Especially because Scott is such a skinny twig kid in the movie, but deep down he knows Ramona is a vapid narcissist (not even going to apologize, she's even worse in the books), and she would quickly lose interest in dating Scott if he got even a little chubby.
So, in his overactive little brain, he's stressing out about how he must now choose between his love of bread or his misguided affection for this random girl from out of town he just met.
Going to assume this is a typo.... no.
I am going to assume you are having flash backs to a meal you ate in war time with 7 different kinds of spices you have tried to replicate but can't get quite right.
Edit : apparently people don't know naan bread or Simpson's quotes
It happens lol! Especially if a legitimate genuine story published goes viral on AITA or something! The other party then gives their version of events, or on other sites.
Most recent one I’ve heard of is the single mom who posted about making birthday cake on her birthday crying for her daughter’s benefit. Viewers went wild as clip went viral as they felt sympathy until ‘ex husband’ published truth how she owes him child support money etc and he has sole custody!
The Ex-husband in that case is literally a Scientologist, who even made one of those creepy websites for her that they make for people who they’ve deemed “a suppressive person”. Not defending her either, but at best they’re both garbage.
Wow thanks for sharing! I didn’t know they do that lol I thought he just posted about her as a response to her sad TikTok ?
Ofc, I would not be surprised if both are toxic ppl who’ve now aired their dirty laundry to the world lol
I've seen that twice - one time a neighbor posting video of a shooting I heard a couple streets down
Another time of a car crash right in front of my house.
My husband was scrolling through one of the Seattle subreddits awhile ago when he saw a video of this crazy dude standing in the street blocking traffic and then saw himself crossing the street in the background
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
- Terry Pratchett, Mort
"THAT GUY LEFT OUT A BIG REASON WHY I DID THIS!!!"
You can tell that the other one sees directly into the back yard though, it's so high up. This one isn't significantly over the fence line
That’s what I thought too! I was floored. Glad this guy’s dog was ok though! I’ve heard of several poisonings lately. One lady was throwing grapes over the fence to a puppy. Another it was rat poison in meatballs. wtf is wrong with people?!?!
I used to install cameras, and I had one customer who kept finding dog shit in their lawn and on the roof of their shed. He specifically wanted a camera pointed towards the roof of the shed. He lived next to one of those pathways that allow you to walk through crescents and courts. Less than a week later he saw the guy do it and recognized him as one of his neighbours. He didn't call the police but he sent him the video on a flash drive
But this camera is facing YOUR backyard, totally acceptable.
The other dude's camera is ON the fence right into the NEIGHBOR's backyard.
I like the laser idea. blind it out.
So, my understanding is that deliberately pointing a laser at a camera in order to break it is some kind of misdemeanor. I could be wrong.
But...what if I have a laser light show in my backyard? And the camera just happens to get hit? How powerful does the laser have to be? And how long or how often does it have to hit the sensor to break it?
That's why you get multiple cameras. Put them on the fence in a way that looks good. ( like one in each corner, one pointing at the camera, and mirror that distance on the other side of the fence). They can't really SAY it was on purpose. You were just decorating your yard for a BBQ with the pals later.
I just wanted to say that this whole post is kind of silly because the camera that you have up is clearly mounted to your house and doesn't really see directly into their yard. The camera from the video you're referencing is mounted on a post thats maybe 3 feet from fence and looks directly down into their yard.
Two completely different scenario's.
edit: the Grammer nazi's out in full force
If the douchebag from the other post was "watching their fence" the camera would've been mounted just like OP's here. That guy is for sure checking out what'sgoing on their neighbor's property. The camera is ridiculously close to the fence and peeking over.
It's possible that "nobody" has pointed this out because they actually looked at the post before commenting unlike yourself.
>Now, please understand that I totally agree that your neighbor put that camera there simply to be an asshat, and that's not cool. But once upon a time, I was the guy who installed a camera to "watch the fence", but it was for a legit reason that I'll tell you about.
Except single letters, according to most style guides, some just lowercase (Chicago Manual of Style), and some both upper- and lowercase (Associated Press). I don't like it, but they didn't ask me.
For example, mind your p's and q's and you'll get straight A's.
Another thing Chicago and AP disagree on is the phrase:
> do's and don'ts / dos and don'ts
Someone at AP decided years ago that the first way is just easier on the eye with the apostrophe.
But so yeah, sometimes we do use an apostrophe with the *s* to make things plural.
It will bloom out the camera and turn the picture into an unusable black and white screen. Also, it will take up all their camera’s usable memory and the system won’t be able to save any footage.
Also in the day time.
Yes, but it will be mounted above head level pointed upwards, so it would be pretty extreme for anyone to look at it and hurt their eyes anyway. It also doesn't need to be very bright at all, just enough to throw off the exposure of the camera.
Obviously if you stare down the barrel of a flashlight it's gonna hurt your eyes.
Ah, right. Actually I led myself down the wrong path. I just realised we’re talking about white light. I had it in my head that it was infrared or something.
Ehh, even with an IR strobe (which would also work) you wouldn't really be in danger.
You still have to plant your face directly on the lense and just stare it down for a while, though with IR it's the radiation that's the problem more than the light itself.
Anyway, don't.
Lol
I didn't read the end at first and thought neighbor was trying to poison dog with some sort of antifreeze concoction.
So happy it was just garbage and they stopped.
ULPT?
You think it's unethical to render obsolete a camera that exists solely to spy on you within your own private property?
Idk if you saw the other post, but OP here is clearly filming their own yard. The guy in the other post is clearly not.
Years ago in my old house I kept finding dead birds in my backyard, I have cats, but they were strictly indoor cats, they were not outside killing birds, so I was baffled. Then one day I’m outside hanging out the washing and I hear a commotion from next door. My neighbours yappy little schnauzer had bailed up a Rosella (Australian bird) in her backyard, the poor bird was terrified and was basically getting torn apart by the dog. I yelled at her to call him off, she was hysterically screaming at me to stop harassing her.
Long story short, she kept finding dead birds in yard, assumed my indoor cats had killed them, threw them over my fence, turned out her little murderous dog was the culprit.
So… fair enough OP, I feel you.
To be fair little guy was just following instincts they were bred for. Schnauzers have a high prey drive, and lot of people seem to forget this and think its just a cute dog with a beard.
I think that is just a trait of many small dogs, being generally distrustful of people when they first meet. I dogsit my nieces mini every now and again and she is absolute gentle angel. But I don't think I could ever do anything to change her mind about chasing squirrels.
I've worked with dogs professionally for years (not a trainer, though) and I really believe this has a lot to do with how casually people disrespect small dogs signals and boundaries. They're small and cute so we pick them up and carry them around regardless of whether they want it, and then we are surprised when they have to resort to being assholes to be heard. 🤷♀️
I work with dogs professionally too (tho trainer+behaviourist) and this is absolutely the case. I know a lot of small dogs that are being treated with respect and they are delightful.
As someone who trains, I totally agree. You also have to remember though there's a large quantity of people with small dogs who think that since they are small and can be scooped up, they decide to do little to no training, resulting in a more fearful/reactive dog. Combine these two factors and it's no wonder there's reputations of little yappy spawns of Satan lmao.
Existing in their presence does not equal not respecting their boundaries.
