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The doorbell surveillance business is booming. It’s now expected that their sales will reach $1.4 billion by 2023, up from $500 million last year.
Once the doorbell camera is installed, the homeowner has video access to their front porch from any location with Wi-Fi. If you believe the Ring ads on TV, you can also scare off unwanted strangers and burglars by yelling at them through your app. But they're a controversial product. Data privacy experts criticize the idea, and researchers are not convinced they’re really making us any safer. Or just feeding on people’s fears.
We may not have the answers to these questions just yet, but we can at least take a look at some of the weirdest and creepiest things caught by these cameras. From a sleepwalking baby to an orange glow after a chemical plant explosion, and a stranger who comes to pet plants once in a while, some sightings that people saw on their doorbell cameras and shared in this Reddit thread are indeed chilling.
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#1
I have a camera doorbell. Not a ring. The creepiest thing I ever saw was the night I had two cops come to my door. They stood outside the door talking to eachother about if I was home or not and who would r*pe me first.
I was at home at the time.
My dog alerted me by whining at the door, and I checked the DB cam. I listened to them talking for about 10 seconds before I called 911. The operator told me they didn't have cops in my area and to stay away from the door, put at least one more locked door between me and them and to stay on the line and quiet until the real cops could get there.
I live around the block from the fire department so it was less than 2 minutes later when a fire tuck pulled up and the two fake cops ran off.
80 Van 3 years ago
This is a horrendous situation. I’m so glad they had the wherewithal to call 911 first.
Deja Katz 3 years ago
So horrible. And what about others they may have targeted, who are now too petrified to go to the police because they believe they have been raped by the police?
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Alexia 3 years ago
That could easily be a scenario for a horror movie. Glad you are ok. Kudos to the doggo
SPQRBob 3 years ago
I thought about making some snarky horror movie joke, but I just can't even... How incredibly creepy and frightening!
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Mateo Buysse 3 years ago
Idiots. They could not have gone in with a' anonymous cruiser patrol vehicle ?
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#2
At 5ish in the morning, sun was just starting to come up and it's the middle of winter. My husband half asleep answers the doorbell on his phone in bed next to me. It's a toddler wearing nothing but a pj top and underwear. Husband says "hello?" Toddler says "can (my son's name) come out to play?" Husband still half asleep says "not right now maybe later" About 3 mins later husband suddenly sits up as the reality of the situation dawn's on him and he rushes out of the house to track down a wandering toddler walking barefoot in the streets in freezing weather. Turns out my son's toddler friend from daycare who's been to our house once for a playdate just walked straight out his front door undetected and memorized the route to our house. For me it was the possibility of his little journey ending very differently than it did in a number of terrifying scenarios that still haunts me.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
My neighbor and I were out on a snowy night, when a toddler came out of a side street in only a diaper, we grabbed him called the cops who took him to the hospital for a checkup found his mommy so doped up she didn't know what the cops were trying to tell her. Needless to say she does not have her child anymore!
AnaSan 3 years ago
Poor child:( I hope that he got more caring and loving family
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I'm kinda cracking up on the hubby who at first just answered, "not now, maybe later."
Laura Lou 3 years ago
I had a toddler walk up to me in a crowded aquarium, and grab my hand. I was like 16, and I had no idea what to do since he wouldn't say anything and just kept holding my hand tightly. So I just moved towards an open space, hoping whoever he was with would come around and see him. His mom came by a couple of minutes later, and he eagerly let go of my hand to run to her. I thought it was smart of him to grab a women's hand (I was about the same height as his mom with the same hair color but I'm pretty sure he didn't think I was his mom). Toddlers are just something else.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
For those that are childfree and cannot understand how this can happen, toddlers can't reach the front door k**b and it is one thing parents don't need to think about. Until the day they can. We found out our eldest could now open the door in a similar way.
Dave P 3 years ago
I know of a case of a 7 years special needs child who one night just walked out of the house, unlocked the doors and all, and was later recovered by police 2 miles away (the parents when they realized called right away). Needless to say they had to change their locks to a way the kid could not open.
KMill 3 years ago
Where on Earth does the sun start to come up at 5am in the middle of Winter? Even in South Texas the sun doesn’t rise until 7am in Winter.
Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
My mom has a similar story. My grandparents had a huge farm in Idaho, and just after I was born, my mom lived on the property in a trailer with my brother and me, about 100 yards away from the main house. This was late 70's, dead of winter (in ID, that's a few feet of snow), and in the middle of the night, my brother, who was maybe 2 or less, decided he wanted to go see grandpa. So, in his bed clothes (which is not much) somehow gets out and walks to the house. Luckily, my grandpa was up, and in the kitchen (where the door was) and heard him. Needless to say,my mom double childproofed everything after that. She said my brother had figured out how to climb up places, and how to work all the doors. So at night she put up all the chairs etc etc. could've ended real badly, I shudder to think.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My grandfather told a story from when he was younger about a girl who sleepwalked. Her parents were really worried that she would walk out of the house and into the dam and drown so had to rig up some extra security on the door.
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K Tigress 3 years ago
Probably mentally ill and self medicated her self. Mom needs help. But kid yeah should go to a loving sanctuary. Still!, its too bad that we don't find these things such as mentally illness first and then not allow people in these situations to have kids in the first place. But I guess its just wishful thinking.
#3
I bought my ring when they weren't available in the UK. I imported it from America. Next door got broken into and the guy doing it was clearly looking at my doorbell wondering if it was indeed a camera or just some fancy new doorbell. I recorded him using their doorbell with his t shirt over his finger (to stop his prints) and him breaking in by kicking through the bottom panels of the door. I showed the video to the police and they said aha yep we know him. I also caught him smoking a cigarette, throwing it on the ground and leaving that sweet DNA on the butt. police picked him up, used the cigarette and my videos as evidence and charged him. He got 3 years at her majesty's pleasure.
Pat Bond 3 years ago (edited)
This happened between 2014 & 2016. The irony now, is he could be charged with invading the neighbours privacy and face a 100K fine after a landmark case in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58911296
Dill 3 years ago (edited)
You do have to be careful with cameras on domestic property in the UK. I have CCTV at the front and back of my property and you have to make sure it doesn't capture anything bar your property and you must have signs up saying that you have CCTV so people are aware they are being recorded. People are not always fully aware of the regs and what is and isn't permissible. You can disable areas that trigger filming on the Ring doorbell but it's not that efficient because movement elsewhere then triggers recording and you still film the whole view. CCTV cameras are much easier to angle away from other people's property - though they also had an additional camera and were filming most of the neighbours garden, despite being asked not to. At least audio can now be switched off as that was another problem.
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Phil Boswell 3 years ago
Hence the link under the photo saying "not the actual photo" 🤦♂️
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To find out more about the doorbell cameras and what experts think of them, we reached out to Daniel Markuson, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN. For those who’ve never come across a doorbell cam, it's a “smart home security device that lets you see the person approaching your home before they enter,” Markuson said.
He continued: “Some of the smart doorbells (like Amazon’s Ring) give you remote control of your doorway. The device is attached next to your front door and connects to your mobile device over Wi-Fi. When someone tries to visit you, you can see the person through the installed camera and allow or deny entry to your house remotely,” Markuson explained. NordVPN’s research shows that 16% of users own smart doorbells.
#4
My little brother is a sleepwalker, this one time he snuck out of the house (while still asleep).
My sister said she heard someone talking just outside the door, went to look and saw my brother sat on the porch couch apparently having a conversation with my grandpa. She says he was telling my grandpa “I love you” and “I’m going to miss you.”
My dad got him back inside the house without waking him up and nobody gave much thought into what just had happened until a couple hours later when my uncle called telling us my grandpa had passed away while asleep.
My little brother says he doesn’t remember anything but we got it on video, we can’t hear what he’s saying too clearly but he was definitely talking to someone and he sure as heck said “I’m going to miss you” at least twice.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Really beautiful, and evidence that there's more to this existence than we know.
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago (edited)
I'm ready for some downvotes on this, but I'll say it anyway. Once in a while I'll hear a story like this, and my typical reaction is to brush it off and move on. But the past couple of years, with Covid, all the anger, violence, sickness and political division, it's really just beaten me down so that I feel like I'm nothing but a mass of anger and sadness. But today, this story made me feel something else, something I haven't felt in a while. I think it was hope. Hope that maybe there's something benevolent and good beyond what we see here every day.
Mazer 3 years ago
What an awesome share, glad to know you are in a better place for now
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Troux 3 years ago
In two paragraphs, "apparently having a conversation with my grandpa" turned into "definitely talking to someone." OP might have some embellished hearing.
Kay blue 3 years ago
It doesn't matter if they have made a mile wide leap, if thinking the little boy was talking to grandpa gives some comfort after a death, then who cares.
