I may actually go insane with anger

TL/DR: Evil always triumphs. Crime pays. Fuck everyone you can; it don’t cost nothin.
If you’re a juror and someone claims insanity for murdering someone that hurt their family - acquit them before lunch and head for IHOP.

Earlier as I looked out my front window, I see my two idiot dogsromping in the street.
They’ve somehow escaped the fenced yard and made it to the Danger Zone.

They’re never allowed out front for obvious reasons. They will never obey commands to return, just run hell-for-leather with their occasional freedom. Forget the acre in back they command…

Just as I rose to go chase them, some cocksucking whore ran this oneover with her SUV.
She slowed before she got to him, stopped after hitting him, then took off as I made it to the front yard screaming at her to stop. There is no question that she knew what happened, and I’m not sure she didn’t do it on purpose. I’ve met evil in my day, but what the fuck kind of worthless cunt runs down a fucking dog and drives on?

It took me 20 seconds to get to car keys and phone, jump in my truck, and give chase.
20 seconds later, I see a dark SUV pulling into a house down the street and the driver jump out. I skid to a stop at her driveway and yell “was that you? did you run down my dogs?” Large Angry Negro in the yard starts towards me yelling that she didn’t do anything, blah, blah, blah. I punched the gas, and kept going down a side street until I got to a man at his mailbox who confirmed that no one had passed him in the last 3 minutes.
Since we live on a dead-end street, unless someone has a hedge that opens into a Batcave, this is the vehicle that did it.

I raced home to call the cops, and to review the security tape from the front yard camera and my dashcam, always pointed at the road. Large Angry Negro is now in his truck coming across the road at me on my street. I pass him and get home.
As I make it into the house, he’s in my driveway, screaming threats at me. Whatever.
Should he open the door, he will have made his last bad decision. I’m on the phone with the cops at this point.

What follows is typical of my life, and why I should end it soon in some dramatic fashion involving skydiving or the Empire State Building.

Lil Ducati has pulled the tape to watch some fucking movie we only have on VHS, and she couldn’t find the remote for HER VCR, so she utilized the dedicated security TV/VCR. It would have shown everything 40 feet away.

My dashcam: records in 15 minute clips, re-starts. 32GB covers the last 10-12 hours. Ahh. Here come the cops. Explanation, blah, blah, blah, let’s go to the tape.
Previous clip ends at say, 1:15:47, and the last clip begins at 1:16:11. Previous clip shows dogs getting into road and ends. Last clip begins with my fat ass running up the drive and going for keys and such. Yep. The only camera that would have shown the SUV clearly drive by has been dead/resetting for about 20 seconds, just as she drove by and over the dog.

Now I can’t prove anything. I didn’t see the driver, couldn’t get a tag, and of course they were out of sight for the 20 seconds it took me to find keys and get going.

The cops head down to chat with LAN and White Trash Driver, and come back with good news: They claim I threatened to kill them all for what she did. “Gonna blow your nigger head off” were my exact words, and with that, they demanded my arrest.

Now believe it or not, that pleased me to no end, for what LAN and WTD didn’t reckon on was the dashcam - with audio- was still running. Grinning, I invited the cops in for a little game of he said/he said. While they were down the street, I had cued up on a laptop the clips in question. I played the clip where I slid to a stop, asked my question, and then drove on.
No threats. No name-calling. No nothing.
Then we play the part where LAN is standing in my drive yelling death threats.
I told the cops as long as he keeps his dumb ass at home and out of my yard I won’t press charges. I’m feeling magnanimous for some reason.

The cops looked at each other, told me to call them next time instead of chasing someone, and to have a good day. They then went to give LAN and WTD the news that they could be charged with giving a false statement to the cops and terroristic threats. Don’t know what happened down there.

Now then. My question is this: While I have a couple of cameras in the house, I want more, closer, HD, out on the road. I don’t think LAN is stupid enough to come fuck with me, but just on general principle, should anything happen to my dogs, kids, cars, etc. I want awesome video. I caught some kids trying to steal a scooter out of my driveway at night last year. If I hadn’t actually seen it happening, it would have been a mystery.

