Weird experience today... someone following me

[Landpimp]

Bear the wonder Lab is working on eating a complete ballistic vest, will toss some red-blood like paint on it, toss it in the yard

because of my last job, I often(like daily) went down private drives ect......oddly no one was ever worried, I just told them what I was doing, never just hauled ass away.

if you do a CCTV system, make sure you post on the property that they are being recorded, otherwise you might just get sued, even if they break in and are cought, its a privacy thing I guess. Same with an alarm, the bad guys can bitch it wasnt marked, I know it sounds insane...but this advice comes from my secutity company

what I really want is a remote type "dome" on the roof, with lasers and thermal(gun would be nice), so when someone comes on the property, it will track them with 2 nice lasers

Shrunken heads on pikes along either side of the driveway.
Odd random piles of bones at visible locations along the drive.
Spent 12 gauge husks @ driveway entry and near the stacks of bones.
Ranging stakes marked in meters, whose numbers get lower nearer the house.
A tree chipper in a handy obvious location.
Hopefully not too subtle for the mutt(s) to understand?

 

[feralmerril]

Like landpimp, I had a job where all day long, every day, I was on private property. I was a foreman for a wood preserving company and we treated old utility poles for groundline decay. That meant I dug up power or telephone poles all over the country. I seldom was ever questioned except for honest curosity. On the average day I might be in 50 backyards!
Sure with THAT much tresspassing I had to explain once in a great while but next to none considering the frequency! Once I was stopped with a moonshiner with a 30-30.
Had to laugh at farmer. He came out of the house as we were digging around a power pole in his back yard. He said, OK, OK, I will pay my power bill!
This is why I have a hard time with some paranoia, and have a hard time takeing seriously some of these subjects.
I will admitt that job was 45 years ago, and times have changed, but people must still be doing my old job around the country!

 

[roarindan]

Once I had a smal dump truck pull onto my dirt drive way and try an sell me 2-3 yds. of asphault they had left over from a neighbors job, i can see all my neighbors and none had new drives. i simply pointed out the driveway and they put the truck in reverse and left. I've also had 2 guys in an older van stop and ask if they could look for antiques in our old farm house, my son stayed with one in the garage while I showed the other the loft over the wood shed, they didnt seem to interested in antiqueing after we kept an eye on em. BUT!!!>>>>>this summer in our new home, same deal, but I wasnt there, wifey was and told them my husband will be back within the hr. come back and ask hi9m, they never did. she didnt think to get their plate.

 

[roarindan]

Also one day I noticed my neighbor across the street had his Stihl chainsaw fall off his pickup at the end of his driveway, as it was on his land I didnt go move it thinking he'd be right back.Well, i'm sitting in the front room watching tv an my neighbors house is right across the road, a small truck drives down the road , stops backs up to the saw, driver gets out ,quickly puts saw in his truck , starts to drive away but stops and backs down my driveway, I think to myself he's gonna leave the saw here or ask if I know the owner, so i get up and head to the back door. He backs to the door, looks at me thru the window, puts the truck in drive and leaves!!!!! I write down his plate call the troopers,( my brother in law is in troopers at the local barracks),b/l gets the case and is waiting for the perp when he gets to his house.

 

[feralmerril]

Roaring dan, what was the end of that case? I suspect he might just have beat the rap? Sounds like a gray area a good lawyer might beat!
Sounds like if the guy didnt beat it, it was because he didnt know how to talk! Of course, we know he is guilty.

 

[eisenhower]

american pit bulls make good alarm systems. and they act like lap dogs towards there owners

 

[roarindan]

Feralmerril, he waws charged with robbery, but the judge let him go cause he admited to it and there wasnt much work involved.

 

[Landpimp]

I also had the opertunity to set off more than a few alarm systems accidently over the years, would say 20 or so, in each case, I just called the # on the sign/sticker....and told them what happened and who I was....and they all turned off the alarms for me.......now aint that great! Not that the cops would show up, most alarm companys will not send the PD for 30min+ after the alarm goes off....

not my security company

also met some of the neatest folks going down private drives, but not alot of bad guys drive the rigs I do....and I have great people skills

 

[Bearcat]

File a police report of a "suspicious vehicle" with as much info as you can remember. The local LEOs may just run across these same guys and do a stop to get their identity. This has prevented more than one burgulary......