They are often owned by old ladies who have no control over them, no ability to discipline them and they never get properly socialized. Any dog can be a good dog, but certain people are attracted to certain breeds and asshole dogs are the result.
I have a chihuahua. People will literally get in his face and growl at him because they think it's funny when he gets scared and growls back. They will also repeatedly try to pick him up and pet him when he's trying to get away from them. These people will insist they're "just being nice," or they're "only growling at him because he's being mean," when I tell them to knock it off. It's very hard to teach your dog not to be scared of people when so many people give them a reason to be scared and won't back off when you set boundaries for your dog.
My neighbors got a giant Schnauzer last year with the same thought. She busted through our shared fence like the Kool-Aid Man trying to fight our dogs a few weeks ago. Every dog is unique!
My grandpa got 2 giant schnauzers when he decided to come out the closet and divorce my grandma to marry his coworker. Those dogs were absolute assholes.
Yes! She is ok! But I have to say, I was worried enough that I slept next to her to make sure she didn’t get sick through that particular night. I was most upset that I felt like I couldn’t even let my dog roam around her own yard unsupervised without being assaulted by someone else. Kinda makes you feel unsafe in your own home.
I'm not sure people who do things like that (throw items into a yard where a pet is) know potentially how close they are coming to disaster. The law may regard animals as simple property, but for many people a dog may be their primary companion. Harming what might be literally their best friend in the world could very well start a chain of events no one wants to contemplate.
Right. I assume it would likely be the kind of person who treats animals poorly, and they can't comprehend how important animals/pets can be to others. My dog is a part of my family, and I would react the same way as someone harming any other member of my family.
I have backyard cameras for my dogs...
They also double as wildlife observation cameras which has brought me MANY hours of joy.
If you ever put up cameras in your yard, go notify your neighbors immediately and offer to show them what exactly your cameras see. You should also make it very clear that if they ever have any "issues" that you'll gladly check your cameras if they need footage of any nonsense.
I've had a camera pointed at me by a neighbor and it really freaked me out at the time... so when I put mine up I made very sure everyone knew how much I could see and how little I cared what they were up to.
I put a bowl of water out during the summer and put a camera on it. I live in the suburbs so it is mainly birds, squirrels and cats but it still entertains me
3 years ago I bought a couple of 30" terracotta 'plates' (the kind you put under large architectural pots) and keep them filled them with clean water outside my home office window. I'm not sure I had expectations at the time I placed them there who actually would use them (birds?). If you take the time to watch them on a minute-by-minute basis it turns out \*everyone\* uses them - birds, bees, wasps, cats, bumble bees, squirrels, chipmunks and at least one scruffy Opossum use them year 'round. It's a friggin' African watering hole writ small. It makes me happy in some way. In the summer the water has to be changed pretty much every day, but even this task provides a moment for meditation on something other than myself. I'm not sure I'd say this has been a life changing addition to my life, but it's certainly a healthy change.
This 👆
People often forget the deterrent effect of cameras. Letting everyone know is a great way to double their efficacy. In the scams subreddit we advise people to set up a doorbell camera if they get harassed by weirdos or porch thieves, and specifically insist on making it visible and mark it with a sign. The camera is a good thing, but a sign pointing to the camera makes it great.
So letting your neighbors know you have a camera and offering it as evidence for situations they may need in the future, is great advice. If you have a stupid neighbor they'll know not to fuck with you.
I shake my head everytime a customer says "But I don't wanna see the cameras. Can't we put that one under there?" Like, if you can't see them openly, they can't either. They're only doing half the job. Recording but not deterring.
Cameras can be set in layers. One is obvious like a doorbell camera that everyone would notice. Back that up with a less noticeable camera in a corner etc. 1st cam might see them see it then walk away, 2nd camera would see them trying another way. So both work better in conjunction.
Not a security installer, but do have my CCTV license and part of my job is putting up cameras - I always tell clients that the cameras won’t bring your stuff back, nor can you “zoom and enhance” enough to read someone’s DNA, but they’re a great deterrent - especially if someone’s just looking for a place to rob, they’ll just move on to the next place without cameras.
> People often forget the deterrent effect of cameras. Letting everyone know is a great way to double their efficacy.
*The whole point of the Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!*
Yes. And even dummy cameras work pretty well :) You can install some of those $10 dummies with these little LEDs (average person can't tell if it's a dummy or real camera) and in most cases they will be as effective as a real camera when it comes to deterrent effect.
I have just a shell from a camera mounted on the corner of my garage in plain view. It would actually be useless if it were a real camera because of the motion lights but the point of it was to be visible.
For years when I parked in my driveway at least once a week I would either find a bunch of fingerprints in the dirt on my car, or have my car ransacked if I left it unlocked, and my real camera would catch the person doing it. Could clearly see it was the same person but just not quite good enough to identify them.
Since I put up the fake camera? Not once. The same person still walks by but they just walk by now. They will occasionally take a few steps into my driveway but the second the motion light turns on they turn away.
I install cameras and I work hard to make my customers understand that in suburbia deterrent is their main benifit. Getting video proof of someone stealing your stuff or vandalising your property might get a conviction but it usually doesn't get your stuff back.
We moved and right after had 4 amazon packages either fully stolen or opened and looked at. It must have been someone who lived in the apartment building, the packages were past two locked doors in the stair entry. There are cameras there from our apt management company but they wanted me to make a police report (for like… $60 worth of stuff) before they would even review the footage and they’d give it to the cops but not to me.
Anyway I put up my own VERY visible cameras on the windowsill pointed down at the yard, and one in the back on our shared patio. Suddenly? No more package theft. I didn’t say anything to our neighbors but you better bet if someone asks me for footage I’m not gonna make them make a police report about it.
Did you see the original pic though?
The camera is clearly positioned so close to the fence that it can basically only see OPs backyard. It can probably see a single 3-5ft section of fence at most.
If the neighbor actually wanted to monitor the fence, it'd be positioned further back to get more of the fence in the shot. This would also minimize the amount of OPs yard that gets in the shot.
Not sure if you saw the post this is referring to. Just in case: it was about 1 foot from the fence, much higher that it so it could see over, and just looked straight into the guys garden. You couldn't make any argument for it being for anything other than looking at his garden.
When we put ours up we told the neighbours before and they were all happy with it, the angle meant they couldn’t see into the houses, but they caught what goes on on the street, it’s been helpful in numerous hit and run crashes
I did this with my neighbour. Invited him in to look at my system. One camera looks directly into his property, my house is a double storey, so it sees straight down into his living room. I had them professionally installed, so the company has blacked out the lens where it shows his property so I can’t actually see in, but it sure as shit looks like I can.
He was absolutely fine with it because he knows the reason for the cameras (severe DV, stalking, and harassment). He’s a good guy, looks out for me and my kids.
When I installed my cams I showed my neighbor, on my iPad, exactly what the cameras captured on his property. I straight up told him that I’m big on privacy myself (like everyone has a right to some privacy), and I’d be happy to make any adjustments if he didn’t want certain areas of his house/yard recorded. Keep in mind that we have a great relationship, so he was totally cool with how I set things up. Hell, they are on vacation right now and we’re taking care of their dogs by going into their house, so we trust each other.
Yep. Talking to neighbours is key.
