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The Neighbors Are Watching Via Surveillance Video
from the big-brother-is-next-door dept
With all the stories about governments or corporations becoming "Big Brother", it turns out that Big Brother might just be next door. In the latest kidnapping case in California, police say that one of the best initial leads they got came from the surveillance camera of the next door neighbor. Clearly, it's a good thing that such a camera helped lead to information that let the police track down the kidnapper. However, it certainly does raise some privacy issues. Yes, it's nice to have a world where people are unlikely to commit a crime since they're always being watched, but do we really want a world where no one has any real privacy?
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Privacy?
What "privacy"? The camera is shooting a public street, anything it saw could be seen by anyone walking by, driving by or standing on the street corner. There is no presumption of privacy on a public street!
-dave
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This is just typical Mike blather
Dave, don't try to find any logic in this (or any) of Mike's arguments - you won't find any. He usually tends to argue against technological advancements that make laws easier to enforce or that steer people towards the straight & narrow. Heck, the guy is one of the biggest apologists for music thieves that you'll ever find, so its hardly surprising that he's against security cameras, even when used in the context of public spaces.
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Re: This is just typical Mike blather
Dave, don't try to find any logic in this (or any) of Mike's arguments - you won't find any. He usually tends to argue against technological advancements that make laws easier to enforce or that steer people towards the straight & narrow. Heck, the guy is one of the biggest apologists for music thieves that you'll ever find, so its hardly surprising that he's against security cameras, even when used in the context of public spaces.
(a) I'm not against security cameras. I've written about this topic a number of times before, where I've suggested that there's nothing wrong with them. In this case, I was just bringing it up as a discussion point. What rights do you have if your neighbor's security camera is watching over your private property?
(b) I do not apologize for music "thieves" at all. I (and I've pointed this out plenty of times) am just pointing out the changes in the music marketplace that those in the industry might want to think about. I'm no fan of people who share music (I don't do it). I just think, as a business, the music industry needs to learn how to deal with it.
Is it that hard to see the distinction?
(c) If you don't like my logic, there's a very simple solution: don't come to this site.
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No Subject Given
"Yes, it's nice to have a world where people are unlikely to commit a crime since they're always being watched, but do we really want a world where no one has any real privacy? "
lemme see, where can we find out how people behave when they are in an anonymous consequence free environment? The net!
See the proliferation of trolls, spammers, and just plain morons that bring the signal to noise ratio to such desperate levels that discourse is becoming the exception rather than the norm on USENET, IRC, and many many message boards...
While I want my privacy, I can't help but feel that if we WERE under the camera things would be a lot safer...I'm still not sure I want to give up my privacy for this mind you and I'm not arguing for that...I'm just pointing out what people end up becoming when they KNOW they can get away with it....
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Re: This is just typical Mike blather
"He usually tends to argue against technological advancements that make laws easier to enforce or that steer people towards the straight & narrow."
Citizens, beware!
I'm concerned about this "Anonymous Coward" poster. Everyone knows that anonymity is the first refuge of those with something to hide. How can we steer him towards the "straight and narrow" if we don't know who he is, or what he's doing right now? Citizens, beware!
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Re: No Subject Given
heh.
I'm posting as an AC, but I guarentee you that if I were to say anything illegal in this post, like maybe something the Secret Service or FBI would be interested in, I would get in a lot of trouble.
The net is under total surveillance all of the time. Just because you don't know who I am doesn't mean that I can't be found.
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stalking neighbors
The neighbors next door have several cameras (with spot lights)watching our home. One of the cameras only monitors our backyard that has a 7ft. privacy fence. We built the fence to re-establish some privacy. They simple raised the camera. We've bought blinds. They continue to watch. Where does the law support our privacy on our not so "private" property?
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Re: stalking neighbors
I have this same issue at my residence. There is a camera facing the window to my room. I have told the neighbor to move the camera in the other direction. I was told that the camera is broken, but is clearly evident that is working just fine. Clearly this is a violation of my privacy. This is in a suburb location with house 10 feet apart. The neighbor is not watching the street, it's pointed straight into my window.
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My neighbors are spying on us with wireless rermot
Help, we are being harrassed by our neighbors a sanctimonious group of religious people who do not like our way of living on our property. We bother no one and live in a secluded lot, yet they want to use probes to look into our house invade our computors and TV's you name it they are watching 24 hours a day with the help of their church's congrigation(man power). We have GPS devices hidden on our cars and I am followed to the library my friends house or when I go out for dinner (everywhere). This has been going on for 2 years now, I can't get proof bercause they know my every move and I don't want the law to think we are crazy, how can I stop this? Can I buy equipment that will jam their equipment and use something that records their activities. The probes they use can inflict itching and touching sensations keeping us up at night also make noises to confuse us. Our cats are being scared into shitting all over the house. This is a federal offense I have read how can i make it stick? I need help!
