St. John’s: The Reality Show
So I was on a walk in my neighborhood yesterday and I passed that sign. Took me a full minute to digest the smiley face and the instruction to smile because I was being taped. I stopped at the next house over and thought about walking on, but then I took out my camera and snapped a picture. Notice how I was not directly in front of the sign. That’s because I was too creeped out to stand in front of it and be videotaped while taking a picture of a sign telling me I’m being videotaped. Doesn’t it just give you goosebumps a little?
I came home and wondered what the hell they were taping. Unless those babies have infrared lenses, I don’t know how interesting the guy across the way tinkering with his car is. His ass crack was hanging out, but I doubt there’s much of an interest for that on the internet. Though, judging by my junk mail filter, it might be really, really interesting to about three people, but why not send it out to every single person with hotmail?
So what’s that person taping? Is he taping the crooks who came by his house a few nights ago, read the sign and then ran home for their masks and gloves? Is he taping the mailman on his rounds. My mailman is really cute but he comes around almost every day. He does the same thing each time. Why tape it? It’s already a loop.
I know guys piss on the bushes around these parts, but really, if a guy is pissing on bushes in the middle of the day, that guy wants his schlong on the internet. A sign won’t stop him, he’ll be calling his friends.
And then I started wondering how many videotapes it would require to tape the neighborhood day after day. Hundreds? Thousands? Maybe he just tapes over each day. And so does he sit there and unwind with the fast forwarding, black and white image of his neighbor’s house? Nothing. Nothing. Woman with a camera trying to be sneaky taking a picture of my sign. Nothing.
Seriously, that sign is not homemade. Can you pick one up at Home Depot next to the No Parking signs? And because this has been haunting me for more than 24 hours, I’m thinking I need to get a few cameras and a sign, because I might have a little too much time on my hands and nothing soothes the soul like watching my neighbor’s house sit in the rain. Oh and did I mention my mailman is cute?
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You know, what’s funny is that I’ve thought many times about putting up a sign that says something similar to that in my yard. And no, I don’t have any video cameras. But I get so irritated with people allowing their dogs to crap in my yard and people coming in my yard and picking my flowers (yes, this has happened repeatedly), oh, and occasionally helping themselves to my lawn ornaments, that it occurred to me a sign letting them know they’re being videotaped might act as a deterrent. Thing is, I haven’t done it and I don’t know anyone who has, so I can’t say if it would actually work.
It’s pretty simple really. You can get a couple good video camera’s cheap (about 80 bucks) now adays on the internet. They hook up to your computer and it just overwrites the old stuff. They’re set up on a motion detector so you only get footage when someone walks by. It’s great as a crime deterant and if someone is stupid enough to get caught doing something bad while on camera it helps the cops out enormously. I whole-heartily recommend people set these up on thier houses.
St Johns is full of tweakers and petty crime trash thugs. In addition to the video taping a dog is a great way to make some one think twice before breaking in your house or apt.
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