Possible Trump Indictment

[Sparko]

It sounds like you are expecting trouble.

I got broke into once and since then have realized it is better to expect trouble and not get it than it is to not expect trouble and get it. Luckily I wasn't home the last time I was burglarized, but the feeling you get from having your home and privacy invaded doesn't go away.

[Ronson]

As the old Arab proverb tells us, "Trust in God but tie up your camel."

I try to weigh the investment and risk in such things. My bro lives in L.A. County so he has ring cameras and guns in the house. Where I live, they just don't seem practical.

[rogue06]

It sounds like you are expecting trouble.

As the old Arab proverb tells us, "Trust in God but tie up your camel."

[Ronson]

I have Blink cameras throughout the house, and outside. I can see almost anything that happens in or around the house, and it records the video in case I need it. I keep the outside cameras armed all the time, but the indoor cameras are only armed from midnight till 6AM, when I am sleeping, or when I leave the house. And the doors and living room are covered by an ADT security system/motion sensor, that will, as I said before, eventually call the police if there is a break-in. The blink cameras are just for me and not connected to the alarm system, and record locally to my computer. ADT has cameras available but I just don't trust somebody sitting in a room somewhere else being able to see and record me whenever they want.

It sounds like you are expecting trouble.

[eider]

The blink cameras have their own wireless hub that records to an SD card and I have the hub hidden so if they get my computer I will still have the SD card with the video. They also have a cloud service you can subscribe to to save your videos to the cloud, but I am too cheap and paranoid for that.

However would want to stuff their personal life and messages in to 'the cloud'? You ain't cheap, nor paranoid...... just endowed with common sense.

[eider]

I have Blink cameras throughout the house, and outside. I can see almost anything that happens in or around the house, and it records the video in case I need it. I keep the outside cameras armed all the time, but the indoor cameras are only armed from midnight till 6AM, when I am sleeping, or when I leave the house. And the doors and living room are covered by an ADT security system/motion sensor, that will, as I said before, eventually call the police if there is a break-in. The blink cameras are just for me and not connected to the alarm system, and record locally to my computer. ADT has cameras available but I just don't trust somebody sitting in a room somewhere else being able to see and record me whenever they want.

You really do look to be switched on with modern security apps. My mate has a similar system because he is in to new technology rather than protecting any very high risk. Your post suggests that you live alone...yes-no?

[eider]

My mother and I never did get along. As I said, it was something I just felt was owed.

That gives me some small insight.......
In about 1995 my Mother's home had deteriorated very badly and I contacted the council in connection with it's policy (back then) to renovate old people's homes for free...all she had to do was live in that property for three years for the cost to be cleared. The council offered her free roof, damp treatments, replastering, two new floors and a new kitchen, but when they called to explain everything she refused to sign anything. There was nothing that they or I could do. So I suggested that she sell the big old place, buy a tiny little place in the same road as us and put a huge remaining lump of cash in the bank to keep her going. This was a great idea because she'd been chucked out of all the Whitstable pubs and thus she would have all the Herne Bay Pubs to get through and with affordable taxi rides home, etc. This she did, but she mismanaged her funds and grew very old and infirm.....eventually she let me manage all her affairs with health, social and council officials. Trying to help my elderly mother was like trying to help an enemy...... many years later she accused me of causing her to lose her big old home, and when I explained that I had tried everything possible to get her to sign the forms that would have her house restored free of charge, she answered with 'Well I didn't trust them!' She never allowed me to get her a television or improve her home situation. If my wife went round to cook or clean she was so insulted that she would not could not go there. My daughter couldn't go there either, would be called shocking names etc. In the end her place was such a mess that I called in a friend's cleaning company to carry out a one day mass cleaning project and over ten cleaners attended, but she refused to have a day out with me while that happened. She died in 2003.......... but early experiences in WWII and a sad marriage had smashed her up inside. I feel quite sad about her, nobody ever visited her apart from self and various social services folks. I wish I could have been more useful to her, more helpful, but she wouldn't let people help.

Prime Minister Thatcher got the country's mental hospitals closed down in the 80s/early 90's and introduced 'Care in the Community' for mentally disabled folks. I don't think that fitted so many individual cases.

[Sparko]

What if a thief steals your computer?

The blink cameras have their own wireless hub that records to an SD card and I have the hub hidden so if they get my computer I will still have the SD card with the video. They also have a cloud service you can subscribe to to save your videos to the cloud, but I am too cheap and paranoid for that.

