Posted on 05/27/2017 6:16:54 AM PDT by bgill
Last night, we happened to notice at our neighbor's what looked like a surveillance camera red light pointed directly at our patio and bedroom window. If it is, what can be done?
Not crossing the property line, I waved at it and within 5 minutes the red light disappeared. Now, it could have been some weird coincidence and the red light could have been a strange reflection from their outside light on one of the pieces of glass though the "stained glass look" (whatever it is made of) is black. During the day, it occasionally shines a sun spot onto our living room wall.
We aren't friendly so I can't just pop in for a visit to take a closer look. Fifteen years ago, the LEO was investigating him over a child molestation and even today his grandkids don't visit when he's there. He doesn't know we know and he's not on the sex offender registry so maybe it was never proven. This is one of his and his wife's vacation houses so they aren't here much but that doesn't mean surveillance can't be there 24/7/365.
Over the past couple years, his wifi has been on continuously so I had suspected he had cameras.
This morning, in the daylight, I can't tell if it's a camera or what. If it is, short of punching the guy and yanking it down, what can be done?
A pellet gun comes to mind...
You could put a sign in your window that reads something like: “Move your camera elsewhere.”
When the red light comes on aim a bright light at the camera.
Build a wall.
Pull your window shades down, preferably with a mean comment on them facing the camera.
Look at it with a telescope to see what it is.
Ask him if that is a camera.
It’s not unusual to have surveillance cameras outside of homes, especially vacation homes.
Put a spotlight on your house pointed directly at it.
Buy the most powerful green laser you can find.
http://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton
Carefully aim it directly at the camera and keep it there.
We talked to a military computer friend about borrowing his laser but he says it isn’t strong enough to destroy the components.
I like that one.
I’d get a decent laser and let that sensor get a hole burned in it. But there could be legal things involved.
My jerk neighbor does his spying the old fashioned way. He looks down from a second story window through the blinds.
All he can see on my side is the carport.
I had a knock off based on that laser
It was really good. The batteries were junk.
I have to consider the safety of our dogs and cats. Our cats always wander in their yard. When the wind blows stuff over, they already accuse me of it.
I’ve got cameras up around my house. I don’t think I have any pointed at the neighbors, except for the one that points down the driveway can see the house across the street.
Privacy fence.
And then there’s the song...
“my brother married an ugly girl, he thinks he has it made.
when he makes love to his ugly girl the neighbor pulls his shade”
Those led lights are quite bright. It's probably for his own home security, just trying to protect his own property.
Sounds like a piece of advice from Sheldon Cooper (of "The Big Bang Theory"):
"I always use a small mirror mounted on a stick to determine who is sitting in the bathroom stall next to mine. After all, there are all kinds of weirdos in the world!"
And I always tape over the little red light when I am "monitoring" my neighbors.
Regards,
Subsonics.
“When the red light comes on aim a bright light at the camera.”
A green laser works wonders.
I don’t open the bedroom curtains but sometimes the cats open them. Our living room curtains are always open for the view (that’s why we live here) and for the breeze because we try not to use the a/c. It’s also where my computer desk is. I don’t know how much a camera could see in to the living room but their patio ornament sometimes shines a sun spot on the wall.
If he’s such a putz as to put up one camera, then he’s enough of a putz to put up a dozen more we don’t know about.
The last time we got the neighbors to move, we got a stinky goat. The stink was too much for us so don’t want to go that route again.
A cheap one with a large beam will probably wash out the pictures that are being taken. Video would probably be mostly the color of the laser.
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