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Warzone? No, but our homeless problem means people may choose to make use of your property in myriad ways. Anything from an open-air bathroom to a place to sta
by technofiend 7y ago
Warzone? No, but our homeless problem means people may choose to make use of your property in myriad ways. Anything from an open-air bathroom to a place to stash stolen goods. Ask me how I know. :-(
I have a nest camera pointing at my driveway. It's configured to use a zone that excludes the public sidewalk and street and only to alert me on seeing people. I really only expect alerts when my wife or the mailman comes and goes. The last time it alerted was actually the police walking across the property because I filled out an "alert slip" letting them know I was going to be gone for some time.
But the time prior to that was a homeless dude who ditched a bunch of stolen property in my yard and then came back to switch into his new stolen clothes. My wife went down and asked him to just go somewhere else mostly because this was the second time he'd done it and we didn't really want it to turn into a habit, much less for him to tell his buddies at the local homeless encampment "Hey, there's this great spot partially out of the public view...".
Unfortunately it turned into the guy screaming at my wife that she was a dumb bitch who couldn't tell him what to do, etc, etc. A police officer happened across all this as it was transpiring and ended up arresting the guy for trespassing. A big chunk of all this was caught on camera, including his using our driveway as a changing room the first time.
Hopefully that's the end of it and we never see this guy again, but if he comes around we have evidence of him trespassing previously and being told (on camera) to vacate the premises. It's just evidence if legal action needs to be taken.