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neighbors with survillence camera on my hous
My neighbors who live across the street have installed a high tech night vision zoom camera on the top of their garage, and you guessed it that thing is pointed right at my house, when i walk out my front door it flashes red light then adjusts, i walk to my gate to open it and there it is again flashing zooming and watching my every move. Is there not a law against neighbors with video cameras mounted in such a way to single you out and watch your every move, i'm trying to find a law otr something that would prevent this. can someone please help me.
desperate....and getting a restraining order on these people in the meantime for other things.
HELP
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stalking
I have a next door person that is vido recording my every move in my own back yard. also has a 500 watt haligen light shining in my house and back yard at night. the light blinds you every time you step ouit my door. what can be done to stop this invasion into my back yard with the vido and light
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I'm fed up - are you?
My neighbor has 4 surveillance cams pointed over my 7 ft. privacy fence. My entire backyard is privacy fence. No city ordinance against the cams. Two granddaughters 3 & 5 yr. can't even play in their play house or swim now.
This has got to stop and citizens must make it happen. Security is one thing but when it is mounted on a post or in a tree and pointed over the fence, only an idiot would support the contention that it's ok. Whene the boiling point is reached - people get hurt! If you have a good law that covers this in your area - send me info at stiritup05@lycos.com.
Speaking of idiots, don't even go "there" with the argument about "if you aren't doing anything wrong, what does it matter" When I go to the bathroom I'm not doing anything wrong but I don't want people watching. People have an expectation of privacy when their entire yard is enclosed by privacy fence.
If you are fed up with it, too, send your opinion to the above email. I am going to prepare something for our city council. Technology seems to have outstripped the law.
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Neighbor stalking
I have two neighbors who are stalking me. One has a home security camera trained on me when I walk our common easement. The other neighbor drives by with his video camera, tracking all of my moves. He has admitted taking over 50 videos of me and my family so far. The police will do nothing about it because the stalkers maintain they have to keep track of me to prevent problems in the neighborhood because I have a home based business. It is crazy and very upsetting.
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Re: My neighbors are spying on us with wireless re
I am going through the very same thing, so far the thing that I found out that really pisses them off the most is mounting my cameras and pointing them at their homes, and if your camera's have audio then wire a amp and speaker out side and turn it up loud so they can hear what assholes they are
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My neighbors are spying on us
I am not some jerk, but my neighbor kept blaming my children and household members for causing damage to other peoples property. Also I have a situation with the same neighbor is building a addition in his back yard. He has people working back that that are from the local hardware store, day workers and not professional. We have a zero lot line, meaning there in no setback from the home to the property dividing fence. Feed up, I put up cameras. In the front to insure that he could not longer blame my household for damages, in the back to I can insure one of the workers does not hop the wall into my property. Although my neighbor is suppose to be home at all times that work on the addition is taking place, he leaves for hours at a time. I am a single female with 2 kids and could no longer take the bullying. There are 2 sides to every story. Although there is no law stating I can not have those cameras up, sure enough he called the local police and they paid me a visit. The 1st set of cops advised it was a "invasion of privacy". They were not happy when I requested to speak to someone above him. The Sargent came and he was very "gray" about it. I have found nothingin the CA penal code stating I have done anything wrong. If anyone knows, please advise.
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Ron Cosentino
"Mr. Cosentino" or any one who wishes to contack me in reguards to asshole that live next door to you that haves nothing better to do then screw up other peoples lifes. This bullshit has to stop & the law is turning their backs becouse it's less work for them when neighbor go ratting on each other. I have got myself in a vary bad mess, and I hope that any thing that I can shair with you can keep any one out of trouble. email-peppertrans@earthlink.net
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Re: This is just typical Mike blather
It may be blather to you. To take it from one who has experienced being stalked by my neighbors, rapped -- repeatedly -- and no one believing me. Gassed with protane and arms looking like a junkie when I don't do drugs, hair with bald spots where it was shaved (all these things miraculously appearing upon waking. Neighbors constantly outside watching your every move and being followed around. Sounds crazy, right. That is what keeps the knowledge of this phenomena going so boldly.
My house was vandalized to $30,000, even the contractors who came to repair turned around and destroyed my home with water damage yet still expecting me to pay until eventually I had to simply walk away from my home.
I worked at home and my computer system was hacked. Your own computer with DSL access allows for voice and video surveillance.
The FBI and local police simply wrote me off as crazy even when I had semen and went to the hospital for a rape kit performed. I was offered a week in their psych ward instead of a rape kit performed.
The web is full of tells of neighborhood stalkings. I was one of those who did not believe it either until it happened to me.
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Stalked, raped and turned away by the FBI and loca
I contacted the local police for about a year, then I contacted the FBI who sent me back to the local police. I believe this is government authorized because no matter what I do, at a government job or otherwise, I am let go within a few months with lies and sabatoge at work. I have a 145 page documented case of sexual and hostile harrassment that the documentation shows is so obvious anyone would not believe could be contested, yet, nothing was done... Technology is easily obtained, that's true, but it does not explain why the police and the government does nothing to even address the issue. This is happening throughout the USA and I've recently heard on a Wisconsin radio station that "Individual Terrorism" is on the rise.