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Linda HS 3 years ago
My grandfather said goodbye to me in almost similar way…I miss him every day!
Linnedivera 3 years ago
Mine did too! In a dream, just a view years after his passing, telling me that he's allright and I didn't need to worry
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Robin DJW 3 years ago
This is not all that uncommon. It happened once to my little toddler brother/elderly grandfather. And we are the biggest sceptics in the land. We just say that science does not yet know enough to explain a lot of things out there. Any scientist who disagrees with that is suffering from marked hubris.
Henry Russell 3 years ago
i remenber one of babysitters saying they caught one of there very young relatuve shouting there dead relatives name and pretending play with him the only thing is the two never heard about or saw eachother it stills creeps me out
#5
Not super creepy, but there is a guy that pets my plants sometimes.
Delta of the Sand/Rainwings 3 years ago (edited)
Who's a good little plant? You are! Yes, you are, my little plant!
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
That's not creepy. I also pet plants and talk to them. It's good for you and the plants like it as well. So, if you see a crazy lady in the woods hugging a random tree - it might be me!
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago (edited)
I'm the one watching you from a high tree stand applauding your happiness 😁 but only if you're the one that also thanked the blueberry bush for your breakfast. The other one crapped in the stream and that made me mad... I'm only half kidding- these are things I've seen from my tree stand but I'm certain it wasn't you. Both of these people hugged a bunch of trees so, yea, you're not alone *EDIT no I'm not hunting, I keep tabs on the herds of deer and predatory animals on my property.
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debrina blackmoon 3 years ago
Our daughters call their parlor palm that, also! :)
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Desert Solitaire 3 years ago
I talk to my plants, stroke and kiss them. All everything needs is a little love right. I know I know I'm weird.
Amber Jeanpierre 3 years ago (edited)
A few years ago an old tree down the street was hit violently by a drunk trying to impress a woman with some sort of spin-out in the rain; the tree was left with a large deep scar and whenever I walk past I pet the scar and ask the tree how it's doing today? With more and more evidence that plants can feel pain I secretly hope it knows someone is thinking of it and still cares. Video of the crash here: --- https://youtu.be/YR-jdeuFN_M?t=30 --- Note that what looks like sparks after the crash is the tree's leaves flying off, this happened during autumn 2017.
Steph 3 years ago
I am absolutely convinced the tree feels your love and concern! You are a very caring soul!
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I watched a delivery driver get knuckle-deep in their own nose and then plant a gangly looking booger on one of our columns. That was the funniest.
The creepiest? Our neighborhood is a common target for porch pirates. Our neighbors got a bunch stolen off their porch a few years ago and we all put up cameras after that. You'd think porch pirates would recognize that many houses have cameras now, but you don't get to porch pirate status by being an intelligent person. I moved some cardboard boxes outside, intending to load them in the truck and take them to the town dump. I got busy and forgot I set them out on the steps. It got late. A porch pirate came along and picked up the main box that the rest were crushed into, thinking it was some expensive package. We were unaware anything was going on until the dogs went nuts, meaning someone was at the front door. I went out, took a quick peek, nothing. The dogs went nuts again a few minutes later. This time I went back outside armed (wouldn't be the first time I needed it). As I approached the front door, something ran across our front yard and through both sets of gardens. I then heard some crapbox rev up and putter-fart away. I checked security cam footage and witnessed that lowlife cram himself into the largest cardboard box to hide when I approached the door the first time.
It's cool though. I left some presents for the porch pirates last year and they haven't been back since. Package up about 10lbs of dog crap, old chicken broth (bonus if you let some chicken go rancid and toss that in too) and silver nitrate in a large ziplock bag. Glue it upside down in a cardboard box so that the flaps contact the bottom. Glue the bottom of the bag against the flaps of the box. When someone opens the box, it tears the seal open and makes one hell of a mess that they will never be able to clean up.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Kitty litter in Amazon Boxes (used kitty litter) ! I have done this two or three times, I assume it's not the same guy!
Not Proud British 3 years ago
You went out armed? See this is what we in the UK don't understand. If someone steals something from our garden/porch we can confront them, cause they ain't going to be armed. Unless it's with a knife and then we just back away and call the police. I could never in all honesty go out with a gun to defend my post. Whatever I have that they wanna steal, it ain't worth taking their life for. Everyone has a family, everyone started life with potential. Everyone has a story to tell. And you would shoot them for stealing your post?
Rachknits 3 years ago
I'm a little lost - what are porch pirates? Are they like garden gnomes?
SadUnicorn27 3 years ago
I love the idea of leaving a crappy present for porch pirates, but I'd be more concerned of the repercussions. I can almost guarantee if I tried that in my neighborhood, they would come back and deface the house, car, smash a window etc. :(
When asked whether Markuson thinks that doorbell cameras are a good tool to maximize security at home, he said that they can help you feel physically safer, as you can see the people who pass by your house. “If a camera is connected to Wi-Fi, it can help you protect your house even if you are away from home.”
On the other hand, Markuson warned that as with all IoT devices, there are a lot of security and privacy risks associated with smart doorbell cameras. “A doorbell camera may be hacked, or a company that manufactures certain products may be unethical with its user data,” he said.
#7
I have some flowerbeds out front and they've gotten vandalized, so I got camerasto cover them. I also live down the road from student housing so I get drunk kids stumbling through all the time. Every semester around finals, various groups of kids come 'pay tribute to the fae for luck' by sitting around my jasmine bed that has a faerie house neighborhood in it. They praise the faeries, begging for luck, & leave tributes in the form of little snacks or small trinkets like bottle caps. It's hilarious & adorable.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
Do a little remodelling, so there is a little table and maybe somewhere to sit/kneel/stand without damaging the flowerbeds and maybe a little sign that says 'Please be careful around the flowers'
Carol Emory 3 years ago
Expand "The Faeries would like you to please be careful around the flowers."
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Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago (edited)
This would make my day if it happened to me I would leave a note up saying what the fairies like most and will bring extra luck.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Lol this is adorable truly. I would offer to take a group photo for each batch.
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Some of the gardeners who lived near off-campus housing put U-shaped wires (upside down of course) in random patterns throughout their gardens. Tripped up a number of drunken students wandering aimlessly.
Aradia Sayner 3 years ago
I love this. I have a fairy garden. I also have a sign that says "Don't piss off the fairies".
#8
Random guy comes to our door at 1 AM, looks into the Ring then puts something down on the door mat but doesn't ring the bell. About 15 minutes later, someone approaches the door quickly, takes it and runs off. I saw two events in the morning and was like WTF. Seeemed super sketchy. Then my next door neighbor texted saying he got home super late, ordered food, and the delivery driver dropped it at our house instead of his.
K 3 years ago
“B-b-bird, bird, bird- bird is the word” Love your username 😁
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ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago
That would be the absolute dumbest way ever to do a drug deal lol.
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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
A delivery person who corrected their mistake? Never seen that before!
A B C 3 years ago
Nope. Delivery person got the wrong door, neighbour came to their own front door to collect their food (contact-less with the driver as we're still living in this shitty pandemic), found nothing, checked OP's front door and found their food.
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#9
Not really creepy but there’s a serial gnomer in my neighborhood being caught on doorbell cameras. She’s dropping off gnomes on the unsuspected and walks away.
Sarah Saunders 3 years ago
Took a friend's 'stolen' gnome all over the place and sent pics/postcards to them for about a year 20 years ago. They found it funny eventually :)
Marco Conti 3 years ago
Garden Gnomes are getting stolen all over the place. Is this guy is actually redistributing them?
Another problematic aspect of doorbell cameras is that they can be vulnerable to hacking. “First of all, it is harder to hack a device that is not connected to the internet. But if your doorbell is smart and connected to your home Wi-Fi, you should be more cautious,” Markuson said.
#10
A previous owner of my house had installed a mezuzah on the door. My wife and I aren’t Jewish but we left it because. About once a year in the early spring, a car will pull up in front of our house. An older man will get out, walk to the door, then Touch the mezuzah then get back in his car and leave. It’s not the previous owner, but it may be the person who put it there.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
I once went to a studio to get a photo taken of my art and noticed that the ceramic mezuzah on the front door jamb had been vandalized. So w/o telling them I went to a temple near me with a shop and bought a new one and installed it (as a mitzvah even though I'm not Jewish). Mitzvahs are usually done in secret and this is the first time I've ever told anyone about that.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Nice. It sounds like a blessing on your house. Mazel tov. Mazel tov.
Dennis Stanley 3 years ago
a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a case to the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith.
Dave P 3 years ago
not just a sign of faith, it is also supposed to bring gods protection upon the household as well, which is why the tradition is to touch it with your hand/fingers and then kiss them when you enter and exit.
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Wandaluzt 3 years ago
This was posted on Reddit. They cannot see your reply.
