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Neighbors

My neighbors and I are in a row. After one too many of their late-night parties I lost patience. The first four or five parties they had I asked nice if they'd turn their music down so I could sleep, then they went ahead and started having sex on the hood of my car (scratching it up).

The other night's 2am game of beer pong complete with screaming obscenities every few minutes did me in. I went over, told them in no uncertain terms to shut the hell up, went back inside. They got louder, so I called the cops. Yesterday they threatened physical bodily damage to me for ruining their fun. In an effort at paranoia, I've set up a motion detector/webcam in my window. The software is called motion and best of all there is a debian package (you will probably want the debian package ucbmpeg as well, so you can have it clean up the jpegs and leave mpeg movies for you).

Let them fuck with my car now!

It should at least provide a deterrent/evidence if they key my car, break windows, or decide to accost me in front of my apartment.

Oddly, I'm categorizing this entry under privacy. I suppose that this might fall under invasion of privacy, but I set up a cron job to delete all the photos and mpegs after they are one week old. That way, if I don't see anything wrong with windows or cars, I won't see anything at all.