This all began in 2001 when I contacted the FBI regarding see ADA (the man who supposedly blew up the Trade Center Towers). This man was in Tomball, Texas in 2001 and the FBI did nothing. In 2003, the KKK had a recruitment meeting in this small suburban town and nothing was done about it (which included police officers in sheets I later saw riding around the neighborhood).
Since 2003, all those things annotated in my first message was done, and no one cared. What I learned from this experience is "THAT is what you get for getting involved.... even when asked to."
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Malicious act of systematic harassment and intimid
10/6/04 - current I came home from work to find a closed circuit video camera aimed at our property. It turns on when we pull in the driveway or are anywhere in our front yard. A red light flashes and it moves back and fourth over our property, apparently recording our activity.
The camera was initially aimed so it was viewing part of our house where our bedroom windows are located. I am not sure if this motion sensitive camera also picks up sound. I have observed James Fisher re-aiming it several times. It was re-aimed by him to video tape my wife, son and myself as we pull in the driveway, enjoy our front yard, exit or enter our front or back door. It stayed in this setting until 08/01/05 where it’s now re-aimed by James Fisher at the street. The camera was aimed at us for almost a year. Its existence causes us extreme emotional distress. With a flick of his wrist the camera can be re-aimed directly at us again.
He has a second closed circuit video camera in his front kitchen window aimed at our property. Our lawyer instructed us to film these cameras and take pictures. The camera in his kitchen is now aimed at the sidewalk in front of his house. It is aimed so it is able to record and video tape anyone’s wife, children or little kids or other family members in the neighborhood who happen to be walking down a public sidewalk. This is of course without their knowledge or consent.
Additional Closed Circuit Video equipment discovered on the back of his property
9/7/05- current In the Fishers sliding glass doors out the lower level, there is a third closed circuit camera aimed towards the back of our properties. Which is where our outside Hot Tub is and used by my wife and son with the expectation of privacy. (How many more cameras is he using that are still watching us?). I have seen him on numerous occasions aiming, checking and re-aiming the cameras. Who knows what he does with these tapes of minors and young ladies in the privacy of his basement. They could also be posted onto the internet putting my family in extreme jeopardy from sexual internet predators.
Please help, the police, laywers and local goverment officials along with the comunities civic association seem to think there is nothing wrong wtih this. But as I tell them if it was happening to them they would think differently. Pleas help. I need immediate assistance and guidance.
Thank You,
Steve Nunes
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Nosey neighbors
I am having a problem, I think my neighbors are video taping my house, i have 2 boys who play and sometimes things go in there yard, so know the have the cops at my house threanting my son.............. But i think they are viewing my house and is that against the law?
they hate kids, they won't have any but it is becaue her husband is gay and they just live together to pay their bills. and to think they are 30 !!!
But i think i have a right, they could be using these tapes on the internet invading my privacy!!!!
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Re: My neighbors are spying on us with wireless re
Ron,
I'am in a similar circumstance, there is a group of people stalking and harrassing me, they claim that they have something that can hear what I"m thinking, that they can see me where ever i go. They say things like *quite evesdropping* and my 4 year old son says evesdropping all the time, my mom has even heard them in my house. They have the neighbors harrassing me all the damn time and they are making up horrible lies about me like I"m a child abuser, which trust me I'am not, I pride myself in taking care of my children. I don't know what to do either, I"m 6mths pregant and so far they have been stalking and harrassing me for an entire year, and they know I'm pregnant. I almost lost my baby a few months ago because of these people.
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Neighbors videotaping
I have a neighbor that has a surviellance camera pointed right at my house. I live in Georgia and would like to find out if this legal? If this is not legal they might as well stick a camera in my living room for their enjoyment! I am very angry about this and they are very retalient neighbors! Help me find something on this. Where is my privacy in my own home and on my own property.
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We all seem to be in the same boat Lets do some th
We ,Like all of you have A--holes for neighbors!Lets start petition & send it to all of our Congressman & Senators By Mail & e-mail & phone calls Daily until we get a response 2008 is an election year so they will be trying to hear and do things to get elected. My gramar skills suck if any of you are educatated in this area and are willing to write a petition I will do my best to share it and get it signed Reading all of your comments makes me know we are not alone!!!!
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Re: Malicious act of systematic harassment and int
Sue them for invasion of privacy, if that does work, then do the same thing back to them.
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Re: Re: Malicious act of systematic harassment and
Let me give you a point of view from one (myself) who was advised TO install security cameras/videotape. I moved to a sleepy unicoporated community in upstate South Carolina from a Columbia neighborhood that was wracked with vice and violence about three years ago. For the first year, things were tough financially, but relatively peaceful. I had been warned that the neighbors on one side of me had an abusive father and on the other side, was quite frankly, a pair of weirdos (with a history of drug use and abuse).
