Mission Impossible

[Rachel M]

Hey all its been a while since I've posted. Like many of you, I'm not out to any of my neighbors so I will have to do the double and triple check out the front windows to make sure the coast is clear to get out to the car. Recently my neighbors across the street and directly next door have installed security cameras. I spoke to one of them about his system and camera range. He explained any motion detection will not only start the recoding process but will also send a text to his phone it was detected. This features allows him to view live from his phone. So now I feel like I'm in an episode of mission impossible trying to evade detection to avoid outing myself. I suppose some of you just say screw it, who cares who's watching which your probably right. I guess I'm trying to avoid that awkward conversation with my neighbors. How do some of you deal with some of these camera issues?
Thank,
Rachel

[Happygirl!]

In true mission impossible fashion, maybe you need to do plan a night mission, dressed in all black (pant suit, or long black dress with black hose), and take over, or disable those cameras :)

[docrobbysherry]

I live with several very close neighbors along our tiny street before I hit the major road. When I drive out dressed during daylite hours, (Summer time), I wear a men's jacket over my outfit and sunglasses and a cap to hide my makeup. I put my wig on in my car at my destination.:daydreaming:

At nite, no one can see inside my car well enuff to tell it's me.

[Jaylyn]

I don't think there's many places left that cameras are not at. I love being out in the country and that's one of the reasons why. When one thinks about it just about any store now has cameras. I was at Sallies last night with my wife and not a SA in sight I started looking at the false eye lashes up front near the front door. There's four rows from front to the back as soon as I picked up two pair of eyelashes I look and two girls came three rows over from the back door and up my row one asked me if they could help me with the lashes. I suspected then they had saw me looking also at the lipsticks and eye liner thing also. Cameras are something we just have to deal with today.

[Kelly DeWinter]

Rachel;

Truly in the age we live in it's guaranteed that you cannot go 24 hours without being recorded a dozen times in some fashion. The current tech in cameras are smaller,high quality resolution,zoom and lower price.

Think about the high quality cameras that are in the following areas:
. Most intersections and stop lights
. School crossings
. Speed Cameras
. All emergency response vehicles
. ATM Machines
. Most businesses doors
. Elevators
. 27% of homes have outdoor security cameras in the US
. Personal Vehicles

Personally I accept that reality that if i'm going to leave my house in any fashion i'll be recorded.

[Majella St Gerard]

I don't deal with it, cause I don't care what my neighbors think or anyone else. Just be yourself.

[KymG]

Agree with Majella, in my case whilst im technically not out to my neighbours, i accept that at some point someone would have seen me begin or return from a night time drive.
Ive also been outside once or twice in the daytime, its now got to the stage where i really dont care.
If they see me, they see me, its their problem rather than mine.

[Teresa]

Rachel,
Maybe if you get your own you might just catch another CDing neighbour, don't forget you not the only one blessed with it ! I've arrived at that point when I will politely say screw it , as I will be walking the dog past most of them and then off to the shops , I'll just give any cameras a wave as I go by to keep them all happy , they'll only say , " Did you see that !" once and then it's on to something else .

[ToniG]

The thot of a Barbara Bain disguise came to mind. :) Unless you have an alternate way out, prob getting videoed. For my location--I walk across "rough terrain" to exit out the rear of my complex to avoid neighbors open blinds. IF I was still driving--there was No Way to get to the car w/o being seen. The neighbor lady that saw me nr the car with my Ladies slacks and Italian Shoemaker Sandals never said anything b4 she moved away. We are getting videoed anywhere we go. Toni G..

[Brynna M]

Most of the cameras will be on some sort of Bluetooth or WiFi. Pull the magnetron out of a microwave and pipe it through anantenna as your walking out. The cameras should be unable to transmit anything. (You did say it was mission impossible. ;) and it should work in physics sense ). I’ve actually got no useful advice but I hope you don’t end up in any awkwa d conversations.

[Rhonda Jean]

I've got some of those. You can set the motion zone so that it only picks up what's in the important areas. You wouldn't want one that sent an alert every time a car drove down the road. I think you're probably safe.

