Best Hallowe Costume Flock Camera Reaper Custome

Our Take

Credit where it's due: CameraSHY's "Flock Reaper" costume is a genuinely funny bit of protest art. Wrapping the Grim Reaper's iconography around a surveillance camera isn't subtle, but it doesn't need to be — it captures exactly how a lot of Americans feel when they clock one of these solar-powered poles watching their commute. Humor is a legitimate way to make a creeping, boring-sounding technology feel as unsettling as it actually is.

Because the unsettling part is real. Flock's ALPR network doesn't just snap a photo of your plate — it logs your car's make, color, and travel patterns, stitches them into a searchable history, and shares that data across a growing web of police departments and private subscribers, often with little public oversight. A costume gets a laugh at a party; the actual cameras are quietly building location profiles on everyone who drives past them, no warrant required.

If this video makes you want to know whether one of these things is perched near your house or your kid's school, check our camera map to see what's already deployed nearby, and head to take action for concrete steps — from public records requests to city council pushback — to push back on unchecked ALPR expansion in your town.