Video security cameras were installed to monitor my porch and my backyard after I was called to 1)Witness against the abusive father/mother in a case of extreme animal neglect.(An injured dog was left outside IN the heat for four days with the flesh ripped off one rear leg..It eventually crawled onto my porch on its own..These people have LOT's of money btw!) I was forced to get involved and due to threats of physical violence, continued harrassment, and the cops doing nothing, I found the cameras did the trick. Finally, DSS took notice, because as you know, those who would abuse/neglect innocent animals do the same to people. My cameras audio capabilities, although the lenses are pointed at my yard, have enough sensitivity to "record" any outbursts by this father OR mother and DSS encouraged me to record INCIDENTS (notice not all the time). In addition to this, some other neighbors, concerned for this familie's children as well as their own, FINALLY found the courage to start reporting to DSS and the cops. Again, these were NOT "Get your A** in the house Yungin'" stuff but violent outburts toward children and pet by a former football player. IN fact, one pair of Highway Patrolmen, one of who's grandparents live nearby, told me they'd WELCOME a "call".
The cameras being "ready" to record, have been, in my belief, the catalyst for change. The outbursts, atleast outside have stopped. The boy's coach got involved, and being a big man himself, read "DAD" the riot act I'm told.
All of this being taken into consideration, the 50 bucks I spent for a simple "wired" video system to WATCH for intrusion against me, my property,and my pets has worked!
NOW, unfortunately, the weirdo druggie neighbors are harrassing/stalking me because, well, that's what they apparently do to people who they just decide they don't like. It's gotten pretty serious of late, with me not having lights thrown on me when I walk my dogs in my own backyard at night, to being tailgated by his large truck on the public roads. I've filed a "stay away" (from property) order with the local Sherrif's dept. I have incident reports of having been cussed out in my own front yard for simply raising the hood of my car at 9am in the morning to adjust the idle (It's a diesel Mercedes, not that noisy) YET I've never called on these people when they party all night. (That's changing). I have called on the husband jumping in an out behind bushs with a pellet gun at 3:30am while he shot at passing animals. (He's also shot into a neighbor's yard at their cat, the shot richocheting(sp) and hitting their young daughter. The redneck duffuss father of that child just wanted to fight. "Don't believe in callin' no law" It wouldn't have been that with MY kid I'm telling you!
Reports of the guy having a gun (he's a fellon) and shooting between houses at dogs with a 22 rifle fleeing his yard (killing one ole lady's lifelong pet who accidentally got out..The dog killed wasn't in his yard at the time) The neighbors say they call the cops, but nothing is ever done. I found that the deputies to indeed be negligently lax BUT that didn't and won't stop me...When the husband started to follow me around, right on my bumper, I filed incident reports. County didn't take them seriously, but a small town nearby did. I called SC Law Enforecement and the ATF. BOTH have taken it seriously. I now have enough evidence via calls and written incident reports to atleast file a request for a restraining order. AND yes, I'm adding some more cheapo cameras to the other side of my house. Not pointed at this guy, but the city street in front of my house, and in strategic locations around MY yard, in case I need proof if one of my dogs is hurt or killed (OR these duffuses think it's all a joke and trespass for the helluva' it).
Oh yea, a call to the local authorities saying if this guy starts shooting at anything between the houses real or imaginary, will be returned in "Self Defense" FINALLYn has the cops doing THEIR job of getting these public menances out of everyone's lives and OFF our streets.
Video evidence is all one needs. Sorry about the long stories folks BUT there is a right and a WRONG way to do surveillance. In the case of the cameras pointed at YOU, "illegal surveillance" is the key word in other words, Video Peeping Tom.
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neighbors invading privacy
I live in an aparment building and I do belive that my privacy as well as others are being invaded. I am followed as I go to the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and living room, I can hear them above me as I go in and out of my apartment. They constanly harrass and taunt me in my own apartment. I have mentioned this to the landlord and she has done nothing. I belives she knows too. This has kept me having anxiety attacks and looking for another place. I would love advice on what to do. I am trying to find another place soon , even if its at a shelter just to leave this place.
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Re: I'm fed up - are you?
