ginmar ([info]ginmar) wrote,
@ 2008-07-23 15:18:00
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Timing is everything
Dear God,

I know you and I chat a lot these days, but I just wanted to express my sincere appreciation that the sheriffs and the cops and the K9s didn't get here till after I helped that lady break into her car. Also, it's nice to know my skills are, uh, still skillful.

There's ten sheriffs over at R's house, the little girl who so torments K with her on-again, off-again friendship. These guys are all wearing plain clothes and bullet-proof vests and white latex gloves. IF they'd gotten here about five minutes earlier I'd have had to explain why I was fishing around in that lady's car door.

Looks like it's going to be a coke bust, too. Yikes. Still, could have been a lot worse.

Hey, wait a second. How come when that lady locked her keys in her car I was the first person she thought of?

Oh, and to complete my day, there's a creepy guy in the hood who's got cameras set up all around his perimeter. Except they're fixed in such a way that he's really looking into peoples' yards and windows.


Ah, my neighborhood.


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You have one of those too?
[info]9thkvius
2008-07-23 08:29 pm UTC (link)
A friend of mine here in town has a creepy neighbor who has cameras pointing into his neighbor's yards. And a few months ago the guy built a deck of sorts on top of his carport, so when he sits up there he has an unobstructed view into my friend's daughter's bedroom window. Apparently the guy is some sort of fundie but has some issues. None of the neighbors like him.

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Re: You have one of those too?
[info]ginmar
2008-07-23 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Apparently the guy is some sort of fundie but has some issues.

Ya think?!

Isn't that kind of illegal, to peep into somebody's window like that?

None of the neighbors like him.

Can't imagine why. Sounds like the life of the party to me. Well, not of any party I'd want to go, but...

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Re: You have one of those too?
[info]bibliofilen
2008-07-23 09:10 pm UTC (link)
That would be illegal over here anyway.

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My friend has talked to the cops
[info]9thkvius
2008-07-23 09:13 pm UTC (link)
and although the guy is teetering on the fence (so to speak), they can't do anything. But now the cops come by to talk to her and the other neighbors, asking how they are doing and such. The police are now suspicious of him and they don't like him already becauue he has become famous for what they call "nuisance" calls, calling the police for anything and everything, calling Animal Control when someone's dog escapes (even when they are chasing him down - happened to my friend), and calling Child Protective Services over trivial things. The guy insists that he is the good guy and ALL of his neighbors are the problem. But the cops? They look at him and his little camera setup and his 12 foor privacy fence and they are totally suspicious of him doing something he isn't supposed to be doing, like a drug lab or kiddie porn or something. So his own willingness to call the cops all the time has drawn their attention onto him. Oh sweet irony, how I love thee.

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Re: Well, not of any party I'd want to go, to but...
[info]stardragonca
2008-07-23 10:26 pm UTC (link)
Or vote for!

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[info]azzy23
2008-07-23 08:29 pm UTC (link)
heh. You should go to his house and let him see you taking pictures or video of him doing it. ;)

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-23 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I could point my camera at his camera.

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[info]stardragonca
2008-07-23 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Whoa! Infinite regress!

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[info]azzy23
2008-07-23 08:39 pm UTC (link)


except with perverts.

Edited at 2008-07-23 08:39 pm UTC

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[info]nimbrethil
2008-07-23 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Infinite Cat Project!

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[info]flewellyn
2008-07-23 08:50 pm UTC (link)
I absolutely love that!

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[info]jackytar
2008-07-24 03:16 am UTC (link) 
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
     infinite_cat();
}

infinite_cat()
{
     infinite_cat();
}

$ cc infinite_cat.c > infinite_cat.exe
$ infinite_cat

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[info]flewellyn
2008-07-24 04:11 am UTC (link) 
(defun infinite-cat ()
   (infinite-cat))

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[info]jackytar
2008-07-24 04:21 am UTC (link)
And for the older code-bashers in the room:

10 CLS
20 REM INFINITE CAT PROGRAM
30 PRINT "TRS-80 INFINITE CAT"
40 GOSUB 100
50 END
100 REM INFINITE CAT SUBROUTINE
110 GOSUB 100
120 RETURN

> RUN

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[info]flewellyn
2008-07-24 05:48 pm UTC (link)
LISP is older than BASIC.

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[info]jackytar
2008-07-25 04:37 am UTC (link)
Oops. I didn't recognize it. Now I'm gonna get kicked out of Geektopia...

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-25 10:13 am UTC (link)
Not a chance of that.