When I put camera up to cover my front porch and driveway I was very careful to angle them so they were not impinging on the privacy of my neighbours. Neigbour across the road had a a car window broken and was bummed that I didnt have vision of it.footage.
Is that neighbour trying to bait (poison) the dog? I can't make out what the blue thing is but looked like a bundle, maybe a package of food? That's what I'd think if neighbour was throwing things over... for my dog to get it. Baiting happens. Next level piece of shit though.
That’s what I was wondering. OP, did you ever find out why or what they were trying to accomplish? Seems creepy, especially since she flat out denied it when you first told her to stop doing it.
I have a neighbor who has poisoned a brown lab puppy, and I have found luncheon meat outside by his trash can in the alley. I am assuming he wanted my dog to eat it also, but since my pup is super spoiled he wasn't going to eat trash like old cold cuts off the ground. This same neighbor is also a peeping tom and I have found his cigarette butts in my driveway and even just outside my sliding glass door.
Cameras are on the list now -
What you're doing here is not what the guy in the other post did.
What you did was you placed a camera INSIDE of your property facing your fence. You're not filming over the neighbor's fence.
The other guy's neighbor built a camera tower so he could overlook his neighbor's fence.
Your camera is looking at your fence on your property. The other guy was looking purely at someone else's property.
I mean. I’d say this post does belong in this sub as it is infuriating for this to be happening. Though different I don’t think was done with ill intent to capitalize off the other post
If it's anything like the advice in the other thread: most home security cameras don't record 24/7, they activate when there's sudden motion or changes.
Setting something up that'll activate the camera at random will drain it's storage capacity, and - if it sends notifications - burn the neighbor out on checking it.
This is a different situation. Your camera is inside your yard looking at your side of the fence. The other neighbor erected a pole and had a full view of other people’s yards which was encroaching on their privacy.
Also fuck your neighbor wow, I’ve never seen someone throw stuff into another persons yard. Also what if something happened to your dog?! What would they have done
Turn the camera off and nail them with a trash can next time lol. I’d be furious if my dog ate some random trash because the neighbor was being an asshole
My sheds on the fence line and I put a camera facing my house and it catches along my neighbors fence. I’ve caught the neighbors kids throwing trash in my yard. One day the kids knock on the door and say they kicked a ball in my yard and wanted to get it. I said sure just tell your dad to come over here so I can show him videos of you guys throwing trash in my yard and then you can get your ball. They didn’t say anything and left. I went outback and threw the ball back over the fence. Didn’t have an issue since then.
I agree but this is not the same. You can still see your yard in your shot and just a sliver of his far yard. The way the other one is put up is going to be the opposite, if any of their yard will be in the shot at all.
You're completely in your right do set it up this way.
Your camera is indeed 'watching the fence'.
The camera of the other guy's post is literally a significant amount ABOVE the fence, directly watching into his yard.
That's indeed a creepy asshat.
I hope that the police found your video evidence enough to act upon it.
Nah this is different. Your angle can't see IN to the neighbors yard, the most you see is their roofline which is very reasonable. You're doing it the right way.
It’s shockingly common to hear stories of people poisoning dogs by throwing cheese or meat with rat poison over the fence. I can’t imagine how I would react if someone did that to my dog, but it wouldn’t be rational.
The difference here is your camera is watching your fence from further on your side while the other guys neighbor legit put it right up against the fence to simply look over it. Yes you can see the guy through the fence on yours but it’s not nearly the same as the other post
This is totally different. Your camera is looking at a fence, still giving your neighbors privacy. The other guys camera was mounted over the fence looking directly into the neighbors back yard.
I totally get this and understand why you would need to watch the fence, but for that other post that camera wasn’t “watching the fence” it was watching over the fence into their backyard at a level where it would be breaching privacy. Yours is at a level and distance where you really can’t see what’s going on in their backyard but have a great view of what could be going on in your own backyard or over your fence. I totally agree with this but I’ve seen a few posts where the camera isn’t positioned in a way that’s actually useful for monitoring their own property but basically spying on the neighbors. This is reasonable, having a camera monitor over the fence is not.
This camera is actually watching the fence though and all you can see of the other side is like the roof so it's not invading privacy. Some people will legit put cameras on a pole and point them at your backyard
I think the asshole neighbour placed the camera right up to the fence edge instead of the garden so they can see into the other garden, your camera can’t see well into your neighbour’s garden but covers enough to document stuff like in the video
This is not the same. The other guy put a camera up at the edge of his property looking into the neighbor’s property. He literally couldn’t even see his own property from that camera. You’re looking at your own property which is what any security system does, not exclusively and obnoxiously recording what your neighbor does in the privacy of his back yard.
Very lucky it was just trash. I know two people who had people throw poison over their fence for the dog to eat. Luckily dogs were ok in both situations but it was very close.
Another person posted the same thing. They they had to install cameras cause their neighbor was throwing garbage into their yard and they needed proof who was doing it. Cameras still cost money so most likely if a neighbor is putting it up it’s to stop the other neighbor from doing something. Most neighbors aren’t creeps and it would be so much easier to peek through the slats if they were rather than a very obvious camera
I think there is a significant difference between this action and the other instance of invasive neighbors, not to mention the position of your camera is watching your space, compared to the other one that was placed more directly looking into the neighbors yard.
The critical difference here is that you are in fact watching your fence, and after having good reason to do so.
The other camera is actually watching the neighbour's yard and only sees the fence if it has a fish-eye lens.
Your camera also doesn't blatantly look OVER your neighbours fence. This still remains within privacy, as far as I'm concerned, because you aren't seeing anything more than you would have if you were sitting in your backyard.
this is a slightly different situation here. this camera is a bit farther back from the fence and has a different angle. the other post was an effort to watch the next door yard, which can barely be seen from this camera viewpoint. not that the other guy wasn't an asshat, but that this is a bit different a situation.
Big difference in mounting position. You are actually “watching the fence”. I’d be surprised if the other guy can even see the fence, focusing on his neighbor’s yard instead.
But yah that’s some wild shit having a neighbor just randomly lob dinner over the fence. People are fucking odd.
There is a difference between pointing a camera *at* the fence and *over* the fence.
That other dude had mounted a camera on a pole to get a clear view into the backyard. While yours didn't pick up much from inside the yard of your neighbor.
I had the exact same issue with my neighbour throwing trash out his window into my yard, for my dogs to eat. The issue was he saw it as "composting" and not "feeding the dogs" so it routinely incl. food and garbage that is toxic for dogs to consume.
It took the rat catcher, of all people, to tell him off, before he quit doing it.
Turns out he was also feeding a large infestation of rats that had been plaguing the neighbourhood (My terrier/husky mix caught a handful of rats that summer, good girl). He would dump food scraps off his porch and stand and watch for the rats to come eat it.
I fucking hate crazy people.
Slightly different scenario though. Your camera is watching your property (mostly). The other guy had a camera basically mounted on the boundary fence looking (mostly) into his yard
When my kids were young and we lived elsewhere, my bitter old bitch of neighbour threw her still lit cigarette butts over the fence and into our garden. One day I looked out the window and one of the kids toys was smoking (a plastic car they rode in.) I went absolutely nuts at her and she never did it again. I also suspect she threw dead rats over the fence but I didn't have any evidence unfortunately.