Dave,
Like you, I am fed up too. My neighbors (if you can call them that) have surveillance cameras mounted on every side of their house, and those are the ones that we can see! They are double income, no kids in a planned community full of young families on 1/4 - 1/3 acre lots. While I have no solid proof, I also suspect that they have video AND audio capability. I agree that security is one thing, but when their cameras cross boundary lines I feel that it is another matter. We've had a long standing feud going with these people over our two dogs (long story, but suffice to say that I tried every means necessary (short of civil suit) to stop them from harassing us and our dogs. Thankfully, that harassment has stopped as best we can tell. Now there's still the issue of the video cameras monitoring our every move while we are just living our lives and going about our daily routines. Like the other postings I've read, the cameras are aimed across the street, affecting three neighbors; they are mounted on either side of their house affecting our house and the neighbor on the other side. We all have young children and it is very upsetting that this is even happening at all. I guess you could say that they are equal opportunity voyeurs. Well, almost. They have two obvious cameras mounted and facing toward our property. In addition, they have two very small, wireless cameras facing our house. That's four cameras just on us. These cameras potentially cover our front side yard, our back yard, and our deck. I'm fairly certain that I witnessed myself and my daughter and her friend (age 9) in my own driveway as early as yesterday evening. I had been home for less than 30 minutes. How did I witness this? You see, they have the monitoring TV located in an upstairs bedroom where they freely leave the blinds open. Although the visual was from a short distance, there were other telling tale signs that this is what happened. Again, like other positings, this sounds completely paranoid and crazy, but not so. I am definitely interested in finding out if there are any laws covering this type of surveillance. At a minimum, I would think that this not only is an invasion of privacy, but an infringement of our Fourth Amendment rights. I am on board with any movement or consortium to prevent this kind of harassment, invasion of privacy, and emotional torment.
P.S. While I like and get along with all the other neighbors who are also affected by this, they remain apathetic to the whole situation.
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Re: stalking neighbors
I have a similar situation, of a neighbor spying on us with 4 wireless cameras trained on our yard. Today, I plugged up an old baby monitor to my tv and before hooking up cameras, guess what I saw? Every view from each camera THEY have. Now, I can see what they're looking at! I'm tempted to put my cameras on their yard and when they watch their own monitor, they'd see THEIR yard, but not know where the pic is coming from...or I might just aim it right back into one of their cameras, but for now, I'm just going to watch my yard via their cameras. (Perhaps I should thank them, as I no longer have to mount cameras!)
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neighbor continues harassment aft 7 years with las
It is amazing how much people get away with. Just 15 minutes ago my neighbor (borders my 2.5 acres) had his light on my house, sometimes he wakes me up in the middle of the night or as he has done in the past harasses me with it while I'm outside on my property. He has also taken to harassing a female neighbor who was a witness in one of my hearings. It takes the police 45 minutes to answer any calls here and no one takes it seriously. This is nothing compared to what he has done in the past. Recently I picked up a pair of what I believe are his eyeglasses on my property. He has trespassed numerous times also has been cited for vandalism. I'm a single female property owner. He has also had hearings regarding his behavior at work. The most frustrating part of this is that my female neighbor is afraid and doesn't want to call--she calls me now. After documenting and calling police and hearings he still continues. I stopped calling the police for the last year.
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"illegal surveillance"
Can't you just get a laser pointer and point it at the camera?
Or on the motion activated cameras, put a motorized device in its field of vision to keep triggering the sensor?
I starting searching about rights and privacy because I constantly find food objects in my pool (funny I know) and I've had enough. I want to have video recording to catch these people but not at the expense of invasion of others personal privacy. What a dilemma.
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Cause Stalking by David Lawson
Welcome to the creepy world of extremists.
See David Lawsons book Cause Stalking
You will become aware, of how serious this really is.
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Re: stalking neighbors
Is there a law?
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i have a neighbor that has a night vision camera on me
i feel like i have no privacy
he is a weird man
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The same thing has been happing to be.
I called the Police.I found a hole in the top of the cieling of where we would take a shower or bath.They have been stealing from me.I'm on disability though.And I'm afraid of them harming me at this point.I have no reason to be under survalance.I never been in trouble.I think they don't want me moving in . Because I have a disability.
It is getting me very upset.
Anita Obertubbesing
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People Next Door
I wouldn't call them neighbors.This guy is an Volunteer Fireman for Seaside Heights,Nj.And Is known that I have not been feeling well.He has dug tunnels under my house.,taped,Wire taped everthing.Has put Cameras in our house .And My daughters Grandmother was sick for a month and Passed away we had to take care of that.
But this guy and his family and acomplices has ransacked thehouse then took pictures,robbed us blind.We don't have nothing.He took cans of change of peeies I saved.But I'm putting this on here because I'm an Epileptic and do take medication.I haven't been able to eat for a couple weeks because of it.I have the flu.And if something happens to me I want it to be out there so he does not get away with it.The Cops will not do anything.
Anita Obertubbesing
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It don't seem To Stop!
I have a 26 year old Daughter and me alone at night.I think he is seriously tryinh to do some kind of harm.If he wants me not to be here because of a disabilitie which is pretty much o.k.,He is making it alittle worse now.I never though some one could invade your home with getting help from the Police.The Block I'm on is George Road in Toms River.A while ag
o a Police Offer Killed 2 Families and kept doing the same thing.And the Police shrugged it off as crazy stuff.This guy may be trying to rape my daughter.He is olderI want him to stay away from us.
Anita Obertubbesing
I'm afraid of this Man harming me or my Daughter.
