Looks like you have this covered from the tech side, but I’d like to throw out there that any decent digital camera can take video footage. My Kodak EasyShare 6330 can record five minutes of Quicktime on a 32 MB card. If that’s enough time to cover a bathroom break, you could use your own or borrow someone’s. Most cameras would have a playback option as well, so as soon as you returned, you could watch the video.
Any news yet? Did the alarm go off? Did she pee her pants from being startled half to death? Was there public humiliation? Whodunit?
I am slow on the ball, sorry folks. We needed a philip head screwdriver to get the device open, so I have to wait until tomorrow to set my trap.
Meanwhile I have been keeping my real meds in my pocket. Heh, today I had a couple of my anti-depressants in there and one was missing. Can you believe that? I hope she takes it and it makes her sick.
I was going to suggest the use of Fluorescent Thief Detection Powder
OMG! NO! What the heck are you thinking of, poisoning her? Yeah, she shouldn’t be stealing medicine from someone else, but YOU set a trap for her, knowing she’d steal the pill and swallow it. You knew better, but still took this action. If she gets seriously ill, you will be morally (if not legally) to blame, and there is this thread that can be found…
You should have just caught her on camera, and gone from there. Instead you’ve poisoned her with anti-inflammatories, and anti-depressants. Some of that stuff requires testing of the body’s systems before the person is allowed to take them, and what if she has a weak system? This is not “fun and games” this is a person, and their system, and you set a trap for them with “poison”. You are now in the wrong. See if DoctorJ or **QtM ** agree with what you have done.
Indygrrl I really hope this doesn’t go way wrong. I hope the woman doesn’t get seriously ill from your medicine. You weren’t thinking at all, not at all when you did this. This thread could be used to prove you intended for the theif to take the wrong medicine, not that it was an “accident”. I really hope it turns out ok for all concerned.
That’s a pretty serious accusation to be tossing out there, don’t you think?
God forbid she should keep her own medicine in her own purse. This is the same school of thought that leads to burglars suing homeowners when they break their leg on the way out the window.
But I would truly be pissed if someone were regularly stealing my belongings, and my workplace said all they could do was file a report.
Twice in this thread you have have claimed to have substituted meds for the purpose of making someone sick. AFAIK this is very dangerous and most likely illegal, and I really don’t think I want someone advocating such activities here at the SDMB.
I’m closing this thread.