[Leslie Langford]

Just do what the bank robbers do when it comes to security cams - approach them with a can of spray paint in stealth mode and out of their field of view, and then give their lenses a good shot of that paint to effectively blind them. Nod gravely and sympathetically the next day when your neighbors complain vociferously about those $%&#@ punks who are vandalizing their property. ;) :eek: :heehee: :devil:

[Randi49]

I am a security system Guru and have a couple at the house. I find it amusing that he gets a text everytime there is motion. Can you do that? yes. Does anyone use that? I suppose if they are guarding Ft. Knox or are just enthralled with their new system. That thing will record every dog, car, mailman, and anything else that moves. Usually you select squares of interest to detect in. Generally that is on your property. Usually it records continuously in slow mo and speeds up for "events". Watching it on your phone would drive you nuts and eat your data to nothing. Even reviewing it is tedious. Usually you review in like 16 to 1. Every hour takes 4 minutes review. You have to sit there eyes glued to the screen for 32 minutes to check an 8 hour period. Using motion detection takes up massive amounts of your storage. In practice you rapidly cut down on event recording because you go from storing a month of video backup to only a few days. I like to observe where the cameras are pointed. They seldom move them.
The question is will he out you. Probably. Some day he is going to be looking for something and there you are in fem. I don't know how you avoid it. I think I would be inclined to say, look I have some unusual and legal hobbies. You will probably capture them on video. I am glad you are trying to keep your home and the neighborhood safe. However it is capable of infringing on our privacy. We all have a legal expectation of privacy on our property. I am not interested in getting a restraining order limiting your veiw. I do expect you to be descrete and responcible about what you see. Can we agree to that?
Once you have told him, you can sue his pants off if he violates your privacy rights. We can observe criminal activity we can't spy on our neighbors. That is voyeurism and makes him a much bigger perv that a CD and hugely more of a threat to his neighbors. We all have our secrets including him.

[Tracii G]

Time to girl up and just walk out the door.LOL

[Beverley Sims]

Ask yourself this question.....

Do you care what your neighbours do?

I think they care less about you, unless you are holding rowdy parties every night. :-)

[Tracii G]

Seems a shame you are held captive in your own house by a neighbors camera.
There is always spray paint.

[Diane Smith]

Seriously, would a small but carefully placed fence help avoid any trouble? I realize that in an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary, but it may be an unavoidable cost of doing business in this case.

Randi49 makes a good point also. He's going to get awfully tired of receiving text alerts about every mail carrier, door to door salesman or stray dog that crosses his property, so I'm sure that feature will be turned off or scaled way back soon.

- Diane

[Rachelakld]

My wife used to want me to cover my head with a jacket, and wear another jacket to hide my chest - That was last summer in the boiling heat.
I've finally convinced her, it would be more discrete if someone who looks like a female leaves the house rather than a burglar from the Antarctic.
So my advise - leave as a female because females are actually allowed outside now-a-days.

[deebra]

Racheal, if you got a spot light, not a flood light and turned it on when you go out and pointed it directly at his security light lense, wouldn't that negate his cameras lense? You could put it on a timer to cut off and back on when you returned. If you have a friend that has a security camera you could test this on his camera.

Then if when you left dressed and looked like Sophia Viagra you could tell him your sister is staying with you.

[CONSUELO]

If your neighbors wishes to be voyeurs then let him. I say just go ahead and live your life as you want. It is not their business and they should not invade your private life. As many have posted here, just being out in the open about your cross dressing is often the best way. What will your neighbors say or do?

[Amy Lynn3]

Keep Mission Impossible in mind reading this. If your neighbor brings it up about recording you going out, tell him you were on a mission. Tell him you have a part time job doing detective work and you have been hired to follow people who are suspected of cheating on their spouse. Tell him not to disclose your part time job to anyone, as you have neighbors as customers.