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#11
I was drunk as f*ck watching my parents house when they were on vacation, woke up the next morning to a video my mom sent me, I was taking out the trash and dropped my phone in with the trash... I'm in my boxers trying to get my phone out of the trash can... my drunk a*s falls into the garbage can and I had a hell of a time getting myself out. I remember none of it. My mom proceeds to send that video to the rest of my family... and extend family.. and some family friends. Scary, no... but pretty hilarious
My Name Is Mars 3 years ago
I always cringe when reading about alcohol induced black outs. I attempted suicide in 2014 and survived (obviously) but my brother got black out drunk in September and spent nearly an hour following me through our house telling me repeatedly to kill myself.
Anagram margana 3 years ago
Hilarious?? Makes you wonder if he learned anything? At all. Ever. I don’t think so.
Jackie Nettleton 3 years ago
Your mum sounds like a great mum that would totally join in at your house parties
#12
I live alone and my son recently installed a ring doorbell. About 5.30am I got a notification that a person was seen at my door. I watched the video and there was a really creepy person (was still dark) hanging around. I rang my son, he has the app to access the doorbell videos etc. Turns out it was me showing my dog there was no one outside.
hobbitly 3 years ago
So his son recognised it was him, but he did not recognise himself? And he forgot he was outside at 5:30?
Xīngxīng Emmersyn 3 years ago
I think that's when the notification came in, not necessarily when it happened. Plus people have different perceptions of themselves, so if you see a video of yourself doing something you don't remember doing, that alters who you think that person is.
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j miller 3 years ago
This is even stranger...why would the dog go to the door in the 1st place if no one was there? Why did the person not remember opening door for the dog? If notification was at 5:30 am when did this happen in the dark? The person went OUTSIDE the door to show the dog no one was outside?
Anna Snorrepot 3 years ago
this'll get you killed in Georgia :( RIP Ahmaud Arbery
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“As a result, anyone who’s hacked your device can monitor who enters or leaves your house and can even steal your Wi-Fi password. Moreover, they can trick you into letting in a stranger by showing you a video of someone you know. If your doorbell stores some of the videos, hackers could also steal them and use them for blackmail,” Markuson concluded.
#13
Not a ring cam, just a porch cam. The creepiest thing I've seen? Racoons.... like 12 of them lined up on my porch staring at my front door for what seemed like a really long time...
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
We had a mom raccoon and SIX babies traipse through my backyard. One stumbled over a pool cleaner pole, making a HUGE rattle (which was what alerted me). Mom turns around and chitters angrily at clumsy baby who scampered to catch up. She was still chittering as they rounded the corner to the trash cans! Another night they came thru, and Clumsy tripped going thru the gate bars. Cue Mom grumping at him some more!
A B C 3 years ago
D'awww, I can relate to the clumsy one being scolded, that could have been me! :D
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Raccoons: "You knock" "No you knock" "I'm not knocking. I knocked at the last house"
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Not a good idea. It gets very expensive once they start bringing their friends over. I am not joking at all.
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Jo FrH 3 years ago
Or trying to work out how to get in the door? Raccoons are pretty sneaky from what I hear...
Otter 3 years ago
Or maybe they're waiting for the racoon they sent inside to come out with the targeted bag of dog food?
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For a time I had a family of racoons (mama and 2 pups) come through the cat door and help themselves to our cat food. It was actually very cute, with me sitting across the room watching TV and mama checking me out to make sure I was not going to interfere. The only thing I did was to lock the cats upstairs before racoon time to avoid a cartoon like furball fight. Otherwise they were always very polite and very cute.
ric carter 3 years ago
Only racoons? We're up in the Sierra Nevada mountains and our nearby in-laws' porch-cam caught seven pumas (mountain lions) prowling outside. Nice kitties!
#14
My daughter woke me up really early one day, so we were settling in the couch to watch some TV. I hear a rustling on the porch and figure it's wind, but then feel weird and look at the cam on my phone. There a guy on the porch taking her special needs bicycle!! He lifted it over the baby's wagon, and that was the sound I heard. I jumped up and opened the door (it was early, pre-coffee, wasn't thinking very clearly yet). He was gone. We called the police to make a report, and they came out to see the clip. Then they said "Is it that bike right there?" Apparently, he dropped it at the end of our street when he heard our door open. We felt dumb for not checking, but we're glad we got the bike back.
B-b-bird 3 years ago
Theres nothing dumb about calling police. you did a right thing, now they will be alerted
Zoe TUFEKCI 3 years ago
They did say they felt dumb for not checking or am I just stupid and missing the point
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Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Why would you have a special needs bike and a baby wagon on your porch unsecured?
Mazer 3 years ago
Not everyone lives in a place with a garage or room to store bikes inside.
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Rob Detmar 3 years ago
This reminds me of a time where last year I was sitting in my apartment, up super early because I have been unemployed, and at around 5:30-6:00 I hear noise on our little patio! (Our apartment has a little courtyard so the ones on our floor have patios) We had been having construction done so I was used to the sound of construction workers moving/doing stuff, and began to hear the sound of something moving in/on my patio! At first I ignored it, until I then heard the person walk and open the door, to come into the building. Turns out it was a random guy trying to steal my bike that I have in our patio! So I got out, yell at him, "What are you doing with MY BIKE?" - with more than a little anger in me. He just started trying to explain, stuttering, saying something like "Well I thought.." and then just mumbling because he cannot think of an excuse. So while he tried, I just yanked the bike from him, shoved it into him, and told him to get out of here! The bike doesn't even function lol.
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago (edited)
I heard my dogs who were supposed to be guardians making their nom nom sounds. Didn't have a camera,did have a 44. Found crackhead neighbor (the reason I owned the gun) feeding my dogs hotdogs. I showed him my pretty gun , explained it's use against evil and explained that the only reason I hadn't just showed it's outstanding capabilities,was that he was a: too close to my babies,the puppies and they might get something nasty on them b: my car was directly behind him and while it was old, I didn't want to shoot it. He told me he had been cleaning up the fridge at his trailer and thought the puppies might want the hotdogs at 3 am. I explained my gently raised sweetheart babies didn't need his darned heckin' hotdogs. ( My dogs disagreed) and that he should leave. He did, rapidly. I sat down and shook for a bit from anger and reaction. Petting my babies. While I write it funny, it was scary. I lived alone. But somehow, after that I became " the crazy lady who will shoot you over nothin
Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
Seriously. You really think you're a hero for threatening your neighbour with a gun because he was feeding your dogs? America is nuts. No wonder so many people want to leave.
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#15
A chemical plant blew up a few miles from my house and you could hear the a distant explosion and see an orange glow on mine
Rissie 3 years ago
Miles away is not close to a residential area. Or at least not closer than usual. You may not visit industrialized areas much, but they are there dear.
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#16
Got an alert that someone was at the door and my dog barked, but no knock. I thought I heard something, so I checked the camera and a younger looking guy had walked up and tried to unlock my front door with what I guess was a key he found on the ground close to my house. In broad daylight! With our cars in the driveway. What the actual f*ck.
Servali 3 years ago (edited)
Been there, done that. Multiple times. But my excuse is that I was distracted! I have ADD and most often I walk one house too far while being distracted and I only notice that things look wrong if my key won't fit. Though I remember one time when I was a kid when my key didn't work and I actually rang the door bell. Our neighbor opened the door and explained a bit confused that I have the wrong house.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
After I first bought my car before I properly recognized it, I tried to get into a stranger's car. Set my coffee on top of it, spent a full minute examining scratches on the side, and then stood there like an idiot trying to figure out why my fob didn't work before I realized it wasn't my car and wasn't even the same color.
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Emmydearest 3 years ago
Years ago my dad was in the kitchen and he heard someone opening the door. Mind that we live in a building at the 3rd floor and there's another door at the bottom of the stairs and a big courtyard with a gate (always open) and multiple apartments in a very safe suburban area. What i mean is that you have to purposely go to my front door, it's not just facing the main street. Well, he thought it was my mom opening the door but it was in fact a young guy. He quickly apologized saying that it was a survey employee and it was a mistake but he didn't ask any questions, he promptly left. He definitely took a "gamble": he tried, hoping nobody was home, but he saw a man in the house and fleed. But what if i was alone in the house, or my mom? From that day we were more careful locking the door. And please, don't leave your keys or purses close to the front door. He could have quickly grabbed them and come back when the house was empty.
Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago
Someone suggested a tip for "distracting" burglars.. Put a key under your mat that looks like a house key but doesn't actually go to anything. They will think it's an easy rob but then get anxious when they spend too long trying to get in.
Fluffy Griffin 3 years ago
My sister had someone fumbling for a while at her front door... Turned out it was a drunk guy who lived a few houses down and thought it was his house.