Anita Obertubbesing
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Re: Re: I'm fed up - are you?
What have you done about camera?. My neighbor installed a camera late last year which was fixed on her property entrance only. The angle has now been changed to view our private road, and property over which she has an easement for ingress, egress only. I hate the idea of being viewed on my own property when I am coming and going. I don't like cameras at all.
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LOOK INTO EVESDROPPING LAWS IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO RECORD CONVERSATIONS
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Stalking Neighbor
I have recently found that my neighbor downstairs is stalking me and has setup infra red cameras in my house and even has them outside on the property which he has not posted saying that there is serveilance - this guy is a creep and he sits home all day and does nothing , this guy is also into other men and whats worse is my wife is in on this also because she knows where the cameras are in exchange for letting this creep see in our house. I have called the police but they won't do anything - this has me so furious I can't even go to work or have a normal life and am considering a divorce with a very long travel distance. I also think my car and my phone is being tracked , I mean if someone is going to pry into your life - why only go half way especially if you're already vulnerable. I suspect my wife of communicating with this guy but she denies any of it. Makes me think why she took my hand in marriage.
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Re: neighbors with survillence camera on my hous
put a video camera pointing at them thats what i did and they did not like it thats all you can do
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Re: Re: stalking neighbors
I know of a similar situation. I would like to know exactly what you mean by a baby monitor.I would like to have them veiw their own house and not mine. Can you please explain this in more detail for me for I am on my last nerve with them.If you could please email me at roseafrankl@aol.com it would be greatly appreciated.
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Big Brother IS next door, in Mapleton, ND
Watch out Meth cookers, law enforcement HAS MOved INTO SMALL TOWN, USA to keep look-out for the manufacturers of methamophetamines. After ordering the diet drug "phentermine" for 10 years, I, too, have been under the watchful eye of big brother and wonder why they've not arrested me for this. Most of the pharmacies I've ordered from online eventually have been closed (or reopened under another name) however, after writing the ND Attorney General and finding out that it's against the STATE AND FEDERAL law to order these on the internet, I've decided I'd rather be fat and lay around then sit in jail. Funniest thing of all, when I found three marijuana plants growing in different places in my yard, and my husband is still convicned that it was a "birdie" that dropped the three seeds and they began to grow. I pulled them and mowed over them and threw them in the trash. Good luck meth makers! watch out, you may be under the watchful eye of law enforcement.
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Re: I'm fed up - are you?
My neighbor just did this today....I flashed my breasts at the camera then put a 6x6 piece of wood on a long 2x4 and placed it in my property 6 inches in front of the camera...The police are on their way...I will find out in about 10 minutes if it is illegal to bare yourself on your own private property that is surrounded by 7 feet fences...He put the camera 10 feet in the air, over the fence..Will post back after the police leave and I talk to them...(or get arrested for indecent exposure...LOL
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noisy neighbors/privacy law
My neighbors live at 789 west 80 street in hialeah florida
they put up secturty cameras that also show my back yard and front yard. I feel my privacy has been invaded.
I am think about sueing them for evaiding my privacy.
please give me your in put. always,sunni
the guy with the camers is
hector Laborde
786-222-8959
786-597-8993 thoses are his phone number.........
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noisy neighbors/privacy law
My neighbors live at 789 west 80 street in hialeah florida
they put up secturty cameras that also show my back yard and front yard. I feel my privacy has been invaded.
I am think about sueing them for evaiding my privacy.
please give me your in put. always,sunni
the guy with the camers is
hector Laborde
786-222-8959
786-597-8993 thoses are his phone number.........
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noisy neighbors/privacy law
My neighbors live at 789 west 80 street in hialeah florida
they put up secturty cameras that also show my back yard and front yard. I feel my privacy has been invaded.
I am think about sueing them for evaiding my privacy.
please give me your in put. always,sunni
the guy with the camers is
hector Laborde
786-222-8959
786-597-8993 thoses are his phone number.........
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Re: neighbors with survillence camera on my hous
I have the same problem there is a syco across the street with 8 camera's pointed at our house we have recently put up a privacy fence and are looking into taking legal action. but have not yet found any relief in just calling the cops infact, my husband was told if he keeps calling them that they will take "HIM" to jail on the next call!!!! wtf???? I don't get it. have you got any help I think we are as desperate at you are don't you wish some people would GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!
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Small Potatoes
i know this may seem like small potatoes, but we have a neighbor who watches us constantly, and does a phone tree around our community to tell people what we have been up to. We have a truck parked in teh community parking lot and the neighbors don't think it should be there, so they have started putting old leaves and branches in teh back and putting stones in front of and behind the tires to see if we move the truck daily. It's really unnerving to think she is watching us so closely she can tell the neighbors what time we turn out the lights, and if we were up during the night. Are there any laws against this. I know it is small potatoes compared to have people videotaping our home, but I am just looking for advise.
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My next door neighbor is always watching us.
