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Yes, make a log. Not lay a log! I had a Meth house across from me and still do. But Portland Drugs & Vice do drive by more often and actually stop and let them know they are watching. Write down times and take license plate numbers. Do they own that house? If not, contact the Land Lord. If you still can't get good taxpayer quality service you should act crazy while talking to the police, make vague threats about those people. When your at the end of your options acting crazy is a good one. Works for N. Korea.

"When the going get weird, the weird go pro"

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OT - Evil Genius nice sig.... One of the best lines ever written by Hunter

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, I'm alittle concerned too. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hey back off, I didn't burn the house down. My point was that by removing the crap housing, you remove the riff-raff.

The house burned down because they were burning old roof shingles in the wood stove.

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I read recently that someone had similar problems and started putting up signs stating that the property next to their house was a suspected drug house. According to the article, activity virtually stopped soon after and the neighbors moved on to "greener" pastures.

Don't know anything about any sort of liability / slander but according to what I read, it was extremely effective and non-violent.

Personally, the violence approach appeals more to me, but the non-violent approach is always more socially acceptable... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

If I can find the article again, I'll post a link.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's still assault, and illegal. You better have damn good reason, and preferably a witness or two.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Attention can do alot. Thats always part of the plan with "neighborhood watch" or "subway guardians" or "taking back the neighborhood" programs.

I think Im in 5 different police reports credited with forestalling what could have been nasty situations just by having a determined tourist attitude. The Last one was a guy who left an argument and came back with a shotgun. I stood out on the sidewalk watching it all like it was some sort of TV show. He got mad and tried to order me away. I didnt get into an argument but I wouldnt leave.

As far as this situation, maybe you can arrange with neighbors to provide more lighting in that direction at night. Get manikins and put them in the windows. Put in motion-sensor lights which are pretty cheap and set them too sensitive so that even pets and bats make them turn on. Accidently set your car alarm off alittle too often. Get the neighbors to park their cars nearer to that house and space them just barely too close for someone to park between them so that some of the visitors cant just pull up and do a quick park-n-go right in front. All of this would make the neighborhood seem like its no longer one that someone can quietly enter and leave without being noticed.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's still assault, and illegal. You better have damn good reason, and preferably a witness or two. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">'They were skulking about my property at night' seems to me a perfectly good reason for bodily harm. And as for proof, that's what the camera's are for.

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have you ever been hit with a stungun or pepper spray? it mainly serves to piss you off. sure it hurts, but it does not take very long to figure out that its not killing you, and after that you have an angry person with alot of adreniline on your hands.

and like the man said, its illegal to assault someone with a non-leathal weapon. if you dont want to risk retaliation and incarceration for vigalante actions, starting a joint action program with your neighbors is probably the best thing to do. police or sheriffs departments usually support or sponsor such things.

and there are popup adds for those x10 cameras all over the f-cking internet. I hate to endorse popup ad spammers, but they are the most widely known, cheap, effective spycam type thing. there are probably similar things from all sorts of different vendors, web-cam sorts of things.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, I'm alittle concerned too.

[ June 17, 2004, 12:15: Message edited by: Combat Wombat ]

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I thought the good thing about living in the U.S.A. was that if someone tresspassed on your property, you had a legal right to blow their head off with the highest caliber automated rifle you own.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

I did a search and found this: Electronic Yard Fence
It's a motion detector that emits light and ear piercing noise when set off. It's only got a 15 foot range though, so you might need quite a few if your property is big.

Better yet, put in some Electric Fencing: Electric Fencing
So far the highest voltage I've found is in the above link (10,000 Volts), although most seem to average out around 4,000 to 5,000 Volts.