[shawn_w]

So you can do it without your image being captured by the camera?

[stavros]

The camera doesn't have a 360 field of vision, besides COVID masks aren't uncommon now.

[bigiain]

Where I am (Sydney Australia) we have fixed speed cameras that automatically create speeding fines to drivers going too fast (well, technically the registered owner of the vehicle via ANPR).

They eventually had to equip pretty much every speed camera with a speed camera camera, usually on a much higher pole to make vandalism more difficult.

[dsl]

When Flock helps you lay out camera placements they make sure camera pairs are facing each other.

[nozzlegear]

If you want to hit the lens with the paintball gun, wouldn't you need to be in its field of vision?

[dyauspitr]

Drones with a paintball gun attached?

Realistically that’s going to attract a lot of negative attention.

[BuyMyBitcoins]

The use of a drone also ups the ante from a prosecutor’s perspective. Charging a vandal caught with a paintbrush and a ladder is nothing out of the ordinary. A routine misdemeanor.

Someone who has the wherewithal to jerry rig a paintball gun to a drone is someone scary. Plus, any officer who witnesses such a drone is almost certainly going to misidentify the paintball gun as an actual gun. I can imagine the operator would be charged with several felonies.

[cucumber3732842]

Just use the drone to spray something on the camera that will etch the glass or destroy the plastic beyond repair.