Check out the video clip below comprised of a collection of event recordings posted to my WYZE account over the course of a few days earlier this week while I was on my cruise.
First, and most egregiously, is that simpleton neighbor Steve Walker-esque LawnBoy (now renamed Nosey Fuck or just NoFu) walking right up to my bedroom window and sneering into my security camera! What the fuck!
I mean it's one thing to notice that your neighbor might have a security camera and you may be filmed and maybe that ruffles your feathers a bit, but too fucking bad because it's my property and the purpose is to focus on my property. The fact that your property is in the background is inconsequential and frankly you can't do anything about it anyway.
Then the clips go on, and I admit some of them may be out of sequence because I'm not familiar with the Canva editing software I was using so it was difficult to arrange the clips properly, but they show more troubling images.
All manner of bric-a-brac, paddy whack, give a dog a bone, and I can tell you right now, before very long, it's going to look like a Sanford and Son junkyard next door.
Then there's the traipsing onto my carport without respect of individual property boundaries including letting the dog trot along and plopping a potted plant directly astride one of my carport support posts, the one that actually has a downspout so when it rains, a gush of water will displace the potting soil and make a muddy splashing mess all over my carport?! More WTF!
I've only discovered this all this morning since, of course, I ignored WYZE notifications while I was in the Bahamas since I wasn't going to get snagged with any international roaming charges, so I haven't had a chance to discuss this with my dear neighbors yet. I'm still debating on how to approach this with them.
I don't want to come out and be an outright bitch, even though that's kind of how I feel, because kind of like I mentioned in my post regarding dealing with small-minded people like Connie and Mike who can mess with my life if they wanted to for whatever reason, I tread lightly with these kind of folks. Like them, I got a feeling that these neighbors would also be easily perturbed by having what they would consider a snotty, stuck up neighbor.
So I may let the trespassing issues slide for now, but that plant has to move. Seeing all that junk they were moving, I have the feeling that they're just testing the waters to see if they could actually install a lot of crap right up against my carport support posts like maybe that lattice they were carrying. I've got to make it clear, no, crystal clear, that I want my side of the alley to remain free and clear of any crap. I'll refrain from using the term crap though, I think that might piss them off. Hoarders like them don't take kindly to people dissing their useless shit.
I think I might play it a little sly though in that on occasion, while going out to my car, I may let out a little hum of the well-known theme song to the TV show Sanford and Son. Kudos number one if they can identify it. Mucho kudos number two if they can mentally figure out that I'm being slightly passive aggressive in conveying my opinion that they're turning the neighborhood, or at least their slice of it, into a 1970s Watts Los Angeles ghetto.
And BTW, they're no longer the SawBoys. A SawBoy improves things. They're destined to destroy. So onward with the Sanford and Son theme we go and they'll now be called Fred and Esther. (Yes I know Esther was Fred Sanford's sister-in-law, not his common law wife or girlfriend or whatever the neighbors' situation is, but it'll have to do since, as we know, Elizabeth, Fred's wife, is "up there.")
EDIT: I left to go shopping at Walmart around 9:30 but I guess they didn't see me but when I came back, Doreen AKA Esther asked how my trip was. We bantered small talk a bit and I brought up the plant. I told her I liked the area to be free of stuff and she seemed to understand right away. To further hit home my reasoning, I clarified that the plant is right under my downspout. She blamed the placement on Dan AKA Fred. It kept tipping over when it was placed more centrally in the front yard so he placed it there to prop it against something, I guess temporarily. A few hours later, I watched on my camera as one of the Lamonts removed it and put it back with the other junk on the side of their house.
Who are these two Lamonts by the way? Are they going to live there too? Don't know, and don't want to ask.
I was watching them this afternoon, again through the security AKA spy camera, and they were pacing back and forth looking totally confused. It took me a few more minutes after watching their odd behavior to notice one of the oddest things about persons like them, that is, of their age group. Why didn't they have phones in their hands? I watched them for nearly an hour and a half and not once did either of them ever pull out a phone. I don't think they have phones. How is that possible? For kids their age? They got to be in their late teens, maybe almost in their early twenties. Also how is it that they're available to help these old people everyday for hours on end? What's their relation to them?
Again, I am surely not going to ask. But man, it makes me wish my security, or, I guess I mean, my spy camera, had a working microphone that could pick up all the chatter that goes on over there. I have a feeling, the drama is just beginning.
Look out Legacy of the House of the Boo Boos, it appears your time may be considered a time of peace and tranquility in comparative retrospect. I have a feeling I'll soon have to figure out which gang colors I'll be flashin'.
EDIT #2: A day later and in fact they have constructed a new structure using those lattice panels as make-shift walls and the party tent as the support and roofing. Oh man, I'm sure that'll hold in even a moderate storm. Thank goodness Florida never has any of those! HA! All I know is that when it blows apart...and of course it will...no chunks better hit my car or my house!
After Fred drove the Lamonts back to wherever they come from, I used the opportunity to quickly open my blinds and reposition my camera slightly in order to better focus on more of the Sanford and Sons Empire of Junk, now partially obscured by the ghetto's choice of lattice work.
EDIT #3: I ordered a 3rd WYZE cam, this one a $20 WYZE Cam OG and I plan to use it for the porch cam so I took the current porch cam and at 3:00 a.m. positioned it in the far southern corner of the carport facing window of the living room, tweaked both of the cameras to just the right position so that they get maximum coverage and minimum wasted space like the gap between the screen and the window pane and voila, I think we have pretty ample coverage of the entire Eastern Front.
EDIT #4: And finally, as you can see in this afternoon shot with the sun shining on their screened-in porch, the Sanfords have installed bamboo blinds further obscuring their goings on from my spying security cameras.
EDIT #5: I swear I truly hope this is the last fucking update to this post because I think I'm really driving myself crazy over this security shit. Anyway, I went and bought another camera, as I mentioned above, and it came in today. Set up was easy of course since I'm familiar with this brand of camera. This is an older version but frankly the quality looks pretty good and quite similar to the newer versions. The only negative is that I'm kind of holding back on paying an extra $1.60 something a month or so, I forgot exactly what they want to charge, for their Cam Plus service or whatever it's called which gives you the ability to have longer event videos, unlimited video time, and some other features, I don't know, but the biggest feature is the ability to view live footage on the web because as you will see, I've set up another control center specifically for video surveillance. That's right, Shammy's in full CIA headquarters mode! I kinda feel like Gene Hackman in The Conversation but instead of being driven mad over hidden listening devices and cameras and tearing up the place looking for them, I'm going nuts installing them! Argh!
