A strange 'recording device' has mysteriously appeared on a street lamppost. Local residents have been left baffled by the device which has a microphone attached to it.
The weird piece of tech was recently spotted on a quiet street in Caerphilly, Wales. Wales Online reports that residents of Gwesty Close in Croespenmaen, Crumlin came across the object on Monday afternoon.
Resident Mark Swain says the object was "bizarre" and that council workers told him it was nothing to do with the local authority before removing it this morning. He said: "I work in security at the council and I have never seen anything like it.
"I rang the highways department up and they said they don't know what it is. They came here this morning (Tuesday) and said it is obviously recording something.
"They said it was an invasion of privacy and that they would remove it if the environmental health department didn't know about it. It just doesn't make sense.
"We're not on a main road, this is a small, quiet rural close with just a few cars coming in and out. We have all been talking about it in a group chat and nobody can work out what it is being used for."
Mark claims that he noticed a man in a white shirt erecting the device at about 2pm on Monday. He says he quizzed neighbours on if they knew what it is, but nobody had any clue.
The 51-year-old describes the object's appearance as looking like a two-foot squared plastic suitcase with a badminton shuttlecock-shaped microphone coming out of it. He says that at around 11am on February 14, highways came to the street and removed the object.
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