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tooki:
I’m totally in favor of dash cams, and IMHO they should carve an exception into the law about using them, as they have such a clear, undeniable benefit in accident reconstruction. I suppose I’d be  ok with there being restrictions on how one publishes the footage, such as blurring out faces and plates, or not being allowed to put it on YouTube and such.

If I owned a car, I’d almost certainly get a dash cam.
Bud:
OP you need to clean your gutter, seems to be heavily clogged right at the downspout connection. ???
nctnico:

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--- Quote from: james_s on October 29, 2019, 05:33:24 am ---If this is too far off topic please feel free to delete it but I'm hoping with enough eyeballs someone out there can identify the make, model and possibly even year of the car that stops at the end of my driveway before a blonde girl gets out, runs up and snatches the mail right off my porch then hops into the car which drives off before her foot is even off the ground. I have filed a report with the local sheriff and am going to provide any additional information I can get.

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For starters you have to move your camera so it catches the face of anyone entering your property.

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There are physical constraints on where I can place cameras and everything is a compromise. I have others but this one happened to capture the best view.

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A video doorbell is a good solution. The better ones have wide angle lenses, night vision and motion activated recording. Hook it up to a VOIP connection and you can get a (video) call if someone is at the door while you are away and talk to the person.
james_s:
I'll try to get to everything in one go here.

I cleaned the gutters and swept the roof off 3 days ago, it's October in the Northwest and the maple trees are shedding like crazy, it's a futile battle until they're finished, I'll clean them out again next weekend.

That's the annoying thing, I *have* a secure locking mailbox out by the street, but for reasons that are beyond me the mailman left all my mail right there on the porch when he delivered the pack of boxes (which are free so whatever) and picked up the two outgoing parcels I had stashed back in the corner out of sight. I've had many dozens of parcels sit on my porch and I have *never* had something stolen until now. I'm just glad they stole the stuff they did, and not the $350 worth of goods I'd left out there since the night before for the mailman to pick up. I did examine the footage from earlier to verify that those were picked up properly and not stolen.

I have thought about placing another camera down near the edge of my property looking up the street. I don't know whether that's technically legal here or not but frankly I don't care, I've never heard of anyone being charged for such a thing and the courts have well established that there is no right to privacy out in public. I'm perfectly free to walk down the street anywhere in the country, camera in hand taking photos and videos of anyone and anything I want, I don't see how a camera on my property looking out into the street is any different. If criminals were not roaming around victimizing innocent people, there would be no need for cameras in the first place but here we are. I have no interest in spying on my neighbors, the only time I ever even check my cameras is when I'm expecting a package or an incident occurs, usually it's a mole ripping up the back yard or a raccoon getting into the trash can.

A video doorbell would not have helped here, my doorbell button is on the side facing across the porch and the thief covered her face. I have clear video of her walking up the driveway which would have captured her face but it didn't because it was covered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYOgp78lZPo&feature=youtu.be

The worst outcome from all of this is that I suddenly no longer feel safe having packages delivered to my porch when I'm not home, and that has never been a problem before. Of course usually the delivery person has the sense to not leave something leaning right against the front door in plain sight, that is when they manage to deliver it to the right house and not the next street over or the place next door.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: nctnico on October 29, 2019, 05:46:35 pm ---A video doorbell is a good solution. The better ones have wide angle lenses, night vision and motion activated recording. Hook it up to a VOIP connection and you can get a (video) call if someone is at the door while you are away and talk to the person.

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Video doorbells are a privacy nightmare and that's even before taking the proprietary cloud situation into account.
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