“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board.
Photos of the destroyed mobile camera towers — the type with flashing blue lights you see in parking lots — show the group succeeded not just at vandalizing the towers but also at smashing this summer’s known record for most towers destroyed in a single night.
“We found that (it) took us less than 30 seconds to climb the tower and smash all of the cameras, destroy the solar panels and write a message, and slash the tires of the trailer,” the anonymous post continued. “We got our inspiration for climbing the tower from another communique.”…