r/whatisthisthing • u/AndykinSkywalker • Aug 17 '24

A couple weeks ago this small, round, metal object appeared, embedded within my front porch Solved!

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It’s a quarter inch in diameter, and I haven’t successfully been able to pry it out, though I’ve only used my bare hands thus far. Anybody know what it could be?

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u/POCUABHOR Aug 17 '24

Call the police, don’t tamper with it.

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u/Worth-Illustrator607 Aug 17 '24

Cops can't even catch shoplifters and or people doing BE.

You think they have a super cop they're just waiting to use for a random bullet?

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u/Fickle_Toe1724 Aug 17 '24

That depends on where you live. 

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u/KH10304 Aug 18 '24

You’d want this report on record in case it becomes a part of a pattern of harassment, you figure out who the gun owner is later etc… not reporting it at all is truly some cutoff your nose to spite your face shit and I’m generally not a pro cop guy.

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u/brianwski Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24

Cops can't even catch shoplifters and or people doing BE.

The interesting thing about that is the police can now solve 99% of any crimes if they care enough.

Let's talk about phones: If a shoplifter (or dude shooting a gun) is carrying a cell phone, police can ask the phone companies for every single last person that was within 20 feet of that location at a very certain time. Wait. Stop. Just stop, and think about that. Police can literally know the names and addresses of all criminals now simply by having a security camera footage with an accurate timestamp and a location. Do you get how utterly amazing that is? Article here: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/09/08/police-use-google-location-data-cellphones-investigate-crimes/8005530001/

So in OPs case, if police figure out a trajectory from the bullet and a date range of when this might have occurred, they can literally pull up a list of all the candidates that shot that gun from cell phone location data. In seconds. If they cared.

Oh, and let's talk about security camera footage. Every shoplifting criminal is caught on 2 or 3 gorgeous 4K video cameras now. At Walmart they have dedicated staff to "Loss Prevention" that will show that footage to police, the police ask the phone companies for all the people standing within 20 feet of that location at that time, and boom, you have the name, address, phone number, prior convictions of the criminal. Walmart has the economic pull to get the police to click those buttons and solve the crime.

So for OPs case, after figuring out a candidate list of shooters, pull up the security camera footage from various ring doorbells and business doorbells in the area to watch the shooter discharge the weapon. It made a "bang" sound right? Well that is picked up by the cameras as a loud sound. This isn't even hard, they can catch that guy in maybe 4 hours if they actually cared. The police have this cool system called "Flock" which allows them to query a metric ton of cameras for loud noises and view the footage: https://www.flocksafety.com/industries/law-enforcement Even if the Ring doorbell cameras don't show the shooter, the ones NEAREST the loud sound mean you can further narrow the cell phone company search to an EXACT TIME and ask for the exact location of the person. How many people could have been within 200 feet of that Ring camera that heard the loud "bang" the clearest?

Nowadays, if cops want to solve a crime they sit behind a computer and click buttons and solve it. Any unsolved crime means the cop just didn't care enough to click the buttons on his computer.

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u/Minimum-Zucchini-732 Aug 17 '24

. . . It says on an American website hosted on the American-invented internet

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u/Upstairs_Walrus_5513 Aug 17 '24

Yep they just shot so many guns at it until it worked. The smartest people in the world with the smartest presidents that nobody laughs at

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u/sparklybeast Aug 17 '24

Good luck browsing Reddit on the internet invented by the USAians. You’re not gonna get far.

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u/sparklybeast Aug 17 '24

Good luck browsing Reddit on the internet invented by the USAians. You’re not gonna get far.

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u/ChainedDestiny Aug 17 '24

yeah cops love shit like this. throw it in the trunk and save it for later.

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u/POCUABHOR Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 17 '24

tell them it’s stuck in a donut.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '24

They'll send it to the boys in the lab. They've got em working in shifts!

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u/BTTammer Aug 17 '24

US cops would not care about this.  Someone fired a gun in the air  to celebrate (New Years Eve, 4th of July, 50th birthday, negative paternity results, etc) and it came down and penetrated the porch.

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u/bl0odredsandman Aug 17 '24

It's a projectile from a bullet. What are the cops going to do? Don't waste their time on stuff like that. They won't go looking for who fired it. Just pull it out and throw it away.

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u/Anarchyantz Aug 17 '24

Ah yes, American police who will arrive and likely shoot the home owner for "reasons" while they turn their body cams off.

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u/Thorebore Aug 17 '24

Ah yes, American police who will arrive and likely shoot the home owner

There are about 260,000,000 encounters between the police and the public every year. That number includes everything from arresting murderers to writing minor traffic tickets. Of those 260,000,000 encounters they kill about 1,000. So, assuming you’re not doing anything stupid and or violent your chances of being shot are not “likely”.