• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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      1 hour ago

      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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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        4 hours ago

        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

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            1 hour ago

            Craft stores sell glad 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.

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              56 minutes ago

              Contain a small amount and seal it inside a glass ball or cylinder … use a slingshot to throw it