Originally Posted by
Tummy
I have several webcams monitoring the exterior and some interior rooms in my house. We run Vitamin D software from
http://www.vitamindinc.com/ that emails me whenever there is activity based on rules I setup. It saves the video files to a wireless NAS that I hid in my ceiling so if something happens I can at least review it later. My co-workers call me paranoid.
Our next door neighbor was robbed maybe 7 months ago. The crooks opened their garage door and pulled the van right in. Nobody was home except the dog,
a german shepherd, which they beat up with a baseball bat.
Oh now THAT's just heinous! Take the stuff you want, but don't hurt the dog, you creeps! Sheesh. I hope those creeps get what they deserve for doing that to the dog.
--A car break-in story that turned out better than anyone in my neighborhood expected. Several years ago, a neighbor's kid (about 18 at the time) had his car broken into while parked in our development one night. He called the local police and asked them to come out and complete a report. They balked. The kid insisted, so the cops begrudgingly came out, took a report, dusted for fingerprints, and that was that. A year or two later, they busted a guy for something and when they took his prints and ran them through the system, his prints came up as a match for the ones taken at the scene of the neighbor kid's car break in, and they tagged the guy for THAT as well as whatever the current crime was.
I was very impressed that the neighbor kid stuck to his guns and insisted that the cops come out when they initially tried to blow him off.