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#1 Apr 11 2009 at 3:30 AM Rating: Decent
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/webcam.home.invasion/index.html?eref=rss_us

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Jeanne Thomas was sitting at her desk at work when she decided to check the security camera that she installed in her home. The Thomas home had been burglarized before, so she installed a monitoring device where she can watch a live video feed of the camera in her home.

When Thomas decided to pull up the feed of her house Wednesday morning, she couldn't believe what she saw. There was someone inside her home, someone she didn't know. Thomas picked up the phone and called 911.

"I'm watching my home on live monitor, and there is a black man in my house, and he is robbing it," she told the dispatcher. The woman on the other end of the call asked Thomas where she was, and Thomas replied, "I'm in Fort Lauderdale, at my work."


As I was listening to this on the radio all I could do is laugh at these geniuses
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#2 Apr 11 2009 at 3:56 AM Rating: Decent
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That sounds like a great idea.
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#3 Apr 11 2009 at 4:27 AM Rating: Decent
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As I was listening to this on the radio all I could do is laugh at these geniuses

To be fair, it's not like it was really all that likely that they'd hit one of the houses with a video surveillance setup, at the exact time that the owner happened to be watching it.
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#4 Apr 11 2009 at 6:23 AM Rating: Good
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Majivo wrote:
The SimpleMajority of Doom wrote:
As I was listening to this on the radio all I could do is laugh at these geniuses

To be fair, it's not like it was really all that likely that they'd hit one of the houses with a video surveillance setup, at the exact time that the owner happened to be watching it.
It would be really easy to set it up with a movement detection system that would alert you. Send an email, ping your server and send you a growl.
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It would be really easy to set it up with a movement detection system that would alert you. Send an email, ping your server and send you a growl.


The cat would set it off all the time.
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If you put it a few feet off the ground it's unlikely. Or if you have a computer engineering or computer science degree you could write software to analyze the video and differentiate between a cat sized moving object and a bigger one. It's actually a lot of fun. Not very realistic I suppose.
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It would be really easy to set it up with a movement detection system that would alert you. Send an email, ping your server and send you a growl.


The cat would set it off all the time.


You mean like those cheap motion sensor flood lights that you can adjust to not pick up pets and animals? Yeah, I'm sure motion sensor cameras' technology isn't that advanced yet. Smiley: rolleyes
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Xsarus wrote:
It would be really easy to set it up with a movement detection system that would alert you. Send an email, ping your server and send you a growl.


The cat would set it off all the time.


We've got motion alarms in the truck bays at work, and they are adjusted to ignore small animals.

The only thing that sets them off besides people are the occasional stray deer, maybe dog or on rare occasion a large raccoon or opossum

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#9 Apr 11 2009 at 12:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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better than watching it from inside your appartment as it occurs. Trust me on this one.
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Xsarus wrote:
If you put it a few feet off the ground it's unlikely. Or if you have a computer engineering or computer science degree you could write software to analyze the video and differentiate between a cat sized moving object and a bigger one. It's actually a lot of fun. Not very realistic I suppose.


Most modern motion detection devices / software offer an option to detect only a certain fill factor. That is, N% of pixels must change from frame to frame over X frames to trigger the detection.
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Wouldn't this be a burglary in progress? Isn't a home invasion a burglary on an occupied home? Or has it been adjusted to encompass everything to make it just that much more dramatic?
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Isn't a home invasion a burglary on an occupied home?


That's what I always thought a home invasion was... but I guess you can't fault CNN for jazzing it up a little.

I like how the burglar was black.
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I like how the burglar was black.


Would you rather them lie and say it was a white upper class CEO who did it?

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Would you rather them lie and say it was a white upper class CEO who did it?


That'd just be silly. The big CEOs don't rob people home by home. They just use the government to rob everyone at once.
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Would you rather them lie and say it was a white upper class CEO who did it?


That'd just be silly. The big CEOs don't rob people home by home. They just use the government to rob everyone at once.


That's cause they're smarter Smiley: schooled
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TirithRR wrote:
Iamadam the Shady wrote:
I like how the burglar was black.


Would you rather them lie and say it was a white upper class CEO who did it?


Oh, so close.
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Shady,

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I like how the burglar was black.


Obviously the homeowner is racist.

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hangtennow wrote:
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I like how the burglar was black.


Obviously the homeowner is racist.



Naw, the house was racist for getting robbed by a black guy.
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Kelvyquayo wrote:
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Shady,

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I like how the burglar was black.


Obviously the homeowner is racist.



Naw, the house was racist for getting robbed by a black guy.
It was probably asking for it.
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AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
Kelvyquayo wrote:
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Shady,

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I like how the burglar was black.


Obviously the homeowner is racist.



Naw, the house was racist for getting robbed by a black guy.
It was probably asking for it.


That's what happens when you don't paint your house the right colour for the neighborhood.
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