{"id":4599,"date":"2017-10-30T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2017-10-30T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:52:33","slug":"sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4599","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to spend some of my hard-earned retirement funds on a new doorbell button. It\u2019s a bit more than a button. It is the \u201cRing\u201d video monitor doorbell button.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Halloween is here, and it will be fun capturing the visitors, but that is not the reason I made the investment. We are in an age of front door delivery. A lot of services leave packages at the door. Some ring the bell and some just drop and run. A few will knock. There is no consistency, not even with the same carrier.<\/p>\n

Amazon and UPS are the better, as I usually get an almost instant text message. Sometimes a few moments BEFORE they are at the door.<\/p>\n

Now EVERY delivery will be video recorded.<\/p>\n

Nothing I know of, has ever been taken (yet). The surveillance won\u2019t stop a thief, but it may identify the person. That\u2019s better than nothing. Some may recognize the Ring camera, and that could be a deterrent.<\/p>\n

 This summer I had a small gang of neighborhood kiddies stop out front while one of them made a dash up to the porch. I think he was going to steal some of the porch decorations my wife has out, to impress the gang. I suddenly opened the door and I think he almost wet himself.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t know my office window is two feet from the front door.<\/p>\n

The problem is I am not always in my office. In my opinion, the intense media coverage of porch theft encourages this sort of juvenile action. Monkey see, monkey do, a catch 22 when making porch theft a media event. I never see a message of them being caught. Just an example of how easy it is to get away. Tisk<\/p>\n

My plan is to do what I can to help identify the problem people.<\/p>\n

I have a \u201cNo Solicitors\u201d sign at my front door. I have seen it turn many of those folks away. I now have video proof of the few I have to tell, \u201cRead and heed the sign.\u201d Little kid girl scouts with cookies are granted an exception.<\/p>\n

I live in the 21st<\/sup> century and live with the technology of spy cameras watching everything, everywhere. Eyewitnesses are terribly inaccurate and not concise, but the ubiquitous video eye remembers every detail.  A sign of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to spend some of my hard-earned retirement funds on a new doorbell button. It\u2019s a bit more than a button. It is the \u201cRing\u201d video monitor doorbell button. Halloween is here, and it will be fun capturing the visitors, but that is not the reason I made the investment. We are in an age of front door delivery. A lot of services leave packages at the door. Some ring the bell and some...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,86,187],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-culture","tag-home","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}