Postby KiloBravo » Sun Aug 31, 2008 4:21 am
Most if not all CCTVs are IR capable ( all 4 of the "standard" cameras that came with the recorder are IR capable and can see details pretty good ( plus motion sensing lights helps a lot anyway ) I did buy an extra camera that is HD and IR that is aimed at the street ( it's a cul-de-sac so we keep a tight lid on who comes and goes ) even the wireless cameras are IR, on the flip side since there are so many houses going into escrow etc. so many people have moved here, including the bad guys ( as in like that SWAT officer that was killed 4 blocks from here this year ) houses typically dont have too many rules like apartments do , so they moved out here , and guess what ? their rivals ( possibly feeling the impact of absurd gas prices, decided to move somewhere close so they can drive-by-carpool to their rival's new house ) we've reinstituted the neighborhood watch, no tags, no loitering, no midnight music bumping, no car with loud music cruising, nothing dumb is tolerated on my watch. oh and I just bought a sweet M1A1 carbine for 200 bucks at Big 5 near topanga while shopping for exercise equipment ! ( and a Mossberg shotgun for 300 bucks to go with it ) :shock:
btw when some punks broke into my truck to steal my GPS unit ( ironically after having called the GPS manufacturer they said they don't track their own units even upon request , I mean WTF it's a GPS ! ) I caught them on the secondary camera set, gave it to the police, but since there was no 'death' or bodily harm involved they had the typical red tape ... so I decided to find the suspect vehicle on my own using a printout of the plate number and vehicle features .... it turns out it's the same runts that stole the honda the month before ( all the idiots took was the car stereo, left the car a few blocks away, was towed, the towing fee costs more than the stupid stereo ! ) I pulled up to their place, rang the doorbell, out comes the mom all suprised I showed her the video of both her kids, in her honda minivan with the license plate shot, driving right up next to the truck, getting out wearing a raincoat ( which she found still in the minivan ) breaking my driver side window, leaving some fingerprints on the A-frame pillar by the side mirror, grabbing my GPS unit ( with password ) and making off towards the general direction of their home, since this occurred at around 4 am that morning, the runts where asleep ( 16 year old & 14 year old brothers ) the mom drags them downstairs, I identify the younger one as the one that broke my window, I tell them to compensate for the damages & to go discipline the bastards, the dad comes home, tells me to go 'take a hike, those aren't my kids in that video' and launches into some sort of tyrade about "asians in the neighborhood bringing down the value of the place" I um ( I'm not proud of this ) launch myself at the bastard and proceed to innumerate the many things WHY I should be ***** and he should be shutting all while I was giving him some new facial features. um and that's how I ended up in a holding facility ( fancy name for jail ) for 1 night , all charges have been dropped against me, after they decided to settle and call it quits ( I'll leave it to your imagination who I called with that 1 phone call from the west hills station ) :twisted:
-Trust me with your life, not your money or your wife !