Crysta Perak 3 years ago
When I was in Zambia, we had a guide who drives us around. We went inside to eat then when we were all done I got out first and got into the truck. I sat down and the driver says hi. I said hi back and looked a little longer at his face, and he said "mam I don't know you, xD all my local friends are not white." I happened to get in the truck of the same model and we both laughed so hard xD
Crysta Perak 3 years ago
The other day I was trying to get into my apartment building but the key wasn't working. I was so tired. Then I realized I am trying to get into the wrong building. Mine is nextdoor.
#17
My mom saw a guy wandering around her yard with a baseball bat in hand late at night. Her, my brother, and our Great Dane went out to ask him what the f*ck he thought he was doing. Guy immediately ran off.
Used to think security cameras at home were weird. Now I know they can give you a head start in case someone shady is about.
yeciye 3 years ago
I think the guy was looking for his lost baseball. He had a baseball bat and it was dark after all.
Anna Snorrepot 3 years ago
I agree. That's why baseballs are white after all. To find them easier in the dark.
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ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
Don't do this. You see someone in your yard with a weapon of any kind, stay inside, lock your doors, and call the police. You have no idea of that person's strength or state of mind. Let the police handle it.
Beth Arriaga 3 years ago
I know Great Danes are very large, but every one I've ever met are the sweetest, goofiest love bugs ever. Can they get mean and protective? Serious question - just curious.
#18
Not a ring doorbell, but a small camera in my bedroom window.
I caught a man watching me through the window in real time. My phone alerted me that there was movement outside my window, so I opened the live stream and watched the man watch me.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago
This is how Richard Ramirez started out, peeping on people with his psycho pervert uncle. Makes me shudder.
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유림 오 3 years ago
Oooh I have something similar . Not a cam but around 10p.m winter , police officers rang the doorbell that some creepy dudes were standing in front of the window and probably jerking off "ew" and ran away when the police car turned into our street. Someone who was passing on the other side of the road saw it and reported it . At that time I lived with another girl . Creepy af
lakitha tolbert 3 years ago
I think it's pretty much what's always been wrong with them, except now with 90% more camera action! (Still asking the question tho'!)
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ChickenNugget 3 years ago
I would go to the window (recording) and be like "Hey b!tch, what are you looking at?! I already have the police on the way so you better stop! (also I would be with my big scary dogs) if this happened to me
#19
Have a security camera pointed at the back of the house toward my detached back garage.... The weirdest thing that still f*cks with me was late night on 4th of July. The noise of neighborhood fireworks kept the regular animals away, but my camera did pick up an individual hanging around the back of the house and neighbors back lawn. Definitely was a person.... ....but they were walking on all fours like a goddamn spider. Not once did they go back to walking on their legs. They were gangly looking....lean and not pudgy. Also wearing a dark shirt and pants. Their face was always kept down. This creeper was crawling all around the back and into the neighbor's lawns on all fours for like 10min before they f*cked off and left the area picked up by the security camera. The next morning a pile of human sized sh*t plus a copious amount of vomit was found in the middle of my driveway at the back of the house. There were whole un-chewed skittles in the vomit. So yeah, creepiest thing my outdoor camera has picked up: gangly human crawling around the back driveway of my house on all fours while vomiting up skittles.
cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
I want to know what drugs turn you into a skittle vomiting sh*t spider
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
"Skittle vomiting s**t spider" -previously unsaid phrase in human history
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Stina Kolling 3 years ago
They probably drank WAY too much skittle-soaked vodka and ate the skittles on the way down.
#20
My wife’s ex-husband in our backyard looking in the windows.
StormWolf 3 years ago (edited)
Yep, last I checked a person is 54% more likely to be killed by someone they know
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bxttery_bxby 3 years ago
We have this problem too. My step-dad spent almost $1000 dollars on a security system and cameras for every corner of the house. We ended up having to move because my father tried breaking into our house and the police refused to do anything about it.
FABULOUS1 3 years ago
My ex wife and her new wife at the time used to sit across the street from my house watching me. She even showed up at my house at 9 pm one night just in a night gown that said Up All Night, going to different neighbors house to locate me. I knew they were on drugs but not sure why she went along with my ex-wife stalking me.
Christine Jemison 3 years ago
Had that happen to me with my ex, Didn't have ring looked out window and there he was !!!
#21
My neighbors mom looking to come "kick my a*s" while i was home. I didn't realize she was there until later bc i had headphones on At the time i was 24 and he was 37 i think. He was all pissy because i told him next time i hear him beat his gf I'm calling the cops no matter how much she begs everyone not to So he sent his mom over Rewatching that video just gives creepy vibes knowing that i was home but oblivious
My Name Is Mars 3 years ago
My first apartment was in a really bad neighborhood and I saw a guy beating his female companion in the parking lot. I called the sheriff's department and they took their time sending out a deputy. By the time he'd arrived, the couple was long gone. All the deputy has to say was, "you must be new to this area; you'd better get used to the violence here or move elsewhere because no one really cares". I was appalled at his utter apathy.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Her partner aka man's father probably beat her. That's usually where men learn it and women learn to believe it's normal.
Ana Raquel 3 years ago
My ex was also protected by his mother even when she knew he was doing evil stuff. She is as guilty as he is... It runs in some families
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#22
Not too creepy, but there was a man in my area for a time that would wear a jumpsuit and a TV on his head and he would randomly leave old TVs and monitors on people's porches. Dude hit up like 50 homes. Never caught.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Saw this somewhere else..cant remember which aite but still TV guy is creepy..like the 90s Barclays Bank atm advert guy
juice 3 years ago
it was in Virginia and i believe they never caught him. ezgif-1-d6...92ce88.gif 
Hisseefit 3 years ago
More like the grinch. Old tv's you have to pay to get rid of.
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
I had a guy who biked around the neighborhood with a sword strapped to his back. Think 1890's homes in an old neighborhood in Seattle. It was always at night.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
Beside trespassing, and maybe littering, I am not sure what crime he was committing.
Jupittance 3 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/14/someone-left-old-tvs-outside-homes-virginia-while-wearing-tv-his-head-no-one-knows-why/
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#23
Honda Civic riding back and forth slowly around our neighborhood playing ice cream truck music loudly. Hoping it was a stupid prank and not something more sinister.
april jenkins 3 years ago
next time it happens, wear a pennywise costume holdibg a red balloon and chase them down for an ice cream..
E M 3 years ago
The ice cream man song is actually based off an old racist tune. There was a time cops played it in predominately black neighborhoods to scare people. Hope it's not that, but it could be.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Do you mean Greensleeves, because I just looked it up and it actually about a promiscuous lady, or a prostitute. Some have said it is probably about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
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cb !!! 3 years ago
i have an eternal fear of ice cream trucks ever since one came around my neighborhood when i was little. apparently, they would sit outside houses with kids and just play the music over and over. i remember clearly that they were selling drugs out of it, and my dad got in a fist fight with one of the guys. they never came back again.
Stina Kolling 3 years ago
In our neighborhood, the ice cream man also sells weed. Could have been a dealer with a sense of humor (no pun intended).
#24
Dude crouching behind my car while me and my mom got out, crept up right behind it and we didn't even notice, his face was covered, didn't see until a day or two later watching random clips.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Jeez you don't stop do you. They literally cannot see your reply. They did not post it here. They posted it on Reddit. You cannot speak to them.
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#25
It’s not actually a Ring doorbell (just a security cam), but we caught this mountain lion casing my car late one night.
MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago (edited)
Panthers are amazing! You may not appreciate this but where I live this would be a spectacular sight as panthers are very endangered here.
#26
6 people standing about 10 feet from my door and just staring at my house this past September.
They were there muttering to each other for almost 20 minutes before going to the next house on the row and muttering there too.
My girlfriend thinks they were the HOA, but I don't totally believe that.
JuJu 3 years ago
The things I hear about American HOAs...I totally believe this (and that they were plotting your death)
Otter 3 years ago
The petty tyrants at the typical HOA are very much capable of doing something like that! And of plotting the deaths of people who paint their houses the wrong color, or who use too many Christmas lights. Or too few.
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Home Owners Association. They will make you and your baseball bat pay a fine.
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Marco Conti 3 years ago
I knew HOAs were cults. They were likely reciting ancient HOA rituals from the Sumerian HOA guild to change your house color to the same shade as everyone else.
PeachPossum 3 years ago
"Us" was one of the few horror movies I really liked.
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memyselfandI 3 years ago
Why don’t you report it to the HOA saying it was clearly someone dangerous who would compromise the security of the neighborhood, then they can be embarrassed when they figure out it was actually them.
KAG 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was a church group praying for the homeowner. The were probably going around the whole neighborhood wanting to bless everyone.
BrookieTheWookie 3 years ago
I'd it weird if someone religious laughs at your comment?
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Brian Bennett 3 years ago
Dam -that Christmas decoration is not approved! Go ahead use the bat!
