During the night, the laptop sits on my night table to wake me and notify me if some raccoon wants to have a dinner from my koi pond. The last big party they had, before installing the cams, made disappear all 29 fish that were in the pond.
Well, two days ago I decided to clean the hard drive and remove all the meaningless recordings; sometimes our cats or just the wind agitating the fig tree leaves triggers the recording. While previewing the videos to delete some, I found one video that I hadn't seen before and for some reason hadn't heard when the alarm started (possibly at that moment I hadn't been in the room).
But, if I had heard the alarm that night and gone out to scare the raccoons away with the little 2400kt pellet air gun (which in the dark may look like a real gun), I'd probably be dead by now.
The video shows two police officers with guns in their hands going around my backyard. I learned yesterday that they had been looking for someone who'd jumped the fence two houses from mine at approximately 11:00pm. The video was recorded at 1:55am
I love the job they do to protect our community, but for a cold search like this (about three hours after the bad guy jumped the neighbor fence) I think that they should knock at the door before getting in my backyard with guns in their hands.
Sometimes during the night I just go out to have a smoke. You may say that smoke can kill you, but this case would have made my wife a rich widow.
Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JvS3m0b_6g#