What brand, setup, specs, etc do I want? Every internet security site has plenty of kits, advice, and setups, but I want to know what **really **works. I’m thinking of maybe a birdhouse or something to conceal a camera right by the street, and maybe one in the mailbox looking the other way. Yeah, I’m sounding crazy, but right now I’m mad as fuck at the lapse, and that’s just for the dog. What goes on when we’re gone?
We take trips all the time. What about those damn squatters!

I’d rather not run 1800’ of cable all over the yard, but I can’t think of how to power wireless cameras without a dedicated battery that has to be changed or charged…

Recommend me a great system/ set of specs to reach so my security tapes don’t look like every grainy convenience store robbery tape that could be you or me or Bert and Ernie robbing the place. I don’t want domes or big cameras that look like cameras, otherwise they’re targets for vandals or someone who actually wants to break in/get to the back yard where the toys are. I want small and sneaky so I can hear “FUUUUCK” all the way from the jail when some idiot learns some bluebird nest taped his dumb ass stealing my shit.

BTW, dog is fine; got rolled under the middle, not squished by tire, otherwise I’d be typing from jail.

Sooo…you abandoned your search/rescue attempt on both dogs to go chase down, yell at, and call the cops on someone who didn’t kill your dog? Leaving both dogs running free, and apparently in danger of getting runover by someone else?

Yeah, was wondering about that bit myself…

Sounds a bit like you’ve already gone insane, my friend.

What neighborhood do you live in that possesses you to have a security camera?

And…Large Angry Negro? What?

I always wondered what a LAN party was.

ducati, by the time you were blaming someone else for your dogs getting hit in the street, you’d already lost my sympathy. The “negro” comment cemented it. You need to check yourself: you were like 90% at fault here, and a camera isn’t what you need to fix this situation.

Oookaaay.

Somewhere in there I had my teenagers getting the dogs to safety.

And I live in suburban Atlanta where people like to sneak around and steal things from houses, sheds, vehicles and such. It’s not exactly uncommon.

I’d love to live near you since you don’t have crime, but I don’t think I can afford a gated country-club community. Oh, wait. We have scads of those nearby, and someone snakes laptops and other goodies out of unlocked cars every single night!
:rolleyes:

So you’ve got one dog that was hit by a car, though not killed, another dog running free, teenagers rounding up the non-squished dog and the other dog, and a home video security setup to rival Fort Knox. Why exactly were you chasing after the SUV driver again?

Why would anyone leave a laptop in an unlocked car overnight? May as well post a sign in the car window saying “UNLOCKED, VALUABLES WITHIN”

I’d have pressed charges on the threats and the false statements.

He may 90% iat fault for letting his dogs get out but the fucker that hit the dog and took off is 100% responsible for *his *deplorable actions. Not sure how I would have reacted in that situation but **ducati **has my full sympathy.

No, please keep the hell away. Go find a Bubba infested trailer park if you don’t like the shit hole you presently live in.

A. Shoot

B. Assault

C. Rage at

D. Share crumpets and tea.

I’d rather you didn’t, thanks.

You certainly come across as a sound and reasonable fellow to be instructing people in the use of firearms.

I think Ducati typed this out a bit too soon after it happened. I would have been furious if someone ran over my dog in the way he described as well.

+1

:confused: Oh I forgot, if you identify a black person as anything other than “African American” you’re a horrible evil racist. Got it.

:smack:

PS I agree the OP in some ways did not have a leg to stand on but that doesn’t excuse the Ne…OMG SORRY…“African American”…making false accusations (playing the race card, what a shock! That’s so rare nowdays). Actually I’m most PO’d at the OP for not pressing charges against the ahole. I’m sick to death of that double-standard bullshit and how often it works.

Well hey no racism there. :rolleyes: See what I mean…

To the OP: if your neighborhood is that bad, seriously consider a move. Not joking. And thx for reminding me why I live way out in the middle of nowhere. I’ll tolerate the long drives to work. Far too many aholes out there who I don’t care to live anywhere near.

Look at Reconyx cameras. They have professional grade (intended for scientific studies, etc) and security specific (e.g. license plate recognition), no-glow infrared and scheduling features.

http://www.reconyx.com/hyperfire_detail.php?action=getTechSpecs&id=138