Cartoon security
Keeping an eye on your property? There are centuries of prior art. Consider a tower, in the corner of the castle keep. We’ve moved ahead, some. Want some good hints? Watch that “Home Alone” movie. Or some of the Mission Impossible catalog. Want something more modern? YouTube, naturally.
I’m not looking for better home security, but I like to know what others are doing. In my case, I have a crow that does that alarm call, every time I open the front door. And a dog that lets go (fart and bark conflated) when vehicles come into the driverway. I know, our car. I still reward his efferts.
Some others take this much more seriously. We have the usual signs warning of surveillance, over at one of the neighbours. And down in the States, one man has been doing the passice aggressive thing with the house next door. They put up a camera (pointing at his house), so he put a permanent laser, aimed at the offending iris. They installed a microphone, so he found an old radio and tuned in something soothing (sic) on the AM band. And the radio was placed under a handy tarp, out of view of the camera. Actually, I may have seen a precursor to this, on a Saturday morning cartoon. No mantraps or similar along the perimeter, but there’s a foeseeable future.
I didn’t cut down any of my trees, given the natural screen sideeffect. Besides, I don’t think my next door mate cares. After seven years of not doing face-to-face, I am probably not on his radar. Or maybe he has super tecnnology.
