Don't know where else to post this question......(dialup warning - pics)

[kestrel91316]

What the hell is this thing???

[Bluebear]

1. A camera to catch a getaway car's license plate in case of robbery?

[kestrel91316]

3. It's definitely not a camera. The front part of it with the blue circle

is on a separate flat piece that is linked to the white box with a connecter piece. It is pointed at the front door of a business.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. subliminal message transmitter.

"Go Shopping" "Buy, buy, buy" "you love debt" "stuff will make you happy"

[kestrel91316]

5. This is actually a serious question for the tech types.

I want to know what it is. I have a personal interest in it.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. okay, my serious guess...

some type of scientific monitoring device put up by the city/other. I spent a few years selling security systems, and I don't recognize it.

weather sensor?
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v4.13/nlanr_weather.html

[kestrel91316]

16. Thanks, could be. Bad link, so I can't see what you are referring to.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

18. fixed.

[kestrel91316]

19. There's no anemometer or windvane. Just the flat square with the

round disc on it, connected to a white painted metal box that is also kind of flat, with a black knob(?) for tweaking the direction it points (?) and a cable going down to the roof, and it's all on an aluminum tripod.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. I'm also thinking traffic monitoring...

google images is finding lots of 'similar' looking devices, but nothing exactly the same.

[slowry]

4. UNFO n/t

[helderheid]

7. !

[rodeodance]

6. wonder if lots of pigeon poop would disrupt it?

[doublethink]

8. Exterior siren connected to an alarm system ?

Flux capacitor? An eye beam from war of the worlds?

[Warpy]

10. Could be a transmitter/receiver

for bank to bank communications that would be more secure than anything else. It could be part of the silent alarm system.

It's not a camera or listening device. It's not attractive enough to be sculpture and it's too small to be a rooftop planter.

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Maybe it's a dusk-to-dawn sensor for the bank exterior lights

[kestrel91316]

20. I thought those were usually tiny........

[blondeatlast]

12. An alarm? PD transmitter? It's probably some kind of communication device,

not too unusual for a bank, really, I suppose.

[kestrel91316]

13. Here's the deal: the round blue thing on the front aims downward

directly at the front door of my vet clinic. It's been there for about 18 months. It's driving us all crazy trying to figure it all out.

[TZ]

14. Post this either in the science group

or even the pseudoscience/skeptics group. Several posters there are techie/engineering type people and probably would have a better idea what that is.....

[Blue-Jay]

15. Chemtrail detector.

[slowry]

17. Now we can't even get a clear picture of terrestrial objects? We're devolving! n/t

[Mojorabbit]

22. I've never

seen anything quite like it.

[IDemo]

23. More than likely a line-of-sight radio antenna for data transmission

By chance, does the blue side face in the general direction of a tall building(s) or a mountain range, where broadcast and other antennas may be situated?

http://www.fab-corp.com/home.php?cat=270

[kestrel91316]

27. The blue side faces the front door of my office! The device is angled

downward from the roof of the bank. No way it is pointed toward mountains....To my left is a parking area (small) and then a Papa John's Pizza. To my right in my building is a print shop and then a dry cleaner.

Weird.

[IDemo]

32. It doesn't necessarily have to face directly at another antenna

Even though it's a "directional" antenna, it will still transmit/receive signal. Satellite dishes are the same way. I'm sure that's what you're looking at. Here's another one:



I'm sure agent Mike isn't using it to listen in on your office. Of course, you realize that you're on the Watch List after taking pictures of a bank?

[kestrel91316]

39. Your theory seems to make the most sense, if that's the case.

But it's still creepy, lol. People are always asking "What's that THING pointed at your clinic??"

My new assistant got pretty spooked by it yesterday when I was taking the pics. You'd have to see it in person to get it - it really IS aimed straight at my front door, lol.

[bananas]

34. Maybe it's an RFID reader

Maybe they're scanning the RFID chips in your patients as they go through the front door of your clinic.

[kestrel91316]

40. Very few of them have chips - I haven't hopped onto that bandwagon

yet because of the rat tumor studies. People can get them for Fluffy down at the pound a lot cheaper than I would be doing them anyway.

[Ian David]

24. You're supposed to throw a baseball at it

[Ian David]

25. Ask the editor at 2600 Magazine

2600 Magazine
P.O. Box 752
Middle Island, NY 11953
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[e-mail]

http://www.2600.com/magazine/

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Have you gone into the bank and asked anyone as to what this is?

[kestrel91316]

28. I briefly considered that, but this being La La Land, I didn't think I

would get an intelligent answer from anybody inside......

You have to have lived in Los Angeles in recent years to understand this. Sigh. It's a city of morons. The other day my assistant pointed our our change pot for parking meter money to a client. The client wanted to put a quarter in the meter, and said we didn't have it and could we get her a quarter out of our till. My assistant checked the pot and it was full of dimes and nickels, and she handed the woman two dimes and a nickel and it completely flummoxed the woman. And she's a dentist.

[Whoa_Nelly]

33. Who knows? The varied replies you get may be quite interesting

and maybe worth a DUzy

[blogslut]

29. It kinda looks like a loudspeaker

I dunno

[kestrel91316]

36. It looks like it only from the front. From the side we can see that

the part with the blue circle is VERY thin, probably under 1". This part is connected to the white box by a stem in the center.

Not like any speaker or sound-producing device I've ever seen.

[AlCzervik]

30. it's probably an alarm siren--or---a death ray, probably a siren though.

[krispos42]

31. Could it be how they trigger the exploding dye packs?

It is constantly ending out a directional radio signal, "spraying" the front of the bank with a certain code on a certain frequency, and if an exploding dye-pack picks up that special signal, it explodes?

I bank at Wells Fargo, so now I'm kinda curious.

[kestrel91316]

37. The problem is, the "front" of the bank, the side that faces my office

is not accessible. The door is locked permanently. The entrance to the bank is on the back side at the parking lot......and there none of these devices anywhere else on the bank roof.......

[krispos42]

41. Maybe it's time to "accidently" hit it with a brick and see what happens

Ask the guys who come to fix it "Hey, whatcha doin'?"

[Naturyl]

35. Definitely Bigfoot.

Nah, just playing. It's probably some kind of surveillance device intended to gather security-related data.

[kestrel91316]

38. Probably. But why would it be pointed directly at my front door, and not

at anywhere on the bank property? I'm not planning on robbing Wells Fargo or even banking there. People tell me they suck, lol.

[Balbus]

42. a bank.

[kestrel91316]

43. Kicked in hopes of more input........

[flvegan]

44. Pulsar cannon for potential zombie attacks.