 

[Wayne02]

if you do a CCTV system, make sure you post on the property that they are being recorded, otherwise you might just get sued, even if they break in and are cought, its a privacy thing I guess. Same with an alarm, the bad guys can bitch it wasnt marked, I know it sounds insane...but this advice comes from my secutity company

Can you expand on this a bit? Is this driven by state law, local regulation, established legal precedence, or?

How much signage is needed? If I have 16 cameras spread throughout the property can I put one of these generic signs just any old place on the property and be good? It doesn't make much sense to put one of these signs near a covert camera installation location.

Also, what is your take on wireless video systems, are they ready for prime time yet in terms of clarity, reliability and range?

 

[sonny]

If two people in the car, I'd carry that gun handy. If only one guy, I figure he was lost, and then didn't want to ask directions...
Be safe...carry well.
Sonny

 

[flop-shank]

Man... today I hid my car, sat up in the woods in my snow ghillie suit in the 20 degree weather and just waited from dawn until dusk... nothin!

If you are going to do that, make the car look gone and then set up in the house from a good defendable position (the top of a staircase is the best). If they enter the building and you go in after them, they may get the defender's advantage, not so if you're in the house already. I would hate to be on the phone with the cops, who are miles away, and be forced to watch as they rape my life's work. It's warmer in the house and you can read while you wait.

They may be trying to pattern when you come home and the potential burglary may occur after the holidays are over and people are back to regular schedules.

 

[klondike]

A while ago my son and I were looking for a shorcut and we followed a narrow rutted path through a field. Eventually the ruts looked to be leading to a house but we felt that the path would lead us out to the correct road.
When we got up to the house we both noticed a large chainlink enclosure.
My teenaged son aged a few years as he found a bengal tiger eyeing him from the wire not 3 feet away.
Quick reverse...dust flying and never took that trail again.

 

[USAF385]

Grrrr.....

So... guess what?

I got a call today from a nice old farmer a few miles down the road....

He was outside setting up targets for some rifle shooting when a car pulled up his driveway. He also has a long driveway and watched the car come for a little bit. As it got closer, he started to walk over toward it...

The car turned around in his roundabout and headed on off. I guess they didn't like the sight of the farmer with his rifle slung across his back.

From his description.. same car. He called the cops after I told him my story.

Someones up to no good, and I don't like it one bit.

 

[flop-shank]

If I were you, I would seriously consider organizing those who live in your area and making sure someone is home all the time and patrol the area. You could watch yours and your neighbors property while they are off shopping and perhaps they could watch your place while you're at work, school, or whatever. If you and several neighbors live on a street, or network of streets to which there's no outlet, it would probably be as simple as watching the intersection that allows access to your enclave. Record the time and license number of any unknown vehicles that enter or leave.

 

[rchance]

If it was the same car I'd definately call the cops on that one because their scoping the neighborhood. maybe the farmer with the rifle scared them off or maybe they'll be back for the farmers rifle. I hate thieves.

 

[reerc]

Many good suggestions here. One more is to contact your local law enforcement agency and make a report. It may stand you in good stead should you be forced to defend yourself and it may be there have been similar incidents ( or worse ) in your area.

Same thought I had. Not that they could keep you safe, but if you did have an altercation, there would be a record of your concern.

Best of luck to you, sir - stay safe.

 

[Landpimp]

no law.....just a "cover your ass" when the perp aint dead....ya know when he sues you for shooting his poor helpless self or if you catch him on camera(whatever) its just a good idea when court comes, you know his privacy may have been vilotated.......

just one should do, just someplace you can point to and say "see"

Can you expand on this a bit? Is this driven by state law, local regulation, established legal precedence, or?

How much signage is needed? If I have 16 cameras spread throughout the property can I put one of these generic signs just any old place on the property and be good? It doesn't make much sense to put one of these signs near a covert camera installation location.

Also, what is your take on wireless video systems, are they ready for prime time yet in terms of clarity, reliability and range?

 

[jimmyj]

Hi, USAF385:
Its time to relocate your Moonshine Still.
Jimmy

 

[MrJT]

Best of luck... this is a crappy situation.

Time to bring out the claymores I think!