I don't believe it... Moving a welcome mat when the guy has a camera doorbell? C'mon...

Even the trash cans. Just...put the trash cans in actual view of the camera? How would you buy a camera just to watch your trash cans and then not actually watch the trash cans with it?

You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

Impossible!

You guys are no fun

No, you're overthinking it. Say the cans are on the opposite side of the house from where op is. If he crosses in view of the front door, he'll (op) be spotted. So he goes through the backyard instead for access to the cans.

He's (op neighbor) not buying a camera and pointing it straight at the cans from the property fence or something.

Blind spot so big the cans are there too which defeats the purpose of the camera. Got it.

Doesn’t explain moving the welcome mat undetected though

Easy solution, jam the wifi signal while moving the mat. Added benefit of making them more concerned that the house is haunted. If the houses are close enough (likely, hoa so suburbs) you could just hook it to a basic wall-wart timer that actives at 3 and deactives at 3:05, and have it + jammer plugged in at the closest outlet to neighbors front door. Ring doesn't have a wired ethernet version to fix this vulnerability.

...why are you looking at me like that?

Read my other comment :p

Shit Americans will do instead of just abolishing HOAs.

I'd rather live in a cardboard box behind a wal-mart than in an HOA.

I wouldn't even notice if the bins moved 6"

They've creeped into Canada. I always call people who voluntarily join an HOA authoritarian morons.

It's the HOA Karens that run politics, so you do the math on how well that'd work out.

I have a Google doorbell and it's night vision is terrible. I've taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it's the darkest and the doorbell didn't register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.

This would be me if I ever moved to the suburbs in an HOA, which I would never do on purpose.

I am enraged by proxy at the very existence of HOAs even though I have never been part of one or indeed interacted with an HOA or even (knowingly) a member of one. I just hate them for existing.

The term Gaslighting gets thrown around a lot, but if this story were actually real it would be the perfect modern day example of it.

it looks like a ghost

Even better

Not HOA but similar. I was living in a different city during covid. The city closed the outdoor parks in the poor and working class neighborhoods, the rich folk parks remained open.

They started to wrap the swings at the park around the top bar. I'd unwrap them each day and that went on for about two weeks. Then they went to zip tying the swings together so they couldn't be used. So I would cut the zip ties each day. This went on for another few weeks. Then they brought a sign post and a sign saying the park was closed and using the swings was prohibited. I dug the sign post out and threw it in the woods. Then they chained the swings together with a pad lock so I went to harbor freight and bought very heavy duty bolt cutters and lopped the chain off. That daily chain lopping lasted a week or two then they just took the swings away. I debated about buying swings and attaching them but figured the gambit went on as long as it should have and called it. I had fun.

Meanwhile the whole time the kids in the rich neighborhoods could swing to their daily content.

Someone who reports people's trash cans to the HOA so they can be fined for it probably aren't someone who understands camera angles.

Exactly, signal jam the cheap way. 👍 Most people don’t realize you can set this up in the breaker box lol. But I’m a stinker.

There's a reason I bought a 14 acre homestead for $225k four years ago than anything in an HOA.

I'd rather live in the middle of no where and shovel snow, carry firewood downstairs, feed chickens and pigs and break up frozen waters and dig out doors, deal with 6ft drifts blowing around my house all winter, than ever share space with fucking Gary.

I love it. Perhaps it would have been more effective to just do whatever they did to the swings at the other parks? Either way it's good stuff

My park was close to my house and it was closed by ordinance, the other rich ones were not. There is no difference in the parks at all other than the property values in the neighborhoods in which they sat. I wasn't going to go to city hall and complain since the mayor and council people were all from the rich neighborhoods. Rule of law is downwards in our class based society.

Are you saying sabotage the rich kids swings? Thats awful. Like something done shit to your park so you’ll pay it forward to other innocent kids. Terrible behaviour. You should be mad at the people doing it and take it out on them or the rule makers.

You have no idea how many of those things are mounted such that you can walk up from the side unseen.

Source - my neighbor's an idiot

Even the dumbest person is going to check the feed bro, come on.

What other comment?

I have had some shitty HOAs and I now live in a home with no HOA for a reason. Fuck those overbearing shitheads.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22436182

Imagine being so fucking basic you care about trash cans being visible from the street.

Its not about the trash cans, its about making sure your neighbours know YOU are calling the shots. If it wasnt the trashcan it would have been the grass a half-inch too high, or the paint on the door chipped slightly, or gravel leaving the premises, or dirty windows.

Yeah, good idea. Commit a felony offense to cover the tracks of your late night trashcan shenanigan...

They can check the feed all they want. If the angles don't show anything it doesn't matter.

I mean if the city is gonna actively punish poor kids then fuck them rich ones, they should suffer just the same. Teach them some humility instead of the upper class bubble they're in.

It's only bad if you get caught

🌌 🧠

Ya no way this is real. My ring doorbell detects the damn trees when the wind blows too hard. Not a chance he avoids the camera.

The correct response is to find out who is responsible for the chaining/closing and start chaining/closing their stuff. Randomly messing with another park doesn't hurt anyone and just means another park is closed.

Have you tried turning the porch light on?

Unless he was behind it, like the post implies.

There are radio nerds out there who are extremely interested in RF noise and will absolutely triangulate and report a signal jammer.

Well now we have to move the trash cans of two houses I guess

• grass too tall

• didn't respect mah athoriteh

This should be green text.

Good effort! Hopefully some of the local kids got to enjoy the swings after your heroics each day, & that the council/city eventually put them back after restrictions loosened again.

The difference in the swings in the other parks were that they were surrounded by rich people

HOA are such a crazy concept. There is no such thing in Europe.

Of course there are home owners associations in Europe. They're just not crazy.