I might even try dressing as a clown one time, just to prove I must use different costumes to do my job of staying under cover. Tell him next time he may see you as a belly dancer or fireman. Play with his mind a bit.:D

[Sidney]

Paranoia can eat you up. MOST people have camera security systems to protect THEIR property period and don't review recordings unless a problem on their property. Mine are set to show MY property and hardly show half the street. Now if someone is watching you, hell give them a show. Remember stores don't review the previous 24 hours of recorded activity to see if they've been robbed, only if robbed. Dont worry about it to much.

[Micki_Finn]

I’d say the most obvious solution is to set off his cameras as much as possible so that he gets so annoyed he re-aims the cameras or turns off the notifications and stops checking the footage.

[Rollermiss]

I guess I am lucky my neighbors are no closer then 120 yards. If they have cameras at that distance you couldn't see anything clearly. That is why I live where I do. I couldn't live in a place with people breathing down my neck. We use cameras at work, it saves in the legality dept. While I don't go out in my own town. I do leave my house for a drive dressed. All my personnel vehicles have tinted windows and keep them up until I clear town.

Kelsey

[Stephanie47]

Recently on the local news and it even made it to the national news there was posted video of two "porch pirates" making off with an Amazon package. The security camera showed the entire street. The porch, the street, the houses across the street. Probably the safest time to leave the house would be when the neighbors are home. I cannot imagine anyone would be watching the passing cars, dog walkers, et al every time the sensor went off. Yes, if the person was at work and expecting a package. I know it can be annoying. When I was down the street in the dark to get my mail (150 feet) numerous motion detectors go off. I don't know if anyone is recording the street. I'm not en femme so it does not matter. If you are parked at the curb there may no way to avoid setting the sensor off. If you go out at night and the sensor goes off when you are on your own driveway, then I would talk to the neighbor about limiting the area the sensor is protecting. It would be annoying if a light from across the street goes off and shines in my window every time a car goes past the neighbors house.

[Kelly DeWinter]

I was watching Get Smart yesterday, whats needed is :
. Cone of Obscurity (based on Cone of Silence)
. Bedroom to Car tube of transportation

anyone else ?

[CONSUELO]

I re-read the replies here and began to get the impression that going out dressed as a woman in public is a terrible crime.
What if you are a gay person, man or woman, and you want to go out together with your lover, perhaps holding hands. Would you be worried about being shown on your neighbors security camera and feel as if you have to sneak around to avoid being seen.
Some of the advice would suit someone who is trying to do something nefarious. Cross dressing is not a crime or an offense. Why do we, and I include myself in the "we, act as if it were.

[Pat]

OK, here's what to do:

First, go out in a gorilla suit. Then go dressed as a Power Ranger. Then a cowboy. Then an astronaut. Then a clown. By then, your neighbor will have decided that you're screwing with him -- if he sees you dressed as a woman, he'll just flip a silent middle finger to the monitor and skip to the next "event."

OR you can just own your own life and not worry about it. ;)

[Jenny22]

A possible solution ... Completely underdress at home, and if your outer femme wear is of light weight material, make it part of your underdress, too. Have everything else you'll need / want in the car, and it becomes your mobile closet. This works for me when I need it.

[Meghan4now]

Meh,
I see you are in the SF Area, so you may be challenged. I have a garage, and can pull out when needed. But currently I have something in the garage, so only my wife can park there. My wig looks enough like my wifes, the casual observer won't notice. Being in Midwest suburbia, I have enough room between houses to not trip anything and have a good distance.

For you, you could wear an over coat and hat, change shoes and wig when you get in the car?

[Rachel M]

Thanks for all the great responses. Some of you are quite witty. If I'm fully en femme, I won't sweat the cameras and carry on. I did convince the neighbor across the street to show my his different view his system had to offer. I am fine with his set up because his angles were so acute they didn't show my front yard. I guess I will girl up and not worry about what they see.

[Tracy Irving]

In nice weather I will walk my dog at night. A few doors away my neighbor has some cameras in the trees. I can't imagine the images being sharp enough to "out" me even if his life was empty enough to continue watching video after all these years.