House Vandalized

[mrmike1964]

I'm sorry to hear that this happened. Maybe a stun gun and a spear battery would be the best thing if you catch them coming back! Light there asses up good! I would hold the trigger on the stun gun till I had to replace the battery or they started to smoke!

[jgerhard]

I've had my apartment broken into when I was in my 20's, it ruins your feeling about being home.

Sorry you and your family is going through this.  Don't pull your gun in this situation, its not worth it.  The partial match, car description, and locale will probably end of catching them if the police have time to follow up on your report, or if the punks keep it up.

[BeerIAm]

Bummer man.  Sorry to see this.  I'm down in Smyrna if you need any help painting or whooping @ss.

If you haven't already might be worth installing an motion light outside the house as well.

[prjohnson]

They spray painted the same stuff on a privacy fence, along with a stop & speed limit sign in a different part of the neighborhood. Every member of the HOA got an email regarding this last night. There's a lot of folks on there to keep an eye out for suspicious activity. I installed a camera with motion detection, so any movement will send me an email. So far I've gotten pictures of the neighbors dog shitting in my yard, a couple cats & what I think might be a coyote. The detective called yesterday evening for the tag/make model of the car. Hopefully I'll have some good updates to share soon.

I've just got to figure out how to get that cam to quit giving me false alarms. It picks up when the lady across from me turns on her porch light. I swear she's out there smoking every hour on the dot until 1 A.M.

[Matt]

They spray painted the same stuff on a privacy fence, along with a stop & speed limit sign in a different part of the neighborhood. Every member of the HOA got an email regarding this last night. There's a lot of folks on there to keep an eye out for suspicious activity. I installed a camera with motion detection, so any movement will send me an email. So far I've gotten pictures of the neighbors dog shitting in my yard, a couple cats & what I think might be a coyote. The detective called yesterday evening for the tag/make model of the car. Hopefully I'll have some good updates to share soon.

I've just got to figure out how to get that cam to quit giving me false alarms. It picks up when the lady across from me turns on her porch light. I swear she's out there smoking every hour on the dot until 1 A.M.

What kind of camera did you get? Got any links?

[clark123456]

Yep, I want that camera!

[prjohnson]

http://foscam.us/products.html

This is the exact one I bought off a friend for 30 bucks. It's an indoor camera, but I was able to position it at a window that gives me a pretty good view of most of the front yard.

http://www.amazon.com/Foscam-FI9821W-Indoor-Wireless-Camera/dp/B00AJWK5WW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392816416&sr=8-1&keywords=Foscam+F9821W

I'm looking for a permanent solution for a few outdoor cams, but we're putting out house on the market in April (not because of this), So I really don't want to spend a lot of money on one since I'll likely just let it go with the house.

[frenchlayer]

I have a nightowldvr system on my house, currently at 12 cameras but can go to 16. Has a huge hd, so it records everything. I can specify zones where I don't want motion triggers, such as a neighbors house. I can view all cameras remotely on my phone, iPad, or computer. Works great. I did bust he mail lady smashing into my trash can, and got footage of the neighbor driving her car into my neighbors pool. All cameras are wired and I have 1 pan and tilt cam as well on an automatic sweep


Sent from the ether

[jgerhard]

and got footage of the neighbor driving her car into my neighbors pool

Do tell!

[clark123456]

Damn, Josh, that is bad ass.  I'm too lazy and too fat to wire everything, but a few cameras would be nice to have.  Did you outsource the installation?  If so, what is a rough dollar amount for that setup, including installation?

[frenchlayer]

As for the old lady and pool, here is the video from that. Luckily her door was open or she would have died. Car sunk quick. This was the same day that white water caught fire a few years ago. Neighbors got a new pool. Luckily my wife was not there as she was supposed to be in the pool that day, but was home taking care of me after i crushed my shoulder on a dirt bike incident. Even more amazon, the lady missed the house and a tree by inches on both sides, i couldn't do that sober in reverse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5HH3AvS0NA


I started with an old computer adding 2, 4 port dvr cards.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-PCI-DVR-4CH-Channel-Security-Camera-Video-Capture-Card-/111168555248?pt=US_Surveillance_Digital_Video_Recorders_Cards&hash=item19e22988f0

Had 8 cameras running on that system, but the footage was laggy and i wasn't very happy with the interface. Just like the video in the video above.

I ran those cameras with the cheap cables and power supplies that they came with. Video quality was ok, mainly due to the crappy cables carrying the signal, plus i had 8 power supplies to contend with.

Finally I got a night owl dedicated dvr system. Originally these were very expensive, but came down in price and quality went up big time. The one i purchased is similar to this newer unit.

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Owl-Security-LTE-DVR16-16-Channel/dp/B009KG8Q1K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1392827432&sr=8-3&keywords=Night+Owl+Dvr

I just made sure it had real time video, and a hard drive installed. It kind of acts like its own server, so it does it all, and like I said, I can view everything remotely, and even set up email, to get notified of any activity.

I purchased siamese cable,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-BLACK-1000FT-BULK-RG59-SIAMESE-CABLE-20AWG-18-2-CCTV-SECURITY-CAMERA-WIRE-/121037255411?pt=US_Surveillance_Cables_Adapters_Connectors&hash=item1c2e61f2f3

Stay away from using cable like this, the video quality really does suffer
http://www.ebay.com/itm/100ft-CCTV-Siamese-Security-Camera-Video-Power-BNC-RCA-Cable-with-Connector-/370996006628?pt=US_Surveillance_Cables_Adapters_Connectors&hash=item566115cee4


connectors, to connect the cable to the camera and to the dvr (you need two for each camera line)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BNC-Male-to-RCA-Female-Connector-for-CCTV-Siamese-cable-wholesale-lots-lot-/181246292223?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item2a331ef0ff

 and started getting higher quality cameras off of Ebay, Sony 1/3 ccd, night vision, etc.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW700TVL-Sony-Effio-OSD-195ft-Outdoor-Bullet-Surveillance-CCTV-Security-Camera-/291002802017?pt=US_Security_Cameras&hash=item43c11e5f61

My neighbor is good with wiring and I learned how to solder really well during this project.
 Instead of using individual camera power supplies, i picked up a 16 bank power supply box, so I only have one plug into the house, and can wire each camera to the box instead of separately. Much nicer and cleaner install.

Similar to this, i got it on ebay pretty cheap

http://www.ebay.com/itm/16-Channel-CCTV-Security-Camera-Power-Supply-Box-12-V-DC-16-CH-New-/120980671332?pt=US_Surveillance_Cables_Adapters_Connectors&hash=item1c2b028b64

I bought mine used, its a lil dented, but does the job and i maybe paid $16 for it.

It is pretty easy to do. You can add the dvd, and a camera or two easily, then expand as needed.

 It took a little trial and error to figure out where I wanted to place the cameras, but I now have every angle of the outside, including the front door covered.

My main reason for doing this is that my office is in the basement with no windows, and I get a lot of deliveries for work, so I wanted to see when the delivery guy was here.

Then we had some druggies stealing christmas packages from houses during the season, so that bolstered my reasoning. I have room for 4 more cameras, might do one or two in the kitchen to watch the dogs while I am out.

I am lazy and fat too, but got this one done //BEER//

[jgerhard]

wow, did it damage the pool concrete and all, how was the car extracted?

Nice setup...