[rogue06]

I have Blink cameras throughout the house, and outside. I can see almost anything that happens in or around the house, and it records the video in case I need it. I keep the outside cameras armed all the time, but the indoor cameras are only armed from midnight till 6AM, when I am sleeping, or when I leave the house. And the doors and living room are covered by an ADT security system/motion sensor, that will, as I said before, eventually call the police if there is a break-in. The blink cameras are just for me and not connected to the alarm system, and record locally to my computer. ADT has cameras available but I just don't trust somebody sitting in a room somewhere else being able to see and record me whenever they want.

What if a thief steals your computer?

[Sparko]

Yep! Great idea..... But we have a much more complex system....obviously........ the top panel to our Porch door is doubled glazed; my wife spray painted the glass to match the colour of the door, and once dry I scratched a 1" x 1.5" peephole out of the centre.

A mate is in to such gear as yours, and (probably like you) he can view all the rooms. IT gear is leaving me far behind and this was one of my reasons for retiring from the security world 13 yrs ago, the law and digital systems had already moved beyond 'the old ways'.

I have Blink cameras throughout the house, and outside. I can see almost anything that happens in or around the house, and it records the video in case I need it. I keep the outside cameras armed all the time, but the indoor cameras are only armed from midnight till 6AM, when I am sleeping, or when I leave the house. And the doors and living room are covered by an ADT security system/motion sensor, that will, as I said before, eventually call the police if there is a break-in. The blink cameras are just for me and not connected to the alarm system, and record locally to my computer. ADT has cameras available but I just don't trust somebody sitting in a room somewhere else being able to see and record me whenever they want.

[rogue06]

Well, full praise to you whether you correct me or not, rogue. That is exactly what both my friends did, they extended full home-care to their parents until the end. In each case they didn't house a parent like you did but lived on with them in the family home. Like my friends you will have been very close.

My mother and I never did get along. As I said, it was something I just felt was owed.

[eider]

I had my own place soon after turning 18 and the only time I lived with my parents after that was when I moved my mother in with me, where I provided in home hospice for her when her cancer spread after getting chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Everyone kept praising me for being such a good son. I would correct them. I wasn't so much being a good son as paying her back for being such a wretched hand full to raise. I considered it a debt that needed to be paid.

Well, full praise to you whether you correct me or not, rogue. That is exactly what both my friends did, they extended full home-care to their parents until the end. In each case they didn't house a parent like you did but lived on with them in the family home. Like my friends you will have been very close.

[eider]

I have a Ring doorbell camera. I can answer it on my phone or on my Echo Show (has a display)

Yep! Great idea..... But we have a much more complex system....obviously........ the top panel to our Porch door is doubled glazed; my wife spray painted the glass to match the colour of the door, and once dry I scratched a 1" x 1.5" peephole out of the centre.

A mate is in to such gear as yours, and (probably like you) he can view all the rooms. IT gear is leaving me far behind and this was one of my reasons for retiring from the security world 13 yrs ago, the law and digital systems had already moved beyond 'the old ways'.

[Mountain Man]

Where I grew up outside of D.C. people never bothered to lock the door at night or when they took a trip to the store or a restaurant. Shortly before I moved (early 70s) I remember my parents and neighbors complaining about how that changed after a string of burglaries in the area.

My grandparents who lived in a small Colorado town used to leave their doors unlocked even when they went on vacation.

Then there was the big city hardware store I worked at in high school. The owner was explaining to me that when they first opened the shop in the 1940s, they used to be able to keep goods on display outside without an issue. Then as times changed, they found they had to put a chain and lock on the goods to keep them from walking. Then, later, they had to remove their outdoor display entirely and bring the stuff inside. Then, while I was working there, some fellow strolled into the store while we were especially busy, grabbed a hand truck off a counter, and ran out the door with it. So then we ended up having to put locks on stuff even inside the store. That's when the owner lamented to me about "how it used to be". It was an interesting picture of how society has changed.

[rogue06]

And where my parents lived in the back country, they didn't even lock their doors. So what? You have to take into account the risks of where you live. I live in a small town outside of a large city where there is a lot more crime than where my parents lived. Also everyone where my parents lived had guns. I mean everyone. It was normal. People liked to hunt and also be able to protect their land. They might not lock their doors, but nobody would be stupid enough to break into anyone's home around there anyway. If the owners didn't shoot them, a neighbor would.

Where I grew up outside of D.C. people never bothered to lock the door at night or when they took a trip to the store or a restaurant. Shortly before I moved (early 70s) I remember my parents and neighbors complaining about how that changed after a string of burglaries in the area.