It also gets you out of the cells, I guess.
It had a drone attached to it, that would follow you and record you as you run
Balloon or multiple balloons attached to 80lbs fishing line
or conversely, a small hex nut tied to the end of a line fed by a spool of 80lbs fishing line with about 40 feet of line ... then use a slingshot aimed at the drone ... launch several lines until one gets caught
Nothing a fan of silly string won't fix.
Also, there's wasp and hornet killer cans that shoot 30+feet. Likely enough sticky liquid in there to bring down a little drone.
The right fire extinguisher will make a cloud of visibility cover....
Plenty of low-tech "solutions".
You're just wasting tax payer dollars, unfortunately
No. You're spending tax payer dollars to send a message that the tax payers didn't want their dollars spent on unmanned police surveillance.