Jim Lane

Surveillance Videos

Here are some interesting images from part of my surveillance system, things that for most people would go unnoticed.

Here a trash digger stops to steal an air conditioner compressor that I had sitting under the side of my trailer, notice at first he tries to get my HD Jack Stands but discovers I have a ½” welded chain securing them, so he then disconnected the cables and steals the deep cycle battery off from the front of my trailer.



Here a lady digs through my trash looking for personal information to steal; you see lights flash as soon as I hit the panic button on my truck alarm.

Notice the time when these crimes are happening.



Here is when someone tried to break into my truck to steal my tools, again notice the time.



And then again 3 years later, I think it is the same guy, same MO he even runs the same way.



Here a trash digger came onto my property and stole my Craftsman Pipe Threader Tripod that I had just taken out of my truck, I went into the house just for a second and my wife saw her on the monitor and yelled someone is at your truck, I ran out and confronted them as the Ice Cream man blocked them from leaving. Of course these stupid people claim they do not speak English and act dumb when you ask them why they stole it like they don't understand you, I grabbed my camera off my belt and took many pictures of the truck and of them.

After I took my tripod back out of the truck I called the Sheriff, they said there was no crime because I already recovered my property.

But I made a report and ran the truck plates; of course they were expired and were from Los Angeles area about 30 miles west of me.

Any trash digger that comes down our street we take their license number.

One weekend I was working on my brakes on my truck so I had all of the tires off and had just washed them so they were drying stacked on my lawn, I was under my truck when I saw a truck pull up and I saw feet make a beeline to my tires, I had my 500 watt work light on so the area was well lit, I came out from under the dark side of my truck with my torque wrench for a weapon and can of CS and when he saw me he ran back to his truck and sped off, wife saw the whole thing happen on the living room monitor and came out the door about the same time.



This has got to be my favorite.



We had a problem with Hispanic gardeners falling out of our tree.

Here is an Earthquake in the middle of the night, magnitude 4.5



This is another Earthquake.
Keep watching in the background.



There are a lot of things that go on unnoticed to most people.

I have also have images of nearby lightening strikes, neighbors Christmas lights shorting out and bursting into flames but the most disturbing was a black kid standing at the end of my driveway, pulls a gun out of his hoodie and points it at me while I was working in my garage, wife saw it as it was happening.

Here is a captured frame of that video.



I need to convert this proprietary file to AVI so I can post them.

Where I live it is supposed to be an upper class neighborhood but I an beginning to wonder.

My 4 independent systems run 24/7

Jim

Adaminak

Man...I'd either build a very large, very tall, very strong steel-siding fence around the entire property or just flat out move! That is seriously insane...

madhat

I've said it before, you need to move. I live 10 minutes from the border and I don't have problems like that.

Rampage1967

Nof offense Jim, but why do you want to live there??

BigIron70

Southern California has more gangs then anywhere else in the country except Chicago. Obama must be proud of that one. More people are leaving California then ever before. Now do you feel safe?

Shovelhead

You need to post a couple of these "Welcome" signs.

chaikwa

BEGINNING to wonder?

I'm afraid I'd have to second that question. If there was some reason I HAD to stay there, I'd be rigging something up in the back of the truck so when they opened the back door, they'd get a faceful of something. Shotgun, pepper spray, Vietnam-style stick spikes flying at them... SOMETHING. Capturing them on video is cool, but not good enough anymore, especially with the local law enforcement doing nothing for you.

madhat

Something that you guys gotta remember... this is Cali. Even though he has video of people stealing his stuff, when he retaliates, he is going to be in trouble. He'll probably go to the slammer if he uses non-lethal like pepper spray or a tazer, but I bet he'd get the chair if he shot someone.

chaikwa

Well that's the beauty of having something rigged in the truck. HE didn't do it. It was just in there and they must have gotten into it or something!

Mopar1973

Jim you have more tolerance and nerves than a lot of people for continually living in the area that you do after being through all of that. What happened with the gun incident?? and WHY do you still live there?

Lary Ellis (Top)

I couldn't live there....I do not possess the patience Jim has and would already have been locked up for going ballistic on somebody...

Lary Ellis (Top)

When I lived in Vacaville CA in the 70's I had a beautiful new home with a landscaped yard...essentially my front yard had a postage stamp sized putting green surrounded by plants and colored stone with automatic sprinkler system. Mowing my yard took 2 mins with a push mower

I was home on leave and would find this HUGE pile of dog poop right in the middle of my little grass lawn every morning, I dressed in all black and unscrewed the porch light bulb and sat in the corner waiting to see who was responsible....

About 30 mins before sun up this woman came walking down the street with this HUGE dog on a leash and she marched him right up to my little yard and stood there while he did his duty...

I jumped up and asked her where she lived and she got all indignant with me wanting to know why I wanted to know...I told her i had 2 dogs in the back and wanted to walk them down to her place so they could do their duty. She called me every name in the book for even suggesting such an evil thing and I could here her cussing me for a whole block as she left.

If I am willing to sit in the dark all night and await the "poo" burglar....imagine what I would do to a thief

soulezoo

Nope! No chair in Cali... lethal injection. But not that either because the three drug "cocktail" that was used was ruled "cruel and inhuman punishment" by a Federal Judge. So, Gov Moonbeam has dictated a "one drug cocktail" be used... except no one in the US makes the drug and the law says, you guessed it, the drug has to be US made...

And even if they had the drug, on average something close to 30years for the sentence to be carried out if at all. I recall the one guy on death row getting a heart transplant! Can have him dying before we kill him now, can we?

chaikwa

Ask them where they lived so you could poop on their lawn?

SIXSLUG

It can happen anywhere. A friend in an affluent neighborhood here in Washington gets prowled regularly. The video footage is kinda useless as they know where the cameras are and where hoodies. Also, the camera on the road picks up the reflection of the license plates as they go by when the motion lights come on. They pretty much just prowl the vehicles parked outside and nothing else. He knows its a neighbor's kid but can't prove anything.

Often, the only time he knows they have been thru is if he checks the footage randomly.

I am afraid if the economy goes much worse, guarding your stuff will become a daily full time job as people get more and more brazen in their will to survive.