#27
I have a camera in the hallway inside the house facing the door. Some one with a motorcycle helmet opened the front door, pet my dog, and then left. Checking the front yard camera, there was no motorcycle or car in the driveway. We changed the locks and got a security system that night.
Corgo Man 3 years ago
So your telling me dude just walked right in, pet the dog, and just left? Das a good man right there. He only looking out for the doggo
Superninjatiger 3 years ago
Or he was about to do something, saw the dog and checked if it was friendly or make it see him as a good person and not attack when he came back later to do something.
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The Sorrows of Mother LoveJoy 3 years ago
He was acclimating ur dog to a future Home invasion.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
Well it could have been a lot worse than a man just wanting to pet a dog
#28
The power line across the street burst into flames for a moment. Not a transformer, but the cable itself. Maybe it's not that unusual but I've never seen anything like it.
moose man 3 years ago
well... this relates to a story from probably like last year. si i was on a bike ride with some friends, and we were on our way to this store we always go to to buy coke and mountain dew from our meeting place (its this church parking lot). we were at a traffic light waiting to cross the street. then we heard a loud buzz. a transformer blew up right buy us on the opposite side of the street. we were all like HOLY S**T WFT WAS THAT and then it happened again about a minute later. again, we freaked out. then the crossing signal turned blue, and it happened again while we crossed. so we pass through my neighborhood, cut through the nature park, down this huge hill, through a police station parking lot (an entrance to the park), cross a road, and we arrive at the store. theres a lady outside, we always see her. she works there. we tell her what just happened, check the power grid, and the power is out all around us. after we buy our drinks, we head home, and the power is out the whole day.
lakitha tolbert 3 years ago
I have seen a transformer blow. It's exactly as terrifying as you think it sounds!
Mazer 3 years ago
A transformer is an electrical apparatus that manipulates the level of voltage flowing through any point in a power grid. In a distribution system, the transformer decreases the voltage traveling through power lines to a level more suitable for residential and commercial use.
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A full grown man had a gun and shot someone, dont know if he missed or not, all I knew was I was scared.
Buren 3 years ago (edited)
I am grateful that gun is not something that can be easily owned by anyone here
yeciye 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah! Unless you live un some unlucky place. But most countries don’t have this problem, fortunately.
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Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Most people have no idea how far their bullets can go and how readily they can pass through walls, cars, etc.
#30
Whats most scary is my ring doorbell went of several times in the middle of the night for no reason... I changed the setting to video only wake, instead of audio/video. It went on for about a month.
Saint Jimmy 3 years ago
I thought you said mothman at first and tbh I was ready to accept that as the answer
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John David Miller 3 years ago
Casper just wanted to tell you about your cars extended warranty
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
could have been something as simple as a big moth or insect triggering it.
Scott 3 years ago
At my last house, my camera would pick up the headlights of my neighbour's cars turning in and out of their driveways and onto the street, which would, in turn, ring my doorbell due to the motion. My dogs would lose their minds, of course, so I had to turn my doorbell off until I moved about a year later.
Martha Higgins 3 years ago
It didn't go of, it went off. Sometimes just enough wind will do that or movement of a tree or shrub.
#31
2AM, the dogs are going nuts. It is usually a cat but they are not calming down. Sleepy and just awakened it finally occurs to me to check the doorbell camera. There is a guy just hanging out on the front porch. He alternately sits on a window sill or stands and leans against the wall. He gives the vibe that he is waiting in a way too long line but does not try to ring the doorbell or knock. We call the police non-emergency line. He is not acting threatening in the slightest, just weird. Police pull up and talk to him. My best guess is that this was some sort of Ambien sleepwalking or one of those cases where a UTI causes hallucinations. He does not have any idea that it is the middle of the night and thinks he is working and has to wait for the slacker in front of him to finish their job before he can get started.
My Name Is Mars 3 years ago
I had a UTI that caused hallucinations....it was utterly TERRIFYING but I was so relieved to know it was not my mind breaking apart.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I've never heard of this before. My gosh, I'm glad you're okay!!
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Was working on and moving into a back house/apartment that wasn’t quite ready yet. The creepy fall-down drunk contractor who I had to let go from working on it pulled up at 5am and parked but didn’t get out of his van for several minutes. When he did finally get out, he was putting himself back into his pants and zipping up. Then he went through the gate and into the private patio (where the camera couldn’t see him anymore), and was gone for 5-10 more minutes.
After that 5-10 minutes he reappeared back at his car without having retraced his steps back through the gate. I think he was looking all around to see if I had moved in yet (I’m a youngish single woman) and trying to catch me before I woke up if so. After that I think he just walked through the private yard of the front house to get out. He cryptically texted me later that he “noticed someone moved into the front house” and I freaked out because that someone is a single mom with two young kids.
He came back a couple more times but the cops were always too slow, but it’s been a while since the last visit so I think he’s done now. Or dead, who knows
Jacqui Howe 3 years ago
Dogs, cameras etc are great if you can afford them. I've found over the past 20 years that cats are the absolute best at letting you know if someone strange is around. I live up an unlit, dead end right of way with 4 houses on it, including mine. The furball knows the sound of the vehicles that live/visit. If a vehicle he doesn't recognize the sound of, he crawls under the sofa or runs upstairs to bed. He's never failed me in almost 12 years.
B-b-bird 3 years ago
Agree on that, my furry friend sits by the door around 2-3 mins before any of my family members come home. Cats have remarkable hearing.
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Azure Adams 3 years ago
You have to mention there's a gun and you have one too. You will use your gun to defend yourself. Once 911 hear that, they come much faster. Personal experience and I don't own a gun
#33
I brought my ring inside to see how sh*tty I’m sleeping. The creepiest thing I’ve recorded is me grabbing the ring at 3am, looking absolutely possessed and mumbling to myself about who knows. The video stops with the ring face down on my bed and the next video is it back in the spot it originally was. I have zero memory of any of it.
Mieke 3 years ago
Don't worry,,,,,,, oooohhhhh, how stupid do I feel now. I was thinking actual _*ring*_ like in for your finger...... Sorry guys, blonde momen, although, grey moment is probably more spot on
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#34
I have a wooden plant stand on my front porch and while we were away on vacation a few months back, we caught a big, fat raccoon climbing up on the middle shelf and knocking my philodendron off, and now the shelf permanently leans forward because mr. big butt raccoon decided he wanted to be king kong
#35
Someone holding a clearly fake police badge up to the camera. I wasn't home at the time.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
People are willing to make some risks to get in your home with you. You have to be on your toes and do background checks before opening your doors to anyone.
#36
Some dude came up to our door in the middle of the night, kept saying “Do y’all have gasoline?”, and then just walked off.
Kisses4Katie 3 years ago
It’s obviously Charlie Day as an oil baron. He has barrels of gas to sell you.
#37
Some guy came sliding up against the side of my house towards my front door like butter drippin off a hot biscuit, until he saw the ring camera and then slowly backed away, still sliding against the wall. He didnt realize I also had a camera above my garage which watched him walk out back to the street and head for the neighbor's house. Scumbag. Also some piece of sh*t stole my boyfriend's package. Hope you enjoy your $20 wax burner you committed a federal crime for, d*ckweed.
Sharon Heim 3 years ago
Love that butter off a hot biscuit saying. You must be from the south, girl!
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
Mail theft IS a federal crime. USPS is a federal agency. Until you get your mail or package, it's still considered "theirs". It's a "light" crime, and depending on $ amount, not always a felony. Still, if caught, off to a federal prison like Leavenworth!
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#38
It's not creepy, but I was just astounded. My father in law is a wood carver. He had made us this really nice bear cub climbing up on some rocks carving. It's super heavy, like 150+ lbs, of solid wood. Woke up one morning with a Ring notification at like 4 AM the night before. I figured it was a car driving by or something and went to watch it. Some dude just walked up to our front porch, picked this carving up, and started running down the street with it. I was pissed cause the carving was really nice, but completely amazed by the sheer strength to pick it up and run. Funny enough, our next door neighbor found it on FB Marketplace like 2 months later and was able to get it back for us. The bear now has a few 2" threaded rods bolted through the deck and some additional blocking I put in. You have to be the Mountain from GoT to pull this thing up now.
Mazer 3 years ago
Some a-holes will stop at nothing to steal what they think they can get money for. Statues weighing tons have been stolen.
Anne 3 years ago
Yeah, but you gotta be strong to pick up 150 lbs and run with it
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Seadog 3 years ago
Someone stole a head stone from a family cemetery. Way more than 150 pounds and right on the road with nothing to hide behind. What would you do with a headstone marked with someone elses name on it? On another occasion, 2 young guys (neither of them exceptionally big or muscular) stole a friends Honda CBR600 from my moms driveway by carrying it to a place where they could work on breaking the steering lock (which could be easily removed). They never once set it down and carried it about an 1/8 of a mile. We know they never set it down because the course they took was through a construction area and it was all soft red dirt and we could see their footprints (pressed rather deep of course considering they were carrying 500+ pounds.)