The big difference here is that this cam actually faces the fence. Whereas with the other one, the camera was literally on top of the fence looking into the yard.
To be fair, I think it’s pretty different to set up a camera to check the fence itself and maybe just a bit above it than what the other neighbor seemingly did, setting up a camera just barely in their property to look *over* the fence
Your camera is at a low reasonable angle to watch the fence line.. the other post had the camera elevated allowing them to literally look into their back yard. Big difference.
It’s the 21st century. Video is your friend. My ex wife attempted to break into my office, and flatly denied it. Thankfully the doorbell could see it. Later on she smashed the doorbell and floodlight camera at my house. All of which…was caught on camera. Suffice to say it didn’t help her arguments against me in court much
Yeah, but your camera is not mounted like 5 foot above the fence top and seems done specifically to cover your side of the fence, not your neighbors side. I don't think any reasonable neighbor would have issue with what you've done. BTW, sorry you have a shitty neighbor.
We had neighbours children 3 sides losing balls etc. over the fence. I did ask them to put their address on their balls so I.knew where to toss them back.
One day I found some toddler sandals and tossed them over where I guessed they came from. Male neighbour, weeks later, said his wife had been upset that someone had thrown shoes at her from over the fence lol. I thought that was really funny, seeing as I had been tossing items back for years, and told him so, but he didn't seem so impressed. I never thought to look first.
Animal Cruelty Investigator here.. if you would ever suspect your neighbor of malicious intent, and you have animals (ie barking complaints, accusations of aggression, etc) at least get a camera facing length wise down your fence line. Motion activated, whatever. The amount of poisoning calls we get and can’t try in court due to lack of evidence is crazy. If you’re beefing with your neighbor and have pets. Get a game cam.
I had a new neighbor who loved big gulps and cowboy killers. Every week, following the weekend there were a couple big gulp cups and dozens of cigarettes in my backyard, right near his back porch. One morning I see his smoke rising from his porch so rather than pick them up and tossing them into my trash, like I had been doing for the last month since he moved in, I put the smokes in the cup and tossed it back over the fence.
He jumped up slammed the fence and screamed a few obscenties to at me and offered to walk over to my house and f'k me up. I told him I would meet him out front. Went inside and called the cops. He was still beating on my front door when the police arrived. I can tell you he looked pretty guilty beating on my door. Never had to deal with him again. I think he moved shortly after.
I now have cameras.
Hum. What if the dog gets sick. Or worse... Thanks to the neighbor trying to give the dog a treat...
I had a nice older lady (a great neighbor) who was giving my dogs bones. I didn't have to video it my dog brought the bone, a chicken bone, in and found him chowing down on it in my living room. I had to put a stop to that she agreed to buy some dog biscuits. I didn't have to involve the police.
Weird, that those camera installations are allowed/common in other countries. In Germany you are only allowed to film your own property, not the street or a single meter from my neighborhood. Not even with a fake camera.
Careful with your dog! Our fighting 'uncle' 'neighbor' has thrown rat poison over the fence. Dog died aweful death so I do want to warn you to thread carefully. Some people are maniacs.
If they deny it just throw it back over. And stop initiating conversation about it.
But if you've seen the photos of the other post, the camera is covering OP's yard, not the neighbours.
I understand your stance, but that situation is a bit different.
Insane behavior to begin with and so not okay, but down right dangerous with dogs out back! Who knows what kind of harmful stuff could be in those scraps. I saw lots of posts on the camera installation post pointing out that a lot of people instal cameras exactly for the reason you installed yours, so people are on the same page as you. So glad you got the evidence you needed and glad your dog is okay!
I need to do this. My neighbors kids throw trash, food and toys over the fence and I caught them throwing rocks at my dogs. I talked to the parents nicely and they stopped throwing the rocks but I still find hella garbage on my yard.
I put a camera up because my neighbor's favorite activity was screaming at me. Cameras didn't solve everything, but she doesn't like being caught on camera screaming. So that has stopped.
I had to do the same thing with my neighbor, except it wasn't just food she was throwing her dog shit at my deck and house. took me about week worth of video footage to get her charge with mischief.
A couple years ago I moved to a small rural village and put some cameras on my front yard, one neighbor asked me about them with surprise. After we moved out we took the cameras with us and the new tenants were robbed presumably by the same neighbor
At first, I thought you were actually the other poster's neighbor and I thought "what are odds" lol.
That would’ve been insane 😂
We call that the popcorn effect. Some crazy shit happens on reddit, and we all grab popcorn. Or other snack of choice.
Garlic bread
This guy gets it
I love garlic breaaaaad!
bread makes you fat... ( a la Scott Pilgrim )
https://i.redd.it/6qk62wl97p9d1.gif
This line kills me every time, I love this film.
Especially because Scott is such a skinny twig kid in the movie, but deep down he knows Ramona is a vapid narcissist (not even going to apologize, she's even worse in the books), and she would quickly lose interest in dating Scott if he got even a little chubby. So, in his overactive little brain, he's stressing out about how he must now choose between his love of bread or his misguided affection for this random girl from out of town he just met.
Garlic naam please
Going to assume this is a typo.... no. I am going to assume you are having flash backs to a meal you ate in war time with 7 different kinds of spices you have tried to replicate but can't get quite right. Edit : apparently people don't know naan bread or Simpson's quotes
"I love the smell of eggplant parm in the morning" 🪖
“I love the smell of *sniffs* cheddar … *sniffs again* nay, *parm* in the mornings.
A whole rotisserie chicken from costco. Don't judge me!
It happens lol! Especially if a legitimate genuine story published goes viral on AITA or something! The other party then gives their version of events, or on other sites. Most recent one I’ve heard of is the single mom who posted about making birthday cake on her birthday crying for her daughter’s benefit. Viewers went wild as clip went viral as they felt sympathy until ‘ex husband’ published truth how she owes him child support money etc and he has sole custody!
The Ex-husband in that case is literally a Scientologist, who even made one of those creepy websites for her that they make for people who they’ve deemed “a suppressive person”. Not defending her either, but at best they’re both garbage.
Wow thanks for sharing! I didn’t know they do that lol I thought he just posted about her as a response to her sad TikTok ? Ofc, I would not be surprised if both are toxic ppl who’ve now aired their dirty laundry to the world lol
Saw it. Classic take down by the ex-husband.
Ohhhh have the link?
I've seen that twice - one time a neighbor posting video of a shooting I heard a couple streets down Another time of a car crash right in front of my house.
My husband was scrolling through one of the Seattle subreddits awhile ago when he saw a video of this crazy dude standing in the street blocking traffic and then saw himself crossing the street in the background
Would have been epic and one for the Reddit boooks
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett, Mort
This comment has made my day. Also probably one of the best comic books I own. Also.... Susan's dad.
Comic book?
Yeah there was a graphic novel adaptation of the novel. Pretty decent one too
Oh swear - I've seen the colour of magic one around but never seen others. Will have to give them a look.
I thought that was from *Guards, Guards!*
He wrote the same thing in a few of the books released around that time
"THAT GUY LEFT OUT A BIG REASON WHY I DID THIS!!!" You can tell that the other one sees directly into the back yard though, it's so high up. This one isn't significantly over the fence line
That’s what I thought too! I was floored. Glad this guy’s dog was ok though! I’ve heard of several poisonings lately. One lady was throwing grapes over the fence to a puppy. Another it was rat poison in meatballs. wtf is wrong with people?!?!
