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Oh, I saw one of those last week! Thought I’d wandered into a building site by accident
>*If anyone is suspected of stealing, the pod will blare out a siren noise at 120 decibels – roughly as loud as a jackhammer.*
Nope – fuck off.
As soon as that happens I’ll be putting the food down and shopping elsewhere.
Just pay ***actual staff*** to do this stuff. This is ridiculous.
It’s wasn’t cheap to develop and produce and will require maintenance. Probably its not pennies they are loosing to shoplifters.
120dB at that close of a range is a risk to your hearing, so if one of these goes off near you, that’s a huge health risk
I’m all for stopping people being twunts in shops, but this is ridiculous, you’re gonna get some kid fucking about with it setting it off and going deaf
I saw one of these the other day and didn’t give it too much thought.
But now that I know it will start blaring a siren if it detects suspected shoplifting, I suddenly have the urge to find a way of generating a false positive.
What totally innocent act could be mistaken for shoplifting?
At 110db, hearing damage can be caused in 2 minutes.
At 120db – the stated volume of that machine – damage is caused damn near instantly and you will experience pain.
If the news article got that accurately, then these machines are a danger to anybody nearby and will rapidly become a danger to anybody in the store after a minute or two. Fucking mad idea.
FYI.
120db is in the range of immediate, permanent hearing damage/loss.
This system would be fine raised up on the side of a building.
For an indoor system where people are potentially going to be stood right next to it? NOPE. HARD NOPE. That’s a court case waiting to happen.
If this went off when I’m down the aisle getting beer, I’m going to start smashing bottles and throwing bottles at it in a claim of self defence.
120db is the same as lightning hitting right next to you
It is permanent hearing damage to anybody standing next to it
Lol id pick stuff up and walk around to fuck with it.
Even if it was 90 decibels indoors that’s enough to upset me being autistic, but what about children and the elderly too? Imagine that thing going off by a child walking past it, would probably mentally scar them
Looks just about the same size as a toddler and is bound to be of interest to a small child so when the 120dB alarm goes off because the child starts playing with the thing you end up with a small child who is now deaf for the rest of their life which I imagine is going to result in a substantial damages payout.
I have no real issue with the idea of a camera unit, the supermarkets are filled with cameras already. I would have thought it would make more sense for the device to speak a warning reminding people to pay at a volume that isn’t going to cause permanent hearing damage.
How exactly do these “detect” a shoplifter? Is it just a chest height CCTV?
Saw a handful of them in the local Asda and was curious what they were, their ones are purple.
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Hope it doesn’t have a “glitch”, like in Robocop.
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Doof doof doof doof doof
Oh, I saw one of those last week! Thought I’d wandered into a building site by accident
>*If anyone is suspected of stealing, the pod will blare out a siren noise at 120 decibels – roughly as loud as a jackhammer.*
Nope – fuck off.
As soon as that happens I’ll be putting the food down and shopping elsewhere.
Just pay ***actual staff*** to do this stuff. This is ridiculous.
It’s wasn’t cheap to develop and produce and will require maintenance. Probably its not pennies they are loosing to shoplifters.
120dB at that close of a range is a risk to your hearing, so if one of these goes off near you, that’s a huge health risk
I’m all for stopping people being twunts in shops, but this is ridiculous, you’re gonna get some kid fucking about with it setting it off and going deaf
I saw one of these the other day and didn’t give it too much thought.
But now that I know it will start blaring a siren if it detects suspected shoplifting, I suddenly have the urge to find a way of generating a false positive.
What totally innocent act could be mistaken for shoplifting?
At 110db, hearing damage can be caused in 2 minutes.
At 120db – the stated volume of that machine – damage is caused damn near instantly and you will experience pain.
If the news article got that accurately, then these machines are a danger to anybody nearby and will rapidly become a danger to anybody in the store after a minute or two. Fucking mad idea.
FYI.
120db is in the range of immediate, permanent hearing damage/loss.
This system would be fine raised up on the side of a building.
For an indoor system where people are potentially going to be stood right next to it? NOPE. HARD NOPE. That’s a court case waiting to happen.
If this went off when I’m down the aisle getting beer, I’m going to start smashing bottles and throwing bottles at it in a claim of self defence.
120db is the same as lightning hitting right next to you
It is permanent hearing damage to anybody standing next to it
Lol id pick stuff up and walk around to fuck with it.
Even if it was 90 decibels indoors that’s enough to upset me being autistic, but what about children and the elderly too? Imagine that thing going off by a child walking past it, would probably mentally scar them
Looks just about the same size as a toddler and is bound to be of interest to a small child so when the 120dB alarm goes off because the child starts playing with the thing you end up with a small child who is now deaf for the rest of their life which I imagine is going to result in a substantial damages payout.
I have no real issue with the idea of a camera unit, the supermarkets are filled with cameras already. I would have thought it would make more sense for the device to speak a warning reminding people to pay at a volume that isn’t going to cause permanent hearing damage.
How exactly do these “detect” a shoplifter? Is it just a chest height CCTV?
Saw a handful of them in the local Asda and was curious what they were, their ones are purple.