security camera

Lo Down · January 15, 2008, 10:37 AM

How cheap can a person set up a motion activated camera outdoors? Still, or video, it wouldn't matter.
Next door neighbor has been losing fuel from his log truck sometime in the wee hours of the morning.
I was thinking along the lines of small fish hooks strung between his house and the truck.......... suspended about knee high and tied to a string of a couple dozen empty cans or bells.................. Like in the movie Stalag 17. Unfortunately, we don't have any armed guard towers nearby.

Floorguy · January 15, 2008, 01:24 PM

There are many game cames that take a picture by movement triggering.

Moultree has some real inexpensive 35mm, and a digital, for under $100.

There are video and internet accessable cameras, too. Although a little costly. They are Bear proof, so if hung right, you don't have to worry about them walking away.

Darol Wester · January 15, 2008, 07:59 PM

A motion light could do wonders too if it was set in the right spot. Though...I do like the fish hook set up but use some 50 lb. line and tie it to an empty metal garbage can.

Lo Down · January 16, 2008, 01:16 AM

Floorguy said

There are many game cames that take a picture by movement triggering.

Moultree has some real inexpensive 35mm, and a digital, for under $100.
Cool stuff there Floorguy. I'm gonna pass that on to him. Maybe he and his employer could go halves on it.

There are video and internet accessable cameras, too. Although a little costly. They are Bear proof, so if hung right, you don't have to worry about them walking away.

Darol Wester said

A motion light could do wonders too if it was set in the right spot. Though...I do like the fish hook set up but use some 50 lb. line and tie it to an empty metal garbage can.

........... and rig up a way to light off a few M-80s in the process via some kind of trip wire, then follow the trail of crapola exiting his pant leg right to this scumbags house.

We feel he's someone relatively near by. This is a gravel dead end road.

Darol Wester · January 16, 2008, 08:05 AM

I always liked the one when a guy was siphoning out of what he thought was a fuel tank on an RV. The people called the cops and when they arrived, the guy was still there vomiting outside the RV. The people decided not to press charges after finding out that by mistake, he was actually siphoning out of the sewage tank

and in the process had swallowed some. They figured he'd suffered enough.

Maybe they could set something up along those lines Low. How could sugar be worked into to the equation.

Naaa, that's gettin mean.