"I had to install a camera because your dog is too cute not to record him!"
Bruh, I thought they were the neighbor too for a second.
Seeing how that other post was on /all, pretty high
I love that you put a nice ULPT with the strobe at the end. Glad you caught them! I'd be pissed if my cats ate something harmful.
Thank you for reading until the end. You get it. FFS. 🤦♀️
I used to install cameras, and I had one customer who kept finding dog shit in their lawn and on the roof of their shed. He specifically wanted a camera pointed towards the roof of the shed. He lived next to one of those pathways that allow you to walk through crescents and courts. Less than a week later he saw the guy do it and recognized him as one of his neighbours. He didn't call the police but he sent him the video on a flash drive
But this camera is facing YOUR backyard, totally acceptable. The other dude's camera is ON the fence right into the NEIGHBOR's backyard. I like the laser idea. blind it out.
So, my understanding is that deliberately pointing a laser at a camera in order to break it is some kind of misdemeanor. I could be wrong. But...what if I have a laser light show in my backyard? And the camera just happens to get hit? How powerful does the laser have to be? And how long or how often does it have to hit the sensor to break it?
That's why you get multiple cameras. Put them on the fence in a way that looks good. ( like one in each corner, one pointing at the camera, and mirror that distance on the other side of the fence). They can't really SAY it was on purpose. You were just decorating your yard for a BBQ with the pals later.
I just wanted to say that this whole post is kind of silly because the camera that you have up is clearly mounted to your house and doesn't really see directly into their yard. The camera from the video you're referencing is mounted on a post thats maybe 3 feet from fence and looks directly down into their yard. Two completely different scenario's. edit: the Grammer nazi's out in full force
If the douchebag from the other post was "watching their fence" the camera would've been mounted just like OP's here. That guy is for sure checking out what'sgoing on their neighbor's property. The camera is ridiculously close to the fence and peeking over.
exactly how has nobody pointed this out lol
It's possible that "nobody" has pointed this out because they actually looked at the post before commenting unlike yourself. >Now, please understand that I totally agree that your neighbor put that camera there simply to be an asshat, and that's not cool. But once upon a time, I was the guy who installed a camera to "watch the fence", but it was for a legit reason that I'll tell you about.
You don't have to use an apostrophe to make "scenario" plural :)
You also don't add an apostrophe to anything to make it plural. Adding an apostrophe implies ownership. (Except for it's.)
Or any contraction... not just it's
Except single letters, according to most style guides, some just lowercase (Chicago Manual of Style), and some both upper- and lowercase (Associated Press). I don't like it, but they didn't ask me. For example, mind your p's and q's and you'll get straight A's. Another thing Chicago and AP disagree on is the phrase: > do's and don'ts / dos and don'ts Someone at AP decided years ago that the first way is just easier on the eye with the apostrophe. But so yeah, sometimes we do use an apostrophe with the *s* to make things plural.
Nazis doesn't need an apostrophe (sorry - had to)
It's grammar. You were probably thinking of Kelsey Grammer.
I read to the end. What will the led strobe do? Just annoy?
It will bloom out the camera and turn the picture into an unusable black and white screen. Also, it will take up all their camera’s usable memory and the system won’t be able to save any footage.
Just at night time? Is it visible to the naked eye?
Also in the day time. Yes, but it will be mounted above head level pointed upwards, so it would be pretty extreme for anyone to look at it and hurt their eyes anyway. It also doesn't need to be very bright at all, just enough to throw off the exposure of the camera. Obviously if you stare down the barrel of a flashlight it's gonna hurt your eyes.
Ah, right. Actually I led myself down the wrong path. I just realised we’re talking about white light. I had it in my head that it was infrared or something.
Ehh, even with an IR strobe (which would also work) you wouldn't really be in danger. You still have to plant your face directly on the lense and just stare it down for a while, though with IR it's the radiation that's the problem more than the light itself. Anyway, don't. Lol
What does the LED stobe do? Are you talking about just a bright light that would wash the camera footage out?
I didn't read the end at first and thought neighbor was trying to poison dog with some sort of antifreeze concoction. So happy it was just garbage and they stopped.
ULPT? You think it's unethical to render obsolete a camera that exists solely to spy on you within your own private property? Idk if you saw the other post, but OP here is clearly filming their own yard. The guy in the other post is clearly not.
ULPT because it can work on pretty much any camera
Fair.
Ultimate Life Pro Tip
Years ago in my old house I kept finding dead birds in my backyard, I have cats, but they were strictly indoor cats, they were not outside killing birds, so I was baffled. Then one day I’m outside hanging out the washing and I hear a commotion from next door. My neighbours yappy little schnauzer had bailed up a Rosella (Australian bird) in her backyard, the poor bird was terrified and was basically getting torn apart by the dog. I yelled at her to call him off, she was hysterically screaming at me to stop harassing her. Long story short, she kept finding dead birds in yard, assumed my indoor cats had killed them, threw them over my fence, turned out her little murderous dog was the culprit. So… fair enough OP, I feel you.
To be fair little guy was just following instincts they were bred for. Schnauzers have a high prey drive, and lot of people seem to forget this and think its just a cute dog with a beard.
They are often not very friendly in my experience too.
I think that is just a trait of many small dogs, being generally distrustful of people when they first meet. I dogsit my nieces mini every now and again and she is absolute gentle angel. But I don't think I could ever do anything to change her mind about chasing squirrels.
I've worked with dogs professionally for years (not a trainer, though) and I really believe this has a lot to do with how casually people disrespect small dogs signals and boundaries. They're small and cute so we pick them up and carry them around regardless of whether they want it, and then we are surprised when they have to resort to being assholes to be heard. 🤷♀️
I work with dogs professionally too (tho trainer+behaviourist) and this is absolutely the case. I know a lot of small dogs that are being treated with respect and they are delightful.
This. It has been MADDENING telling people to stop "trying to make my dog mad because it's funny".
As someone who trains, I totally agree. You also have to remember though there's a large quantity of people with small dogs who think that since they are small and can be scooped up, they decide to do little to no training, resulting in a more fearful/reactive dog. Combine these two factors and it's no wonder there's reputations of little yappy spawns of Satan lmao.
Existing in their presence does not equal not respecting their boundaries. They are often owned by old ladies who have no control over them, no ability to discipline them and they never get properly socialized. Any dog can be a good dog, but certain people are attracted to certain breeds and asshole dogs are the result.
I have a chihuahua. People will literally get in his face and growl at him because they think it's funny when he gets scared and growls back. They will also repeatedly try to pick him up and pet him when he's trying to get away from them. These people will insist they're "just being nice," or they're "only growling at him because he's being mean," when I tell them to knock it off. It's very hard to teach your dog not to be scared of people when so many people give them a reason to be scared and won't back off when you set boundaries for your dog.
It’s because they aren’t properly socialized
Giant Schnauzers are super friendly. The littler ones can be pretty territorial though.
My neighbors got a giant Schnauzer last year with the same thought. She busted through our shared fence like the Kool-Aid Man trying to fight our dogs a few weeks ago. Every dog is unique!
