CES020
New Member
Guess the kid laughed when the police said they have camera footage of them.... glad we had the camera's.
A few years ago, I had bad things happening around my house. Every day when I went home, it would be 10-15 punks in the street in front of my house. They used my mailbox as a trashcan. I couldn't do much because they were there all day and night and they knew my every move. I finally snapped one night when I got home, called the police and they came out. He went across the street and came back and said "I told them you had a video camera so you might want to get one".
I got one, installed it, and not too long later, I came home and my mailbox was sitting on the ground with a caved in side.
I went inside, watched the video tape and sure enough, clear as a bell, in the middle of the day, it had them. I called the police, they came and watched it, and went across the street and explained to them that he had seen the tape and he identified the person that had done it (their kid). The Mom swore up and down her kid didn't do it. The officer assured her that he had seen the tape and it was her kid. She still denied it. She asked to see the video and I refused. I told them I had no intention of letting them into my house so they could see exactly where all my cameras were located as well as seeing anything of value they might decide they want when I'm not home.
The officer agreed with me, wrote them tickets, and moved on. For the next 3 years I had punks, drug dealers, and thugs in front of my house, but not one of them ever stepped out of line on my property again.
Finally they grew up, got old enough to stay locked up and away they went, along with all my troubles.
There's some really cool camera stuff out there now. Camera systems that aren't really expensive and they'll text you when they detect motion, along with the ability to watch remotely too. There's a really nice system out there that starts at $299 for one camera and the system.