Two bikes briefly stolen

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

Overnight our two bicycles were stolen from our front porch on Prichard Ave (south of Ball Square). We recovered them in the driveway next door -- presumably they were ditched when the Kryptonite locks locking the front tires to the frame were discovered.

The fact that both were taken at once suggests to me that this was an operation by at least two people to sweep up unsecured bikes in the area.

Comments

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Many SLR's will do "trap shooting" where it will trip the shutter as soon as something comes into focus (some you have to trick into doing this (like most of the canon dslrs) but it's possible to do). Probably a saner solution would be to use a web cam and run software that only saves sections of time when something significantly changes in the frame. The webcam is cheap and there's software to do it for free.

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

great! what about one with night vision or do have to consider providing a light source?

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

all webcams have night vision; the trick is that there's an infrared filter installed which must be removed. Then you have to illuminate the scene with infrared. It looks dark to thieves, but it is as bright as day for the webcam.

(for fun, cheap webcams can be used this way to make personal 'nightvision goggles')