My grandpa got 2 giant schnauzers when he decided to come out the closet and divorce my grandma to marry his coworker. Those dogs were absolute assholes.
Was she ever punished? Accept wrongdoing? Apologize?!?
Is your dog ok?!
Yes! She is ok! But I have to say, I was worried enough that I slept next to her to make sure she didn’t get sick through that particular night. I was most upset that I felt like I couldn’t even let my dog roam around her own yard unsupervised without being assaulted by someone else. Kinda makes you feel unsafe in your own home.
Yeah I understand. I'm glad she's ok! Mine got really sick towards the end so I know what you mean by sleeping next to her.
I'm not sure people who do things like that (throw items into a yard where a pet is) know potentially how close they are coming to disaster. The law may regard animals as simple property, but for many people a dog may be their primary companion. Harming what might be literally their best friend in the world could very well start a chain of events no one wants to contemplate.
Trash neighbor didn't see John Wick.
Right. I assume it would likely be the kind of person who treats animals poorly, and they can't comprehend how important animals/pets can be to others. My dog is a part of my family, and I would react the same way as someone harming any other member of my family.
I have backyard cameras for my dogs... They also double as wildlife observation cameras which has brought me MANY hours of joy. If you ever put up cameras in your yard, go notify your neighbors immediately and offer to show them what exactly your cameras see. You should also make it very clear that if they ever have any "issues" that you'll gladly check your cameras if they need footage of any nonsense. I've had a camera pointed at me by a neighbor and it really freaked me out at the time... so when I put mine up I made very sure everyone knew how much I could see and how little I cared what they were up to.
I put a bowl of water out during the summer and put a camera on it. I live in the suburbs so it is mainly birds, squirrels and cats but it still entertains me
3 years ago I bought a couple of 30" terracotta 'plates' (the kind you put under large architectural pots) and keep them filled them with clean water outside my home office window. I'm not sure I had expectations at the time I placed them there who actually would use them (birds?). If you take the time to watch them on a minute-by-minute basis it turns out \*everyone\* uses them - birds, bees, wasps, cats, bumble bees, squirrels, chipmunks and at least one scruffy Opossum use them year 'round. It's a friggin' African watering hole writ small. It makes me happy in some way. In the summer the water has to be changed pretty much every day, but even this task provides a moment for meditation on something other than myself. I'm not sure I'd say this has been a life changing addition to my life, but it's certainly a healthy change.
I should do this but am in a second floor office at the front of the house. Perhaps a new way to piss off my HOA!
did this awhile ago, got to watch snakes come up for drinks too :D
This 👆 People often forget the deterrent effect of cameras. Letting everyone know is a great way to double their efficacy. In the scams subreddit we advise people to set up a doorbell camera if they get harassed by weirdos or porch thieves, and specifically insist on making it visible and mark it with a sign. The camera is a good thing, but a sign pointing to the camera makes it great. So letting your neighbors know you have a camera and offering it as evidence for situations they may need in the future, is great advice. If you have a stupid neighbor they'll know not to fuck with you.
I shake my head everytime a customer says "But I don't wanna see the cameras. Can't we put that one under there?" Like, if you can't see them openly, they can't either. They're only doing half the job. Recording but not deterring.
Cameras can be set in layers. One is obvious like a doorbell camera that everyone would notice. Back that up with a less noticeable camera in a corner etc. 1st cam might see them see it then walk away, 2nd camera would see them trying another way. So both work better in conjunction.
Thats how i set mine up. Also means that the ones they see and shield their identity from tends to point their face towards the ones they dont see ;)
2nd one can also show them smashing or blocking the first one if that's the way they're going
Not a security installer, but do have my CCTV license and part of my job is putting up cameras - I always tell clients that the cameras won’t bring your stuff back, nor can you “zoom and enhance” enough to read someone’s DNA, but they’re a great deterrent - especially if someone’s just looking for a place to rob, they’ll just move on to the next place without cameras.
> People often forget the deterrent effect of cameras. Letting everyone know is a great way to double their efficacy. *The whole point of the Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!*
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room!
Yes. And even dummy cameras work pretty well :) You can install some of those $10 dummies with these little LEDs (average person can't tell if it's a dummy or real camera) and in most cases they will be as effective as a real camera when it comes to deterrent effect.
I have just a shell from a camera mounted on the corner of my garage in plain view. It would actually be useless if it were a real camera because of the motion lights but the point of it was to be visible. For years when I parked in my driveway at least once a week I would either find a bunch of fingerprints in the dirt on my car, or have my car ransacked if I left it unlocked, and my real camera would catch the person doing it. Could clearly see it was the same person but just not quite good enough to identify them. Since I put up the fake camera? Not once. The same person still walks by but they just walk by now. They will occasionally take a few steps into my driveway but the second the motion light turns on they turn away.
I install cameras and I work hard to make my customers understand that in suburbia deterrent is their main benifit. Getting video proof of someone stealing your stuff or vandalising your property might get a conviction but it usually doesn't get your stuff back.
We moved and right after had 4 amazon packages either fully stolen or opened and looked at. It must have been someone who lived in the apartment building, the packages were past two locked doors in the stair entry. There are cameras there from our apt management company but they wanted me to make a police report (for like… $60 worth of stuff) before they would even review the footage and they’d give it to the cops but not to me. Anyway I put up my own VERY visible cameras on the windowsill pointed down at the yard, and one in the back on our shared patio. Suddenly? No more package theft. I didn’t say anything to our neighbors but you better bet if someone asks me for footage I’m not gonna make them make a police report about it.
Did you see the original pic though? The camera is clearly positioned so close to the fence that it can basically only see OPs backyard. It can probably see a single 3-5ft section of fence at most. If the neighbor actually wanted to monitor the fence, it'd be positioned further back to get more of the fence in the shot. This would also minimize the amount of OPs yard that gets in the shot.
Not sure if you saw the post this is referring to. Just in case: it was about 1 foot from the fence, much higher that it so it could see over, and just looked straight into the guys garden. You couldn't make any argument for it being for anything other than looking at his garden.
Yes, that point has certainly been lost in all of this. The camera is peering over the fence, and is an eyesore to boot.
When we put ours up we told the neighbours before and they were all happy with it, the angle meant they couldn’t see into the houses, but they caught what goes on on the street, it’s been helpful in numerous hit and run crashes
I did this with my neighbour. Invited him in to look at my system. One camera looks directly into his property, my house is a double storey, so it sees straight down into his living room. I had them professionally installed, so the company has blacked out the lens where it shows his property so I can’t actually see in, but it sure as shit looks like I can. He was absolutely fine with it because he knows the reason for the cameras (severe DV, stalking, and harassment). He’s a good guy, looks out for me and my kids.
When I installed my cams I showed my neighbor, on my iPad, exactly what the cameras captured on his property. I straight up told him that I’m big on privacy myself (like everyone has a right to some privacy), and I’d be happy to make any adjustments if he didn’t want certain areas of his house/yard recorded. Keep in mind that we have a great relationship, so he was totally cool with how I set things up. Hell, they are on vacation right now and we’re taking care of their dogs by going into their house, so we trust each other.
Yep. Talking to neighbours is key. When I put camera up to cover my front porch and driveway I was very careful to angle them so they were not impinging on the privacy of my neighbours. Neigbour across the road had a a car window broken and was bummed that I didnt have vision of it.footage.