This is an outrage. I had to call the police on our neighbors for taking my picture all the time. I took them to court for a peace order in an act of privacy infringement. Afterwards, they installed a camera surveillance system on the side of their house to watch me and my son at all times. We have no privacy. The local police say they cannot do anything about it and are influence by the fact that the husband is a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy. I think there should be a law using a security camera system to watch my yard. I am a single mother, whom that man loves to watch me. He told the Judge that it was to protect them from me breaking into their home. Give me a break. If that is true then they should have it on their property to watch their windows and doors. Is there a law against this? Please respond. Enough is enough! E-mail me at: est1001spirit@hotmail.com
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My next door neighbor is always watching us.
This is an outrage. I had to call the police on our neighbors for taking my picture all the time. I took them to court for a peace order in an act of privacy infringement. Afterwards, they installed a camera surveillance system on the side of their house to watch me and my son at all times. We have no privacy. The local police say they cannot do anything about it and are influence by the fact that the husband is a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy. I think there should be a law using a security camera system to watch my yard. I am a single mother, whom that man loves to watch me. He told the Judge that it was to protect them from me breaking into their home. Give me a break. If that is true then they should have it on their property to watch their windows and doors. Is there a law against this? Please respond. Enough is enough! E-mail me at: est1001spirit@hotmail.com
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I suspect that my neighbour is using video surveillance too. This is so crazy, that I can't even garden in my own backyard or swim without being watched. This makes me so uncomfortable. If my suspicions will come true, my husband will confront him and we will call police. If they don't help, we will install cameras on them and see how they will like it.
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Re: neighbors with survillence camera on my hous
What we as a people need to do is fight this. Petitions, A web site to help fight these ignorant, evil people, who have no lives of their own. In schools in Canada there is a no bullying policy. Well when the hell is the Bullying going to stop? Can someone answer that. I have been continuously Harassed, My Neighbors older 43 years old, his son went after my children 6 and 12 years old yelling profanities and threatening to break my children s arms, When does it stop, when do people have rights to privacy and the right to enjoy their daily lives. I'll tell you when, when a parent finally snaps because of video tapeing their children and someone get seriously hurt or killed. Thats when it will stop, and by that time its too late. I would like to know when people will just fight back and start trying to do something about it. Don't we pay our taxes, don't we make our government??? Since when are we not heard, we are heard only when we make it a point to be heard.... Any one interested in trying to do something about this insanity please contact me>>>
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Re: Re: stalking neighbors
does anyon know if my landlord is responsiable. my nuttiesy neighbor has cameras pointed at my home. should my ll ensure my priviously? cand i wue them both. this is driveing me to live in the dark, blinds down, afraod tp water my roses.
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Re: stalking neighbors
I have the same problem. I was just looking on the PC to find a answer to nieghbors that have security cameras pointed at my doors, windows (bedroom) front and back yard for the purpose of spying on me and nothing to do with securing thier property.
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Landlord&Tenant's Surveillance
I am tormented everyday for the illegal viewing,and taping of my life. I don't consider this to be my life anymore. What life I once did have has been made into and sold as pornographic videos. I've asked for help from everyone,police,f.b.i.,supposed friends,etc.I wish someone would help to put these people in prison.
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Crazy neighbors
My wife and I have 2 crazy neighbors. The mother lives on one side of us and the daughter lives on the other side of us. They have made up many, many untruths about me. They have called the police on me 10 times and have spread untruths to my other neighbors! Had lawyers send me letters! They are a nightmare! I pleaded to the police that I have done nothing wrong to deserve this treatment! They suggested I mount security cameras in my trouble areas. So, i did. Within 3 days after mounting the cameras the mother called the police with more false reports about me. This time she was screwed! I played back the video and proved my she was telling many untruths about me. The police were shocked! Then, 30 days after I mounted cameras, one of the cameras in our back-yard caught the daughter spraying our trees, flowers, and bushes with weed poison. Then, she sprayed some of her own small trees and called the police and said, I had been spraying and sprayed her trees. Again, video evidence was on my side! That happened in July of 2008. I have had no trouble from them since! Thank God! My opinion is sometimes video evidence is needed to clear your name, as in my case. Now, someone pointing cameras at someone else house, property, for no reason what-so-ever is another story.
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Private Investigators as neighbours
I was in a T-Bone car accident and now I have my neighbours watching my house 24/7 I think they maybe Private Investigators but not sure. What can I do to stop them from following me at the park and watching my every move. I cannot get better with them constantly around and they make it pretty obvious sometimes.