#39
Halloween. Kid trick or treating solo dressed as a creepy clown intentionally getting close to the camera and making faces. I'm terrified of clowns.
#40
Last week, my wife and I checked a notification that there was movement at the front door, but we checked it about an hour after it happened.
There was what appeared to be a small child on our porch in a winter coat and standing motionless. With the way they were standing, we couldn’t see their face. They stood like this for minutes, not moving, then just left. So creepy.
My wife had recently put out a Christmas decoration that was a holiday dinosaur so we figure the kid was just looking at that. We moved in to this house just a couple of months ago so we don’t know the kid. I’m on the lookout in case we’re in a horror movie.
yeciye 3 years ago
Maybe they were selling something. Not every small child with a determined look wandering alone will take your soul; but some do and they will make you buy stuff you don’t need.
#41
I have security cameras if that counts. I saw a person running through my yard high as a kite in their underwear, screaming at police at the time stamp of 4 in the morning. I have no idea how I didn't wake up to this, as it ended in my front yard.
I checked the cameras that morning, because this person destroyed part of my fencing that they couldn't see while running around in the dark, and I woke up to that damage and god knows what smeared all over our hood of the car. The Police never notified us that this happened and I wouldn't have ever known if I didn't have the camera.
David Woollands 3 years ago
This is why the police should make the person arrested pay for all damage that has been done!
Mazer 3 years ago
That would be a civil matter. The homeowner can get the perpetrators name from the police, document the damages, file a report and then sue the loser in court. Which may or may not be worth the trouble
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Don't have a ring doorbell do have a security cam by the front door. maybe a year or so ago i was home alone with my two dogs (this is relevant) we used to have Jehovahs witnesses come around a lot. We have a gate that blocks the house but since I was waiting for my mom to get home it was open. Anyways, i was in the other room and my mom texted me saying she got a notification that there was movement in front of the house and asks if it was me. I went to look out the window and saw one the guy with a bunch of pamphlets trying to look through the blinds to see if we were home. This is where the dogs come in, our dogs are big, really big. Our "little" dogs is 100 pound retriver and the other is a 150 pound dog the size of a small bear. They are both aboslute sweet hearts, but they can damn intimidating. They also go nuts when they hear someone knock on the door. So i went out of site of the guy on our porch and knock on a wood cabinet to wake up the dogs who promptly lost their minds. The guy didn't appreciate two huge dogs marking at his face through a window and left. We barely see Jehovahs witnesses anymore.
My Name Is Mars 3 years ago
Reminds me of this punk ass 20 something guy breaking into the workshop in our backyard and laughing hysterically at my 8 pound Pug. He wasn't laughing when I opened the back door and let out my 85 pound Rottweiler who's nickname is Bear. He's got a disturbingly deep and intimidating bark/howl and a mouthful of giant teeth. He's sweet as pie but the guy trying to break in didn't know that. I never saw anyone jump a fence and take off running like that dude.
readingthequibbler 3 years ago
Yes. I had a guy looking through my front door when I was home alone a few years ago. Well, my dog was in my brothers room and his door shuts on its own, so I just opened the door. The guy almost fell backwards and split his head trying to get off my porch.
Load More Replies... Jacqui Howe 3 years ago
Ahh, Jehovah's Witness door knocking looking for converts, also Mormons. Fart o'clock on a Saturday or Sunday morning. I simply tell them that I belong to a Spiritualist church....haven't seen any of them for about 4 years!
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
I had a friend who had a long driveway. He saw them coming and had time to prepare. He took off his shirt, smeared his bare chest with ketchup, grabbed his samurai sword and bong. When they knocked a few times, he flung the door open and screamed "WHAAT?!?!". They galloped off and never returned!
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Seadog 3 years ago (edited)
JW tried to go to my cousins house. Half way down the driveway his Doberman steps out from behind the 8 foot hedge that runs the length on one side (other side is a forest that goes downhill until it reaches the highway where the embankment is as steep as they can make a dirt embankment without reinforcements - after going through about 50 feet of very large briar bushes). So they decide to leave. As they turn around, the neighbors German Shepard steps out from behind the other end of the hedge. There's no going through or over this hedge so we're not sure what they did to escape without getting bit. We got this much of the story from someone who saw the dogs move into position but couldn't see the outcome.
Sebastian George 3 years ago
My aunt used to be my neighbor. JW come and ring both our door bells when my aunt wasn't home. I tell them, I am an atheist and that my aunt next door isn't interested either. Two weeks later one woman comes back with a teenage boy in tow. I had just sat down to watch live football. This time they only ring my aunt's doorbell (she was still away). I heard that and checked, opened the window and said, "JW again? I told you two weeks ago we're BOTH not interested." The woman says, she wants to hear that from my aunt herself! So I said to the boy, "And you? I'm sure, you'd also rather watch the game than wander around the neighborhood annoying people with that nonsense!" They never came back.
#43
Earlier this week I caught video of a guy who walked up to my door and hung a cloth, reusable shopping bag from my mailbox. The bag contained one old work glove and a crumpled up, wet, partially frozen (It was cold that night) t-shirt. Basically decided to give me his trash. I promptly threw it in the garbage can with-out investigating anything closer. It was quite unnerving.
#44
Around 6:00am an obviously homeless man rang our doorbell a few times. He began to reach his hands into his pants and talk to his penis. After a few seconds he then tried to climb through a cracked window above the door. It was too tall and he gave up immediately. He then walked around the side porch, put all of his belongings nicely in a corner, and left. Never saw him again.
april jenkins 3 years ago
if he climbed up the front door with his tackle still out your cam may have captured it smack up front
Bisexual_idiot 3 years ago
i have lots of questions, but the most important one is: what did i just read???!!!!
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
So sad. The plight of the unhoused is a blot on this nation. It could be almost anywhere, of course.
#45
My friend was awoken by his ring doorbell alert in the early hours. Coming up to his front door was an armed police raid. Fully dressed for a party… Helmets, ballistic shields the lot. He had a polite chat with the police via ring, they broke the door down anyway. Ex girlfriend had made an allegation of domestic violence so he had to surrender his licensed shotguns a week previously. She later had said he also had crime links & unlicensed weapons in his house… hence the raid. He wasn’t actually in the house when they raided… but got to see it all play out via ring via his phone. They searched the house and found nothing. The crime & gun allegation was a lie… and the domestic violence allegation was also dropped when she had lied about at least one incident, as it had all been recorded via ring.
Mazer 3 years ago
False reporting is going to get her some serious time out, and the ex-bf can sue her for damages in civil court
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
One would hope people like that can't get away with that s**t but I've seen it happen.
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
And naturally, the police are NOT liable for any damage they cause in executing such a search, even if the pretense for said search was entirely false.
#46
A couple years ago, a 22ish year old door to door salesman came and knocked on the door like a Sheriff with a warrant. So that was already startling. I turned off the TV and ran upstairs to my dad. He asked who it was and they replied with “moxie” (Moxie is a extermination company) My dad told him he wasn’t interested but then dude started BANGING on the door. So my dad grabs his gun and tells him to leave immediately. He pretends like he can’t hear him and incessantly kept at it. My dad yelled that he was gonna call the cops and THATS when he “heard” and ran off calling my dad a b*tch. When we looked at the footage he had the most sinister smile. Really eerie.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
They know what time it is when the Sheriff comes knocking to serve them warrants, lol ! Took off running to get dad to deal with them. It's always unfortunate if someone has to have one visit for that reason.
#47
I think I found a guy trying to stake out my place. He came up to my door, knocked it, tried to ring the doorbell (the doorbell was broken), and finally rang the Ring doorbell. He looked shocked to see it working, and he quickly took off in his car. My place was kind of burglarized a year before; I caught the burglar outside and screamed at him.
#48
Literally creepy: we have a gecko that hangs out on top of the camera. Apparently he figured out that moths and other critters are attracted to the infrared and he ambushes them. He looks like an alien when his head fills the whole camera shot.
Mazer 3 years ago
I love love love geckos. The used to lay their eggs on the window frames at my old place in Hawaii. Heavy sigh. I miss their chirps. Such cool critters
John David Miller 3 years ago
I agree with you. Where do they lay they’re eggs normally?
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Used to teach online in the early hours of the morning and saw a man I was pretty sure I saw at an intersection a few days before with a cardboard sign approach the house. Once he got closer I switched to the Ring to observe. He crawled up the stairs on hands and knees then came to the door in a crouched position and scratched on the door. I was freaked out. My Jack Russell is usually asleep when I teach, so he didn't immediately react. I was still teaching, so quickly put myself on mute and yelled "Who wants a treat?!" Doggo immediately awoke and heard the scratching and went bonkers. I saw the guy running down the drive and was creeped out for several days.
