Cheap camera for spying on my neighbours?

[DaveShoelace]

Like the clickbait title?

So whenever I park my car on a certain part of my street which doesn't have any houses near it, overnight somebody flips my wing mirror inwards. No harm done as it just flip backs, but just seems a bit petty. As said, the part of my road where I park there is literally no houses for four car lengths, it's a weird little layby kinda thing and parking is allowed.

Anyhoo, recently whoever it is has now been scooping up autumn leaves and putting them in a heap on my windscreen (no trees nearby so deffo done on purpose). Again, no harm, just a weird passive aggressive thing to do.

A few months back we got a nail in our tyre twice in the space of four weeks.

So no idea why but it seems one of my neighbours has it in for me in a very small way. I was thinking of putting a camera in my car, leaving it running overnight, and seeing if we can find out who is doing it. For LOLs more than anything.

Anyone have any suggestions on cheap cameras that work in the dark, run for 10 hours and can be hidden? Would one of those dashboard cameras for insurance claims work when the car is parked?

Also if anyone has any suggestions for revenge on a similarly petty scale, I'm all ears.

[exstream]

Hide in car
Jump out
Kill

[moustache]

Amazon do shit ones for £6-20 and decent ones for £60+ designed for filming or taking stills of night time wildlife. Once we know who dunnit then the petty revenge could get very entertaining! Maybe try urinating in his windscreen washer fluid bottle for starters.

[Woodsey]

Get a cat and train it to shit in their garden...

[bobAlike]

Amazon do shit ones for £6-20 and decent ones for £60+ designed for filming or taking stills of night time wildlife. Once we know who dunnit then the petty revenge could get very entertaining! Maybe try urinating in his windscreen washer fluid bottle for starters.

A few years ago a friend of the family drove his brand new company car through the monkey enclosure at the safari park where one of the monkeys urinated in the air vents on the bonnet. They could never get the smell out of the car and had to send it back to the leasing company.

[DungBeetle]

Hide in car
Jump out
Kill

Quick kill as well please.  Like when a lion catches the bobbins deer at the back of the herd.

[DaveShoelace]

If it's the bloke I think it is, I'm pretty certain he could deck me with one arm behind his back, so any revenge will be even more passive aggressive than what he is doing to me.

[Junior Senior]

I have a similar issue that i have reported to the police. Its where i park for work where the residents clearly think they own the public road space outside their houses and get annoyed at the cars that park outside their houses. Last week both wing morrors on my car were damaged badly which wasnt an accident. Would be interested in knowing how to catch the culprit in the act.

[DaveShoelace]

I have a similar issue that i have reported to the police. Its where i park for work where the residents clearly think they own the public road space outside their houses and get annoyed at the cars that park outside their houses. Last week both wing morrors on my car were damaged badly which wasnt an accident. Would be interested in knowing how to catch the culprit in the act.

It's weird how attached people are to their spaces, I'm pretty certain whoever is doing it has lived on this road for years and decided that it is their space despite being a public space. One of my neighbours on the other side of the road has threatened women and racially abused a mate of mine for parking in 'his' space, which is just a public space.

[Junior Senior]

I have a similar issue that i have reported to the police. Its where i park for work where the residents clearly think they own the public road space outside their houses and get annoyed at the cars that park outside their houses. Last week both wing morrors on my car were damaged badly which wasnt an accident. Would be interested in knowing how to catch the culprit in the act.

It's weird how attached people are to their spaces, I'm pretty certain whoever is doing it has lived on this road for years and decided that it is their space despite being a public space. One of my neighbours on the other side of the road has threatened women and racially abused a mate of mine for parking in 'his' space, which is just a public space.

In one way i get it but would never go so far as to abuse someone or damage property. If you buy a house on a public road then you have to accept it goes with the territory. Unacceptable behaviour

[McGlashan]

For 10 hours you'll need a dash/action cam + an external power supply + XL memory card. Somebody must make a kit to run off your car battery with a fail safe to stop it draining flat.What's your street lighting like? Picture quality will be street light dependent and action cams suffer in low light. Try borrowing a go-pro and doing a minute long trial run to see what results you'll achieve.