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Dittos
I have an aunt that has some crackhead neighbors. my aunt had put up a video camera and tried to turn in the neighbors with the video evidence of them MAKING and using the drugs. The case was denied because her "video evidence" is recording the neighbors property, this yes, is an "invasion of privacy". The only way you can even produce evidence of ANYTHING is when its on your own property or if there is reasonable cause by the police department with search and seizer. No matter what your neighbors are doing, they have the right to privacy. If you see someone murdered or raped, that's a whole different story. If the neighbor is a peeping tom or just an annoyance with "telling you they have proof of your kids blowing stuff up in your backyard, you have the upper hand because its only incriminating evidence to your neighbor, not you. Its all about the "Video Angle". You are allowed to record everything that happens withing your property and you are able to use that as legal say. BUT, if you are angled outside your property line, you can not use this as any evidence until there is reasonable cause by the police, and even then its up to the court if they want to accept it as evidence. Keep in mind, this is Colorado i'm talking about.
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Re: neighbors invading privacy
i am going thru the same thing. i am the one upstairs. somehow they are projecting a noise up to my wall and they try to wake me up. i think it is several mexican families living in the same apartment downstairs. it is so miserable.
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neighbors invading privacy
I have the same problems with my neighbors. Some crazy woman moved across the street with her daughter who has bullied my daughter all year all school. First, she just watched us with binoculars, but when I complained to the apartment manger and called the police, I was told that if you have your windows open or are outside you forfeit your right to privacy according to the law. After time went by, they began spreading untrue rumors about me, and told people in detail how many times she changed her clothes each day, and what outfit she put on when she was planning what to wear to school the next day. They knew what we ate each night at supper, and went as far as trying to have me arrested for carrying “strange bottles” to my apartment all the time. I was buying Gatorade. When I put aluminum foil over all my windows, she began threatening us. We were granted a temporary restraining order.
In some states, stalking is illegal, but you have to have a lot of evidence to prove it. You have to document everything. Take pictures. Install your own cameras. Invite people over, a lot of people. Show them what is going on so you have witnesses. The police will not do anything unless you have proof, and even then
its hard to get them to do much unless there have been threats or someone gets hurt. It is sad, but that’s how it works here. You are better off hiring an attorney or talking to the prosecutor in your county. They can tell you what the laws are, and give you information on how to protect yourself. Don’t lose your temper around anyone. They will try to make it look like you’re crazy and paranoid. That’s what happened to me at first.
When you report invasion of privacy issues you have to be careful about how you word things. Most people will think your crazy, but if you tell them what you have seen, and have a picture and/or witness to back you up it helps. Document what is happening for a while. There are devises you can buy online and at radio shack that can block surveillance. There are devises that detect wireless and wired bugs, phone taps, etc. There are also things called jammers that disable wireless spy equipment.
Have fun with them. My lawyer at one point told me to buy poster board, draw hands with middle fingers sticking up, and hang them in the windows. One of my friends told me to scratch my butt and smell my hands constantly. Do crazy things that will get them talking about things are have no legal right to see. Get them to tell on themselves.
Hiring a private investigator is an option too.
I am still fighting this mess, but I finally have enough people listening to me and helping me, so hopefully this spying/stalking mess will be over soon.
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Re: My neighbors are spying on us with wireless rermot
take a mirror out on a sunny day and sit there with the sun shining right in the cameras, moving it at different intervals. it pisses them off and they cant see a thing.... just a suggestion
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Re: I'm fed up - are you?
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All o y'all got nothing compared to me. I got neighbors doin shit to me that would shock you.
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Re: Re: stalking neighbors
I believe I know who you are Bird. My cameras do not work and have not worked since the painters were here and turned the cameras off the direction I originally had them. My VCR recorder short-circuited from the poor wiring. I have not had the money to fix this problem. A new VCR recorder for my cameras costs approx. $500.00. The cameras were installed by workers from the top of my roof which I cannot reach, therefore they have remained in that position. I have told you many times about this, and you still seem to be paranoid that I have an interest in you, your wife and your property. I HAVE NO INTEREST IN YOU AT ALL. I RESPECT OTHER'S PRIVACY AT ALL TIMES. I EVEN KEEP MY SHUTTERS UPSTAIRS SHUT AT ALL TIMES TO GIVE YOU YOUR BACKYARD PRIVACY. I must say, though, myself and my daughter, and my friends have caught you watching us through your windows, my daughter when sunbathing in the backyard is one of the many times you have been caught inappropriately spying on us and eavesdropping as well. Your long-term unemployment of 15 years where you do mostly nothing inside your home probably has something to do with this. Your paranoia is self-projected from your own guilt and inappropriateness.
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Re: My next door neighbor is always watching us.
Have cameras installed on your property pointing at they're property. Install discreetly.Make sure he is not aware of the install. I am sure you will find him using more than his cameras to watch you. If you catch him doing the "peeping tom" or other inappropriateness, then you can use the law against him.
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Re: My neighbors are spying on us with wireless rermot
At this point, I would hire a private investigator, it may be expensive, but you may be able to find a new grad from a PI program. They will have the necessary tools to prove what your neighbors are doing. Prosecute them!
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Re: We all seem to be in the same boat Lets do some th
So....wheres the petition?? If there is a lawyer out there reading any of this.........DO SOMETHING.
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