#50
A mama bear and her cubs getting into our trash cans and then getting a little too curious about our cars and coming down the driveway to investigate. Our dogs scared them off as soon as they got too close to the house, but getting that alert and watching the video made the door between us suddenly feel very flimsy.
#51
Where I live, our houses are surrounded by walls so no one can actually walk from the street to the front door as they would have to go through the gate first. The people across the street from us came over to ask if we had camera footage from the night before as someone had broken into their house. When we reviewed the camera footage from the security camera, we saw that they had attempted to come into our house first by using an electricity box to try and climb over the wall. Fortunately, the wall and fence was still too high for them to get over but it was scary nonetheless.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I hope there was some good photographic evidence on the video for the police to catch their asses
#52
Mine - nothing exciting. But one morning my husband and I were out early for a run, and we saw a teenager walk up to a house, open the front door and walk in. Seconds later, screaming, yelling, teenager books it out there and takes off down the street. About 3 minutes later the neighbor posted in our Ring Neighborhood group about some random kid walking into their house and scaring the cr*p out of them. Turns out that this kid was texted with a friend and his friend told him “doors open come on in” and he was at the wrong house. And also apparently wrong house keeps their front door unlocked. Ensue fierce neighborhood debate on “kids walking around on their phones” “not knocking” “why is your front door unlocked at 6 am”
Mazer 3 years ago
I was raise in a house with an open door policy, unlocked 24/7. We were never ripped off. My current neighbor is the same way.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
My parents were from NYC. Doors always locked, even in suburbia across the country.
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#53
Drunk guy dressed as Ronald McDonald throwing fries and swearing. Later that night he would be arrested at a Burger King for screaming anti Semitic slurs.
Florence likes women 3 years ago
it would have been funny just the first part but also creepy as hell. we stop at antisemitism
#54
The little red flag thing on our mailbox rising up and coming back down several times one night. There was no wind, no storms, no weather, a complete clear night. We decided to convince ourselves that it was the wind so we don't get freaked out by a paranormal event.
Little after a year later, we caught on the inside kitchen camera, the roll of paper towels completely coming undone by itself. That one REALLY freaked us out since it took several seconds of continuous unrolling. Now we have a praying candle a Bible and a crucifix in the house.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
I can tell you the candle, bible and crucifix won't do s**t. This ain't a movie script.
John David Miller 3 years ago
If it’s a demon or poltergeist then actually that will help significantly
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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago
I've seen the paper towel roll unroll itself before in my kitchen. No ghost. Just the roll being offset by the overhanging end
Patrick O'Harris 3 years ago
Temperature and pressure change all the time and depending on the material, making it move. our Mailbox used to open in fall every now and then. We were confused until my brother (chemist with a thing for physics) explained it. Nothing paranormal, just unknown (yet).
#55
The first week I had my doorbell cam put in, 2 people pulled up in front of my house and had a fight.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Might have been part of the entertainment package that came with the doorbell cam.
#56
I once caught this man at my door step who repeatedly kept ringing the doorbell and calling out a name that was either Serena or Selena. He was there for like 30 minutes until he started to kick my door. I wasn’t home at the time but my girlfriend was and she called the police. Obviously he was on something.
#57
A friend of mine had a woman come up to his home at 3 in the morning, drunk, and try to open the door with her set of keys. She then started banging, calling out some woman's name, which woke up my friend and one of his sisters. The woman then began to make threats. Cops came, turns out the woman walked for 3 hours from a nightclub in the next town over, and had gotten crazy drunk there. She was thrown out of the club because she was trying to start a fight with the other women because none of the guys were hitting on her or something. Her home was 3 miles from the club, in the other direction.
#58
I heard the unmistakable sounds of gunshots in front of my house. My bulldog ran towards it and burst through our storm door like Macho Man Randy Savage. Our Ring camera caught that motion, me screaming and tackling her on our front porch while two cars full of idiots shot at each other passing by my house.
#59
I had an insane vagrant-looking person on my front porch for about 10 minutes at 3:00am. He was having a conversation with an imaginary person. I could make out him saying something like “I’ll get the shovel Tommy, just dont hit me anymore”
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
☹️ the never ending nightmare life seems to be for some people.
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B-b-bird 3 years ago
The amount of sleepwalkers in all of these stories... whoa. Before, I did not even believe that this is the thing
Buren 3 years ago
Someone committed murder in his sleep, ironically he was also the detective who solved the case
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#60
I saw something that looked like my dog at dusk it definitely was not my dog only because I was sitting next to her on the couch. It was terrifying because I was home alone too.
#61
Kind of related but about 2 days after I was hit by a truck (whole other thing) but my mother had noticed a man who she didnt know in our alley (we have one for the front and back of the house) peeking around our garage staring at our house abd my mother and had yelled for me. I ran upstairs and out the back door yelling at him until he had scurried off. Well after he was arrested we had found out he was previously convicted of murder. If I have the video I will link it. Tldr: Murder staring out our house
#62
A couple of guys attacked my bushes with a machete, and threw the branches in the driveway. My family thought I ran into the bushes and scolded me, before I showed them the footage. Still don't know why this happened.
#63
Someone was trying my door, I obviously spoke through and said “what the actual f*ck you doing?” they bricked it and was saying “ooh, oh sorry mate, wrong house”
#64
A neighbor's cat went missing so we checked our Ring to see if they walked past our house. All we saw was a guy riding his bike down our street at 4 am. After we found a cage trap in the woods behind our house, we took a closer look at the video and realized the guy was riding his bike one-handed with the cat slung over his other shoulder. The police confirmed it was someone with a history of fighting dogs and was likely trapping cats for bait. We moved shortly after.
Sharon Heim 3 years ago
Oh, that's horrible. If the police knew who he was, I wish they'd gone after him and arrested him.
#65
just my neighbor's cat and her demon eyes staring at it.
ThatOneWriter 3 years ago
Nah, they're holding the line between spooky things and humans to keep us safe. 🥰
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Two guys checking porch/front door handle and car doors. My wife's car was unlocked but I don't think they took anything. There were a few cars stolen in our neighborhood around that time so my guess is they were looking for keys.
#67
Someone pounding on my door at 6am I went to open the door with my gun in my hand (I lived very deep in the bush) but decided to check the ring first. It was the West Virginia State Police looking for the previous tennant to the rental I lived in. I now simply never answer the door when someone knocks and I hide in the bathroom while checking the ring camera lol
Jonathan 3 years ago
Back when I was only 18, I was cleaning my flat and unfortunately singing along to whatever awful music that was popular back then whilst doing so. Took a break and heard creeping and shushing behind the front door. Silently crept to it and looked out the spyhole to see 2 police officers, 1 with their ear pressed against the door. Opened the door and asked them what the hell they were doing. They simply pushed past me and said they were looking for a previous tennant and me being so young wasn't really clued up on my rights didn't even challenge them. They opened cupboards, looked under my bed, behind shower curtain, everywhere then just walked out.
#68
Heard someone knocking at my door at 2 AM. Opened the app that streams my porch cam. Its facing towards my door. Its a small girl with extremely long black hair standing there not moving at all like the Grudge movie.
Elli Rahim 3 years ago
Line of salt in front of the door and keep handfuls of red beans to throw at her. The Ring indeed.
#69
Had mine detect the sound of someone screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night. Was only like 2 seconds then stopped and didn't happen again. Then there was the time there was a shootout across the street and it picked up the sounds of gunshots. I could hear the crack of the bullets on the opposite side of the house, but sadly not on camera.
#70
Bunch of cops with guns storming the house next door due to q robbery. That lead to me finding out my neighbor who is so blind he has a seeing eye dog has an open carry permit and a big hand gun.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
I want to go to the gun range with your neighbor. Some blind people are hella amazing. I know two stories of blind guys using echo location one clicks his tongue (he can ride a bike, sensing things that are around him), the other taps his leg with his hand (he single handedly runs a working cattle ranch, has help only when absolutely needed). People can be amazing
#71
Not me but my aunt has one. It caught some guy walking up to her front door and walking away as soon as he noticed the doorbell. My gut tells me he was up to no good
#72
Not a doorbell but a ring camera on the garage caught someone pulling door handles to see if they were unlocked. There was a string of car break ins about a year ago in the neighbourhood so not too surprising. The scariest part about it was I had just gotten home 5 minutes ago. Just an un settling feeling knowing I was just out there and now someone with malicious intent in the spot I was standing.
