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Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by bombcar on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:50AM (#45139941)
If you've been to the rural USA you'd know it's just high-trust (and the middle of nowhere). They're pretty common for low-value things like corn and farm produce; but I've seen syrup and honey, too.

There might be a camera, but what would you do with the result besides some vigilante frontier justice? No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup.

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Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by sometimes_all on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:29AM (#45166246)
We once went to Florida and saw some open orange farms. We wanted to buy some, but there was nobody in sight - we got very confused until we saw a box which said "$X a bag"; there was a sack of bags nearby. My mind was blown.
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Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by gentooflux on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:30AM (#45166251)
That's a matter of scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_H...
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Re:Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appli... by antonvs on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:32AM (#45166626)
> No cop anywhere but daytime children's TV is going to investigate the Case of the Stolen Syrup.

Or Japan apparently, according to some of the comments in this thread.

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