Help, I have some creepy neighbors at my new place. They have surveillance cameras aimed in my freaking window. SO I put up a temporary boat wall storage area, then they move their camera, then I move the boats, then they move the camera.
This went on for a while until I confronted them. BTW the camera is not so cleverly hidden in a plastic owl that the head moves and pans and follows me as I work in the yard. So after our Nice neighborly chat, the owl gets moved and a new copper frog looking thing shows up with a freakin camera in it. That also pans.

I noticed every time I rearrange my boat wall, the neighbors move the cameras. I'm gonna build a privacy fence, but I can't make it over 7 feet tall. But I can lean boats up against my fence, and lots of boats are taller than that.

Here's where the plea for help is. Does anybody have some old, ugly tall, broken, historical or decent shape boats laying around that to you would bee interested in donating to the annoy my neighbors who don't seem to like boaters cause

I'm most interested in free to cheap, but intriguing craft I would consider buying or trading for my artwork. The metal salmon pic in the gallery is a good example one of my most requested commissions. A savage scorpion complete with stainless end caps would be worthy of a custom piece.

Thanks for reading this kinda long post. and thanks for any possible contributions to a privacy wall/ kayak museum/, graveyard/installation

Buy a laser and fix the beam on the camera lens. Everyone knows lasers beat cameras. Otherwise I would just shoot the lens with a bb gun, I do get in trouble a lot BTW, maybe don't follow my advice

Thanks for the sage advice. The riff raff are in their 80s and friends with the HOA president. So I think I'm gonna stick with the tall bright pieces of plastic, boathenge theme for now. Definitely take you up on a Corsica S, that's the first boat I ever paddled.

Any boats, could/would be on loan. Think of it as boat storage, your tired of your other saying to get that Response/transition etc out of the guest bedroom. Who knows you may even see your trusty old steed high up on the ridge as you ply the local waterways.

I like the laser idea!

Try one of those (or five) freeway halogens aimed at the camera. Put it on a portable stand so you can "adjust" accordingly.

Also:

-If nothing else works and you feel like playing tit-for-tat, you can get a four pack of fake-but-realistic-looking surveillance cameras for $30 on amazon.

Mount up a four-pack and see how they like it when they're the ones on candid camera.
http://www.amazon.com/Masione-Security-Illuminating-Blinking-Surveillance/dp/B013W7AHSM/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442858776&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=fake+surveilance+cameraas


Edited by JayB - 21 Sep 2015 at 11:08am

This is a crappy thing to have to deal with. I'm not an expert but I think WA state has very weak laws protecting people from this kind of thing. I believe the standard is still that the person complaining has to prove that the person taking the video did so for the purpose of sexual gratification, which is obviously lame. (Not to mention, an upskirting guy claimed he wasn't taking the video for that purpose. Not sure how that one turned out.) But I agree that if you take it to the HOA people might feel differently about the prospect of themselves or their children being videotaped in their own backyards by their neighbors.  Also, regardless of whether you are renting or you own the property this is arguably a 'property devaluation' issue that most HOAs have restrictions against.  Good luck.

Documentation of the transgression would also be helpful when you bring this up at a HOA meeting.

I like to walk around naked and do naked yoga ,If I'm being recorded.