#73
My neighbor shooting something at his girlfriends window then leaving like nothing happened
#74
My neighbor has a ring and it caught someone checking car doors to see if they’d open. Her video wasn’t clear and she asked me to see if my dashcam got a better view. I wouldn’t have even known to look without her telling me. And as you’d expect, we turned the videos over the cops and they did nothing
#75
My ex roommate taking naked pictures of herself after a heavy snow fall. Creepy a) because the last thing I wanted to see was my roommate naked and b) because I know the pics were for her married boyfriend
#76
Not me but my relative said there was a guy roaming the street in front of his house carrying an assault rifle. He had just bought his house and had just installed a security system which includes the Ring doorbell.
What do you think ?
Demon Child 3 years ago
Not creepy, but funny We had this huge inflatable pool in the backyard, and it started loosing air. we looked around, and we found holes and claw marks. We do have a cat, but he's not that stupid. We eventually checked the ring footage and sure enough: an entire family of racoons playing in my yard.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
This thread is about doorbell cameras but it's without any pictures (with BP IOS app)???
Vic D 3 years ago
I agree. I have a ring doorbell and if I had a strange story to tell I would have the images to back it up.
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Pat Bond 3 years ago (edited)
You have to be quite careful now in the UK on how you install ring doorbells and other surveillance equipment. A landmark case has recently made it possible for you to recieve a £100K fine for invading your neighbours privacy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58911296
Dill 3 years ago (edited)
This is not really new - just people not realising the law and putting up ring doorbells without thinking about what they can view and record. They would be better with traditional CCTV and making sure the cameras point at their property only. You can film and record but you need to make people a) aware you are and b) not store any footage or c) use it to watch the activity of your neighbours. If people object then you should really make some adjustments.
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Glirpy 3 years ago (edited)
Even creepier to think about is what the Ring doorbell company has recorded you doing. Oh, they’re watching you, alright!
Rachel Tucker 3 years ago
Our cctv showed us just how much our neighbour dislikes us. We've had on going issues with the bloke for years but on one instance the camera caught him driving up our driveway, ramming a tumble dryer towards the garage. It must have caused some damage to his car - it did to the tarmac. We only put it out for the scrap man to collect. He then proceeded to dead head all his flowers and throw it on our grass. Strange man.
All's Gravy 3 years ago
Further to @Pat Bond: Very true. Video and audio captured outside of your own property boundary is potentially in breach of personal data rights. Of course, as well as providing data to Amazon for free, which they sell on - potentially making everyone more vulnerable to burglary with a pieced together schedule of comings and goings. But also Ring is hackable.
Robert T 3 years ago
I have a camera watching my cars in our communal parking. It captures more wildlife than anything else - regular visits from a fox, a blue tit and once a little wren looking for spiders round the camera. Funniest was strange man having a good look through the windows of my car - turned out to be neighbour's father who was visiting and he liked my car. I bought it because we had a spate of cars getting scratched by kids on scooters - thankfully I haven't had to use it to confront their parents to get them to pay for damage.
Olga Dremina 3 years ago
In school we learnt that during cold war there were silly rumours in America that there are wild bears walking freely on the streets of Russian towns and cities, and we were like "no way, no one could believe such bs!". Turns out there are bears, lions and racoons on American streets. I feel weird. We have birds, stray cats and dogs, squirrels in parks, and i saw a rat two or three times. Also - gunshots?!
Yettichild 3 years ago
Well, maybe in Alaska there are grizzly bears that walk through the streets and possibly a black bear walking in a street at night. They do like to raid bird feeders. A friend of mine had a black bear raid her bird feeder. As for Lions, maybe they meant mountain lions? Also known as Cougars or Pumas depending on where you are, they don't like to be seen, but are occasionally at night. I get lots of pictures of them on my trail cameras, but have only seen one in person once. Raccoons are pretty common around here and I see coyotes pretty often too.
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mamafrog 3 years ago
Had one looking at my mom's front porch because of disruptive relative. We also caught the local tweaker wandering around her front yard, using her garden hose to cool off just generally being creepy. Had to drive thirty minutes to her house several times that week to run him off and have the cops trespass him so he could be arrested later. He finally quit coming around but mom has dementia and knocked the camera down because she was "being watched". We finally got it back up where she can't see it.
Ang.stl 3 years ago
I live on the same property as my parents and a niece and her family. One day I heard a noise outside and looked all around and couldn’t find anything, but then “person detected at gate” popped up. When I looked, I saw this guy just walking straight up the driveway. Called the cops, took about 10 minutes for 2 deputies to get here. Go to show one the video and the other starts walking around the houses and outbuildings. I’m zooming in on the guy and before I even hand it over, I realize it’s my niece’s husband. He changed shifts and totally threw me off. He was taking their garbage cans to the road. Sigh. I was embarrassed to the cops then laughed my butt off telling my parents.
Demon Child 3 years ago
Not creepy, but funny We had this huge inflatable pool in the backyard, and it started loosing air. we looked around, and we found holes and claw marks. We do have a cat, but he's not that stupid. We eventually checked the ring footage and sure enough: an entire family of racoons playing in my yard.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
This thread is about doorbell cameras but it's without any pictures (with BP IOS app)???
Vic D 3 years ago
I agree. I have a ring doorbell and if I had a strange story to tell I would have the images to back it up.
Load More Replies... Pat Bond 3 years ago (edited)
You have to be quite careful now in the UK on how you install ring doorbells and other surveillance equipment. A landmark case has recently made it possible for you to recieve a £100K fine for invading your neighbours privacy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58911296
Dill 3 years ago (edited)
This is not really new - just people not realising the law and putting up ring doorbells without thinking about what they can view and record. They would be better with traditional CCTV and making sure the cameras point at their property only. You can film and record but you need to make people a) aware you are and b) not store any footage or c) use it to watch the activity of your neighbours. If people object then you should really make some adjustments.
Load More Replies... Glirpy 3 years ago (edited)
Even creepier to think about is what the Ring doorbell company has recorded you doing. Oh, they’re watching you, alright!
Rachel Tucker 3 years ago
Our cctv showed us just how much our neighbour dislikes us. We've had on going issues with the bloke for years but on one instance the camera caught him driving up our driveway, ramming a tumble dryer towards the garage. It must have caused some damage to his car - it did to the tarmac. We only put it out for the scrap man to collect. He then proceeded to dead head all his flowers and throw it on our grass. Strange man.
All's Gravy 3 years ago
Further to @Pat Bond: Very true. Video and audio captured outside of your own property boundary is potentially in breach of personal data rights. Of course, as well as providing data to Amazon for free, which they sell on - potentially making everyone more vulnerable to burglary with a pieced together schedule of comings and goings. But also Ring is hackable.
Robert T 3 years ago
I have a camera watching my cars in our communal parking. It captures more wildlife than anything else - regular visits from a fox, a blue tit and once a little wren looking for spiders round the camera. Funniest was strange man having a good look through the windows of my car - turned out to be neighbour's father who was visiting and he liked my car. I bought it because we had a spate of cars getting scratched by kids on scooters - thankfully I haven't had to use it to confront their parents to get them to pay for damage.
Olga Dremina 3 years ago
In school we learnt that during cold war there were silly rumours in America that there are wild bears walking freely on the streets of Russian towns and cities, and we were like "no way, no one could believe such bs!". Turns out there are bears, lions and racoons on American streets. I feel weird. We have birds, stray cats and dogs, squirrels in parks, and i saw a rat two or three times. Also - gunshots?!
Yettichild 3 years ago
Well, maybe in Alaska there are grizzly bears that walk through the streets and possibly a black bear walking in a street at night. They do like to raid bird feeders. A friend of mine had a black bear raid her bird feeder. As for Lions, maybe they meant mountain lions? Also known as Cougars or Pumas depending on where you are, they don't like to be seen, but are occasionally at night. I get lots of pictures of them on my trail cameras, but have only seen one in person once. Raccoons are pretty common around here and I see coyotes pretty often too.
Load More Replies... mamafrog 3 years ago
Had one looking at my mom's front porch because of disruptive relative. We also caught the local tweaker wandering around her front yard, using her garden hose to cool off just generally being creepy. Had to drive thirty minutes to her house several times that week to run him off and have the cops trespass him so he could be arrested later. He finally quit coming around but mom has dementia and knocked the camera down because she was "being watched". We finally got it back up where she can't see it.
Ang.stl 3 years ago
I live on the same property as my parents and a niece and her family. One day I heard a noise outside and looked all around and couldn’t find anything, but then “person detected at gate” popped up. When I looked, I saw this guy just walking straight up the driveway. Called the cops, took about 10 minutes for 2 deputies to get here. Go to show one the video and the other starts walking around the houses and outbuildings. I’m zooming in on the guy and before I even hand it over, I realize it’s my niece’s husband. He changed shifts and totally threw me off. He was taking their garbage cans to the road. Sigh. I was embarrassed to the cops then laughed my butt off telling my parents.
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