So… in our neighborhood, over the 4 years we’ve lived here, it’s been a pattern that people will ring doorbells late at night to “case” a house, to see who’s a light sleeper, who has barking dogs, who’s home, etc., and then within a few days they will break in. This has been going on again and one of our neighbor’s got broken into (their cars) and down the street, last week, on the same night that this bell-ringing was going on, a house was found with it’s door wide open and the owners were out of town. The doorbell ringers have been targeting our house and so we put up a few cameras. Well last night we got them on video. (image one || image two)
What kills me is that we had THREE cameras pointing out the front windows and the guy NEVER EVEN LOOKED! He has no idea he was caught on tape! Dumb ass!
We also had the sheriff’s dept. come out and they took the still photos and said they’d come back for the video if anything happened. I also posted to the website for our neighborhood hoping the kid’s parents would see it (I think he looks like a teenager) or that someone who knows who he is will email me.
Also we got a security system put in today. It’s really great, custom features, I’m happy w/ it.
I have a plan to do a stake-out out front. Sit in my car w/ the tinted windows w/ my night-vision camcorder and see what theses guys are really doing. M noticed on the video that guy #2 seemed to do a hand-signal to someone down the street, then shortly after a minivan went by. I did a test tonight and sat in my car when M came home from getting takeout at the pizza place and he never saw me. Since all the schools are closed ’till at least Monday (power is out all over the place from the hurricane), every night lately has been like a friday night. Ours is one of the few neighborhoods that has power, so everyone is having friends over who don’t have power. The streets are filled w/ people taking walks since we’re having January-cool weather and everyone has company over. Because of all this I expect these guys to come back. I want to see if they get in or out of a minivan, if there are others, if they are bothering other homes or just us, and ALSO if he goes up to our door, then on his way back from the doorstep I’m going to hit the panic button on my car’s key fob just to give him a startle. That’ll also make M come out. Meanwhile, all of it on tape. Little balless fucker.
I told the cop who came last night an idea my neighbor had; Print out the guy’s picture and hang it on the doorbell so that he knows we have his face. I wasn’t sure if this would instigate a war w/ this guy or if it was a good idea. The cop smiled and said it was a great idea. So I hung one on the doorbell and one inside the window by the door.
We had my sony handycam hc-30 on a tiny tripod on the floor in the window, that’s what caught them. We also had a motion-detect night-vision camera up high in the same window, not recording. We ALSO had the pencam in the living room window from when we set it up as a Hurricane Cam. THREE and the guy never noticed! Frankly, he looks like a dumb redneck to me, but that’s just my personal opinion.
And so what if he looks like “just a teenager”.? Teenagers can break into houses and steal cars. The cop said he’d like to talk to him about trespassing, harassment, breaking the post-hurricane 9pm curfew, and ask him a few questions, as they say, about recent crimes in our neighborhood. I also mentioned this on the website along w/ his picture. I hope he or his parents find out and shit a gold brick.