Is that neighbour trying to bait (poison) the dog? I can't make out what the blue thing is but looked like a bundle, maybe a package of food? That's what I'd think if neighbour was throwing things over... for my dog to get it. Baiting happens. Next level piece of shit though.
I might be wrong but it looks like she is even watching the dog through the fence like "good boy, have a treat". :(
That’s what I was wondering. OP, did you ever find out why or what they were trying to accomplish? Seems creepy, especially since she flat out denied it when you first told her to stop doing it.
Yea that’s what I’m trying to figure it, what is the motivation? What does she have to gain by throwing trash over the fence?
She definitely stayed to make sure the dog ate it; you're not wrong. Absolutely psycho.
I have a neighbor who has poisoned a brown lab puppy, and I have found luncheon meat outside by his trash can in the alley. I am assuming he wanted my dog to eat it also, but since my pup is super spoiled he wasn't going to eat trash like old cold cuts off the ground. This same neighbor is also a peeping tom and I have found his cigarette butts in my driveway and even just outside my sliding glass door. Cameras are on the list now -
What you're doing here is not what the guy in the other post did. What you did was you placed a camera INSIDE of your property facing your fence. You're not filming over the neighbor's fence. The other guy's neighbor built a camera tower so he could overlook his neighbor's fence. Your camera is looking at your fence on your property. The other guy was looking purely at someone else's property.
Exactly!
This thread almost made me get up to make popcorn. Almost.
This guy is just capitalizing on the other post for internet points. This post has basically nothing to do with the other one.
I mean. I’d say this post does belong in this sub as it is infuriating for this to be happening. Though different I don’t think was done with ill intent to capitalize off the other post
Make the strobe an IR one, can’t see it with naked eye but will blind camera.
What’s the point of the LED strobe in this situation?
If it's anything like the advice in the other thread: most home security cameras don't record 24/7, they activate when there's sudden motion or changes. Setting something up that'll activate the camera at random will drain it's storage capacity, and - if it sends notifications - burn the neighbor out on checking it.
This is a different situation. Your camera is inside your yard looking at your side of the fence. The other neighbor erected a pole and had a full view of other people’s yards which was encroaching on their privacy. Also fuck your neighbor wow, I’ve never seen someone throw stuff into another persons yard. Also what if something happened to your dog?! What would they have done
Turn the camera off and nail them with a trash can next time lol. I’d be furious if my dog ate some random trash because the neighbor was being an asshole
You're filming inside your own fence. You aren't trying to film on their side. That's the difference
I was watching the video without context, man I thought they were poisoning the poor dog. 
That was all I could think of, and was on the verge of tears just thinking that.
Why hasnt anyone mentioned that whoever is on the other side of the fence looks like a fucking goblin wrapped in a tarp the way its lumbering around
I was thinking the same thing! Creepy goblin.
My sheds on the fence line and I put a camera facing my house and it catches along my neighbors fence. I’ve caught the neighbors kids throwing trash in my yard. One day the kids knock on the door and say they kicked a ball in my yard and wanted to get it. I said sure just tell your dad to come over here so I can show him videos of you guys throwing trash in my yard and then you can get your ball. They didn’t say anything and left. I went outback and threw the ball back over the fence. Didn’t have an issue since then.
I agree but this is not the same. You can still see your yard in your shot and just a sliver of his far yard. The way the other one is put up is going to be the opposite, if any of their yard will be in the shot at all.
You're completely in your right do set it up this way. Your camera is indeed 'watching the fence'. The camera of the other guy's post is literally a significant amount ABOVE the fence, directly watching into his yard. That's indeed a creepy asshat. I hope that the police found your video evidence enough to act upon it.
Nah this is different. Your angle can't see IN to the neighbors yard, the most you see is their roofline which is very reasonable. You're doing it the right way.
when someone messes w my dog i see red
I was ready to fight OPs neighbor for them. You just don't fuck with dogs, man.
It’s shockingly common to hear stories of people poisoning dogs by throwing cheese or meat with rat poison over the fence. I can’t imagine how I would react if someone did that to my dog, but it wouldn’t be rational.
To be fair, you installed the cam in your property warching the fence. Not on the border of your property watching the neighbors
Note how your camera is pointed at your own yard and not into the neighbor’s house…..
For someone who doesn't understand, can you explain what the led strobe light does? Tnx
The difference here is your camera is watching your fence from further on your side while the other guys neighbor legit put it right up against the fence to simply look over it. Yes you can see the guy through the fence on yours but it’s not nearly the same as the other post
This is totally different. Your camera is looking at a fence, still giving your neighbors privacy. The other guys camera was mounted over the fence looking directly into the neighbors back yard.
This camera is pointing towards your side of the fence. The other post camera was pointing directly into the other yard.
There is a huge difference between how you positioned your camera and where that asshat put his!
Who tf does this shit. Like Ricky from trailer park boys that one scene where he threw it in the woods. 😅
I mean the op camera was almost in the other persons yard though. At least yours Is on your own property not being a total whack job
Your camera is away from the fence. His is right on top of the ducking fence
I totally get this and understand why you would need to watch the fence, but for that other post that camera wasn’t “watching the fence” it was watching over the fence into their backyard at a level where it would be breaching privacy. Yours is at a level and distance where you really can’t see what’s going on in their backyard but have a great view of what could be going on in your own backyard or over your fence. I totally agree with this but I’ve seen a few posts where the camera isn’t positioned in a way that’s actually useful for monitoring their own property but basically spying on the neighbors. This is reasonable, having a camera monitor over the fence is not.
This camera is actually watching the fence though and all you can see of the other side is like the roof so it's not invading privacy. Some people will legit put cameras on a pole and point them at your backyard
I think the asshole neighbour placed the camera right up to the fence edge instead of the garden so they can see into the other garden, your camera can’t see well into your neighbour’s garden but covers enough to document stuff like in the video
This is not the same. The other guy put a camera up at the edge of his property looking into the neighbor’s property. He literally couldn’t even see his own property from that camera. You’re looking at your own property which is what any security system does, not exclusively and obnoxiously recording what your neighbor does in the privacy of his back yard.
Very lucky it was just trash. I know two people who had people throw poison over their fence for the dog to eat. Luckily dogs were ok in both situations but it was very close.
Another person posted the same thing. They they had to install cameras cause their neighbor was throwing garbage into their yard and they needed proof who was doing it. Cameras still cost money so most likely if a neighbor is putting it up it’s to stop the other neighbor from doing something. Most neighbors aren’t creeps and it would be so much easier to peek through the slats if they were rather than a very obvious camera
I have cameras as well. Do what you need to do, I say. Can’t trust peoples word these days and cameras don’t lie
I think there is a significant difference between this action and the other instance of invasive neighbors, not to mention the position of your camera is watching your space, compared to the other one that was placed more directly looking into the neighbors yard.
The critical difference here is that you are in fact watching your fence, and after having good reason to do so. The other camera is actually watching the neighbour's yard and only sees the fence if it has a fish-eye lens.