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[info]jlindquist
2008-07-23 09:17 pm UTC (link)
there's a creepy guy in the hood who's got cameras set up all around his perimeter. Except they're fixed in such a way that he's really looking into peoples' yards and windows.

I'm sure they're small, relatively cheap cameras with no filtering. Maybe your neighbors need infrared headbands!

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[info]ciardhapagan
2008-07-23 09:39 pm UTC (link)
I'd go over tonight with some hand lotion and smear it all over the camera lenses.

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[info]nekosensei
2008-07-23 10:21 pm UTC (link)
Better yet, you should smear something on it that will scratch the lens or remove the protective coating.

*wanders off to ask her husband, the amateur photographer*

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[info]nekosensei
2008-07-23 10:28 pm UTC (link)
Okay. I'm told that pumice hand soap works well, especially if you ground it in. It's an abrasive and would scratch the lenses.

Quotes a conversation:

"The best way to ruin the front of the lens is to put lots of very small scratches [in], since they'll scatter the light and you'll get a blurry image so polishing compounds of just about any type are best since that's what polishing is. It could be fixed by re-polishing the front of the lens and then reapplying coatings. It's doable - there's some Russian company that does it - but it's expensive and you're best off just replacing the lens in most cases."

You could also use shaving cream to smear the lenses. It can be fixed, but it's a hassle. They'd have to take it apart to clean it.

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-23 10:29 pm UTC (link)
They'd know who I was. This guy has every angle covered. I wonder why......

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[info]nekosensei
2008-07-23 10:33 pm UTC (link)
So that means you need to get someone who isn't from the neighborhood to do it. :)

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[info]nebojsanjegosh
2008-07-24 01:44 am UTC (link)
what's the range of those cams?
Pick a .22LR round with a hard alloy lead bullet.
Or steel darts/copper balls in an .22 high power air(CO2)rifle.(more applicable in Europe)
You guys are still swimming in cheap ammo,use it.

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[info]kefiraahava
2008-07-23 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Um, I'd probably think of you first too.*wry grin*

Oy, re creepy guy. Surprised someone hasn't spray-painted the camera lenses or something, given your neighborhood wanna-bes.

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[info]malada
2008-07-23 10:36 pm UTC (link)
Cameras pointing to your neighbors yards? Probably cheap but getting close enough to f*ck up the cameras would I.D. you?

Paint gun. Fifty yards. 'Nuff said.

;-)

-m

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-23 10:54 pm UTC (link)
I like the way you think.

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[info]nebojsanjegosh
2008-07-24 01:45 am UTC (link)
too timid.

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[info]reynardo
2008-07-24 01:59 am UTC (link)
She *is* gorgeous, isn't she?

I second Malada on that one. Or a super soaker with a paint mix in it - a large and powerful one should go about 20m

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[info]ravenseer
2008-07-24 12:20 am UTC (link)
PAINT BALL IN GIN'S NEIGHBOURHOOD!!!!! WHO WANTS TO COME?

*grins evilly*

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[info]jackytar
2008-07-24 03:19 am UTC (link)
"Sorry, officer, musta been a stray paintball - y'see, we have these "Butt-Burner Specials", they gotta small salt pellet in the middle, and I guess two or three dozen musta hit the guy's cameras... Yeah, it's a paintball mitrailleuse; made it myownself... okay, we'll take it elsewhere..."

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[info]rickvs
2008-07-23 10:52 pm UTC (link)
> I'd have had to explain why I was fishing around in that lady's car door.

I managed to avoid a potential incident recently, myself. I was taking my already-dead cat to the vet's for cremation, and stopped off at the store. I'm glad I had the presence of mind to cover the pet carrier with a coat first, or I'd have expected a conversation with either a cop or a do-gooder when I returned to the car: "Hey, buddy, you forgot to roll down your windows! Lemme check the condition of this animal..."

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[info]kyra_neko_rei
2008-07-24 02:59 am UTC (link)
For the camera guy: magnets on a stick. Wave near camera. Either it's a tape one that a magnet will erase or it's got computer parts in it that magnets will fuck with. Window-proof too.

At least, I think.

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[info]ekatarina
2008-07-24 07:43 am UTC (link)
Regarding the lady thinking of you when thinking of breaking into a car,...

I'll bet you were the most competent and capable person she thought of.

Ekatarina

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[info]ginmar
2008-07-24 07:50 am UTC (link)
The girls might be responsible for that. They're openly bragging about how strict I am with them.

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[info]ekatarina
2008-07-25 07:50 am UTC (link)
Well, it ain't terribly sexy but there are worse things in this world to be called than a "she gets the job done" girl.

Ekatarina

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