As others have mentioned people own their house not the parking space on the road outside their house (and we're assuming it's the most likely root of such petulance). My parents once broke the unwritten rule by moving their car over so workmen could get in about and the lady next door flipped a switch. She's literally not been the same since and they don't talk anymore, if they did it'd only be cus she'd invented something to complain about.

[tikay]

I have a similar issue that i have reported to the police. Its where i park for work where the residents clearly think they own the public road space outside their houses and get annoyed at the cars that park outside their houses. Last week both wing morrors on my car were damaged badly which wasnt an accident. Would be interested in knowing how to catch the culprit in the act.

It's weird how attached people are to their spaces, I'm pretty certain whoever is doing it has lived on this road for years and decided that it is their space despite being a public space. One of my neighbours on the other side of the road has threatened women and racially abused a mate of mine for parking in 'his' space, which is just a public space.

This is not as simple as you think, Barry.

This is a deep rooted psychological thing, & you can try to fight back all you want but you wont solve it, ever, & you are gonna get yourself dragged into a squabble which is completely insoluble. 

It's a bit like this thing where we stand at opposite corners of a lift & stare at the floor, try to get a seat in a train or 'plane with nobody next to us, or even park outside our own house rather than 1 space along, outside next door's house as someone is in "our" space.

You cannot win this, no matter what you do.

I'd avoid getting dragged down to his level, I really would - choose a better battle imo.   

Hope it sorts itself out, but eye for an eye is not the answer, it'll just escalate, & eventually, one or both of you will end up in Court.

[Tal]

I have a similar issue that i have reported to the police. Its where i park for work where the residents clearly think they own the public road space outside their houses and get annoyed at the cars that park outside their houses. Last week both wing morrors on my car were damaged badly which wasnt an accident. Would be interested in knowing how to catch the culprit in the act.

It's weird how attached people are to their spaces, I'm pretty certain whoever is doing it has lived on this road for years and decided that it is their space despite being a public space. One of my neighbours on the other side of the road has threatened women and racially abused a mate of mine for parking in 'his' space, which is just a public space.

This is not as simple as you think, Barry.

This is a deep rooted psychological thing, & you can try to fight back all you want but you wont solve it, ever, & you are gonna get yourself dragged into a squabble which is completely insoluble. 

It's a bit like this thing where we stand at opposite corners of a lift & stare at the floor, try to get a seat in a train or 'plane with nobody next to us, or even park outside our own house rather than 1 space along, outside next door's house as someone is in "our" space.

You cannot win this, no matter what you do.

I'd avoid getting dragged down to his level, I really would - choose a better battle imo.   

Hope it sorts itself out, but eye for an eye is not the answer, it'll just escalate, & eventually, one or both of you will end up in Court.

This. Obviously this.

How about a note hanging from your wing mirror that says "I know I've upset you but I don't know how. Please tell me what this is about so I can put it right. Dave Shoelace, Number 5"?

They'll either carry on as they were - in which case you're no worse off.

Or they will stop - good.

Or they might write a note back - in which case you can dust the note for fingerprints at least it's the start of some dialogue.

[tikay]

^^^^

A much better way forward.

All of us, everywhere & in everything, have an imaginary circle around our (so-called) "personal space". In a lift, a bus, an aircraft, a bus queue, restaurant, house, garden, even when we speak face to face, if the other guy stands too close to us, James Browning style, we get uncomfy & back off.   

It's human nature & psychology, & trying to fight it tit for tat cannot ever resolve that.

Find an accommodation that works for you both, but don't go head to head, it won't work. Ever.

People - ordinary, law abiding, God fearing, "I don't want trouble" people have their entire lives ruined by this stuff, it goes on for years, it comes to dominate their lives, often ends up in Court, even prison, or, on rare occasions, physical harm or even death.

google "neighbour disputes", there are zillions of them, most of them relate to this mythical "personal space" thing. 

I would imagine it is worse in Yorkshire, where everyone is a bit odd to start with.

[DaveShoelace]

Yeah ya'll is right. As it happens I bumped into my mate (the racially abused fella from earlier in this thread) and he is currently going through a very similar thing (slim chance being from the same person). I gave him my advice of A) wait it out, they're old and B) always greet them with a big friendly smile, it will piss them off no end.

So I guess I'll have to take my own advice, best revenge is living well.

Failing that I can take a big dump on their doorstep, but will try living well first.