>There's one in front of my house. You will have to dig it out and remove the
>wires. :-)
>Happy New Year.
Wires????
BTW, we had a surfcam up and running - mounted on under the eave
under the peak of the shack's roof facing AC.
Believe-it-or-not, somebody stole it. One day the view was
upside down (as in having been knocked loose but still hanging by
the wire) couple days later, nada. Drove down there, found a
cut wire....
Now Jim's going to try to get The Good Doctor to let us put one
on the roof of the hotel.
-- Pete Cresswell
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:02:13 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:
>Per Ben Kaufman:
>>There's one in front of my house. You will have to dig it out and remove the
>>wires. :-)
>>Happy New Year.
>Wires????
>BTW, we had a surfcam up and running - mounted on under the eave
>under the peak of the shack's roof facing AC.
>Believe-it-or-not, somebody stole it. One day the view was
>upside down (as in having been knocked loose but still hanging by
>the wire) couple days later, nada. Drove down there, found a
>cut wire....
>Now Jim's going to try to get The Good Doctor to let us put one
>on the roof of the hotel.
Too bad it didn't get a picture of the punks who stole it.
>Too bad it didn't get a picture of the punks who stole it.
What *really* burns me is that the view went sideways a few days
earlier and stupid me figured it was just that a seagull or
something hit it or tried to perch on it - knocking it sideways.
Looking at the scene after-the-fact, it was obvious that somebody
had knocked it off the mount using a stick or something, but
found it still too high to grab.... and than came back later with
somebody taller or something to stand on or whatever it took to
cut the wire it was hanging from.
If I had the common sense to have gotten down there a couple days
earlier, I'd be $600+ ahead of the game.
Interestingly (to me, at least) reading the feature set of
various IP cams two features come up regularly:
- Tamper alarms - where undue motion is detected and
an alarm is thrown
- Spray paint alarms - where it somehow knows somebody
sprayed paint over the lens.
Dunno what good that does for a remote operator.... but it seems
to imply that stealing IP cameras is a fairly main-stream
activity. Makes sense - sort of like stealing tools.... known
values, quick turnovers....
-- Pete Cresswell