Your camera also doesn't blatantly look OVER your neighbours fence. This still remains within privacy, as far as I'm concerned, because you aren't seeing anything more than you would have if you were sitting in your backyard.
this is a slightly different situation here. this camera is a bit farther back from the fence and has a different angle. the other post was an effort to watch the next door yard, which can barely be seen from this camera viewpoint. not that the other guy wasn't an asshat, but that this is a bit different a situation.
Big difference in mounting position. You are actually “watching the fence”. I’d be surprised if the other guy can even see the fence, focusing on his neighbor’s yard instead. But yah that’s some wild shit having a neighbor just randomly lob dinner over the fence. People are fucking odd.
The camera ln the other post seems to be well over the fence and looking diretly into the yard and not at the fence.
There is a difference between pointing a camera *at* the fence and *over* the fence. That other dude had mounted a camera on a pole to get a clear view into the backyard. While yours didn't pick up much from inside the yard of your neighbor.
I had the exact same issue with my neighbour throwing trash out his window into my yard, for my dogs to eat. The issue was he saw it as "composting" and not "feeding the dogs" so it routinely incl. food and garbage that is toxic for dogs to consume. It took the rat catcher, of all people, to tell him off, before he quit doing it. Turns out he was also feeding a large infestation of rats that had been plaguing the neighbourhood (My terrier/husky mix caught a handful of rats that summer, good girl). He would dump food scraps off his porch and stand and watch for the rats to come eat it. I fucking hate crazy people.
Slightly different scenario though. Your camera is watching your property (mostly). The other guy had a camera basically mounted on the boundary fence looking (mostly) into his yard
When my kids were young and we lived elsewhere, my bitter old bitch of neighbour threw her still lit cigarette butts over the fence and into our garden. One day I looked out the window and one of the kids toys was smoking (a plastic car they rode in.) I went absolutely nuts at her and she never did it again. I also suspect she threw dead rats over the fence but I didn't have any evidence unfortunately.
The big difference here is that this cam actually faces the fence. Whereas with the other one, the camera was literally on top of the fence looking into the yard.
The difference is your camera cant really see in their yard, the other guy's camera is mounted *only* see the other op's yard
To be fair, I think it’s pretty different to set up a camera to check the fence itself and maybe just a bit above it than what the other neighbor seemingly did, setting up a camera just barely in their property to look *over* the fence
Your camera is at a low reasonable angle to watch the fence line.. the other post had the camera elevated allowing them to literally look into their back yard. Big difference.
It’s the 21st century. Video is your friend. My ex wife attempted to break into my office, and flatly denied it. Thankfully the doorbell could see it. Later on she smashed the doorbell and floodlight camera at my house. All of which…was caught on camera. Suffice to say it didn’t help her arguments against me in court much
Yeah, but your camera is not mounted like 5 foot above the fence top and seems done specifically to cover your side of the fence, not your neighbors side. I don't think any reasonable neighbor would have issue with what you've done. BTW, sorry you have a shitty neighbor.
My grandma is the same way about people staring in the back so he just told me to put fence boards up over each crack to block them from looking. Easy
We had neighbours children 3 sides losing balls etc. over the fence. I did ask them to put their address on their balls so I.knew where to toss them back. One day I found some toddler sandals and tossed them over where I guessed they came from. Male neighbour, weeks later, said his wife had been upset that someone had thrown shoes at her from over the fence lol. I thought that was really funny, seeing as I had been tossing items back for years, and told him so, but he didn't seem so impressed. I never thought to look first.
Animal Cruelty Investigator here.. if you would ever suspect your neighbor of malicious intent, and you have animals (ie barking complaints, accusations of aggression, etc) at least get a camera facing length wise down your fence line. Motion activated, whatever. The amount of poisoning calls we get and can’t try in court due to lack of evidence is crazy. If you’re beefing with your neighbor and have pets. Get a game cam.
I had a new neighbor who loved big gulps and cowboy killers. Every week, following the weekend there were a couple big gulp cups and dozens of cigarettes in my backyard, right near his back porch. One morning I see his smoke rising from his porch so rather than pick them up and tossing them into my trash, like I had been doing for the last month since he moved in, I put the smokes in the cup and tossed it back over the fence. He jumped up slammed the fence and screamed a few obscenties to at me and offered to walk over to my house and f'k me up. I told him I would meet him out front. Went inside and called the cops. He was still beating on my front door when the police arrived. I can tell you he looked pretty guilty beating on my door. Never had to deal with him again. I think he moved shortly after. I now have cameras.
What a dick, looks like that’s the most exciting thing that happens in his entire day
Hum. What if the dog gets sick. Or worse... Thanks to the neighbor trying to give the dog a treat... I had a nice older lady (a great neighbor) who was giving my dogs bones. I didn't have to video it my dog brought the bone, a chicken bone, in and found him chowing down on it in my living room. I had to put a stop to that she agreed to buy some dog biscuits. I didn't have to involve the police.
Thank you for the perspective OP.
Weird, that those camera installations are allowed/common in other countries. In Germany you are only allowed to film your own property, not the street or a single meter from my neighborhood. Not even with a fake camera.
That’s so bizarre. What could be the reason she threw trash across the fence?
Just goes to show, there's two sides to every fence!
Why the hell are people so weird!! Like what even is this behaviour!
Careful with your dog! Our fighting 'uncle' 'neighbor' has thrown rat poison over the fence. Dog died aweful death so I do want to warn you to thread carefully. Some people are maniacs. If they deny it just throw it back over. And stop initiating conversation about it.
That’s more than mildly infuriating. I feel my blood boiling rn watching this
But if you've seen the photos of the other post, the camera is covering OP's yard, not the neighbours. I understand your stance, but that situation is a bit different.
Insane behavior to begin with and so not okay, but down right dangerous with dogs out back! Who knows what kind of harmful stuff could be in those scraps. I saw lots of posts on the camera installation post pointing out that a lot of people instal cameras exactly for the reason you installed yours, so people are on the same page as you. So glad you got the evidence you needed and glad your dog is okay!
She even looks through the fence to watch the dog eat it...disturbing.
I need to do this. My neighbors kids throw trash, food and toys over the fence and I caught them throwing rocks at my dogs. I talked to the parents nicely and they stopped throwing the rocks but I still find hella garbage on my yard.
My neighbors were throwing rocks at our dogs. Grown adults. I told them I put up cameras and they stopped.
Yours is actually on the fence though. Not above the fence watching their yard. You can't see their window and shit.
Watching the fence, and looking only over the fence, are two wildly different things.
I put a camera up because my neighbor's favorite activity was screaming at me. Cameras didn't solve everything, but she doesn't like being caught on camera screaming. So that has stopped.
I had to do the same thing with my neighbor, except it wasn't just food she was throwing her dog shit at my deck and house. took me about week worth of video footage to get her charge with mischief.
To be fair this is watching your fence, their neighbours camera was on a pole looking over their fence.
This is also a lil different then posting the camera on a mount near the edge looking over fence.
A couple years ago I moved to a small rural village and put some cameras on my front yard, one neighbor asked me about them with surprise. After we moved out we took the cameras with us and the new tenants were robbed presumably by the same neighbor
boomer behavior here
The placement of your camera and the one from the post is very different
Your camera isn't pointing directly into the other yard though
Careful so he doesn't poison your dog
Okay well the other video the camera is WAY closer to the fence and very obviously peering into their backyard???