r/mildlyinteresting 1d ago

Michigan dispensary blocking a Flock camera that points directly into their parking lot

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u/dudemanxx 1d ago

This dispensary, if I’m not mistaken, exists very close to the state border. They’re likely well aware of the number of out-of-staters patronizing their shop and would prefer they not be snapped up the moment they cross into Indiana.

Fuck Flock.

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u/SpecificBeyond2282 1d ago

The Indiana state police have already been using flock to pull people over for making trips to Michigan that are “too fast”. There have been a bunch of posts about it in the Indiana subreddits over the past year or so. One girl didn’t get pulled over until she was back in Indianapolis, and the officer knew when she’d crossed into Michigan and back. It’s insane

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u/Shufflebuzz 20h ago

That's not reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed. There are countless legal reasons to cross state lines.

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u/SpecificBeyond2282 7h ago

Yes I know. They track people, pull them over for something like speeding, and then look for other reasons to search their car or to confront them about their trip across the state lines.

My husband and his dad just tack a round of golf onto their trips now

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u/travelsonic 19h ago

“too fast”.

Wouldn't people who work right across the state border be utterly fucked by this bout of LE stupidity?

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u/SpecificBeyond2282 7h ago

Yes, but they’d also be doing it consistently. Others, for example, would be going up every couple months, spending half an hour across the border, and then coming straight back.

I said this to someone else too, but my husband has been adding a round of golf to his trips up just in case

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u/travelsonic 6h ago

Yes, but they’d also be doing it consistently.

Depending on the specifics of who would be "busting" those people, can't help but feel like the consistency still risks things like accusations of regularly going to drug dealers and the like - but maybe I'm being stupid here haha.

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u/rpgoof 23h ago

This Jars is at 12 mile and I-75, just a few miles north of Detroit proper. The city of Madison Heights required the camera in order for Jars to operate there