legal or illegal maybe just not right

[phil74501]

From the looks of the pic and video two different things are going on. In the video, the camera is pointed at his property, and it just happens to cover part of the neighbors property. It would be impossible to aim a camera down your property line, and it not cover part of the other person's property. I do have some experience with cameras. It's kinda hard, if not impossible, to point a camera at anything where it's not going to cover part of other people's property. Unless you buy every acre as far as your eye can see and mount the camera in the middle of that area. The camera in the first pic posted by the OP is different. It, from appearances, is intentionally aimed in a direction to record OP's property and only OP's property. It's hard to be 100% certain in either case unless you're on site and can see things first hand.

I would add that I thought these hillbilly Okies around here could be some nosy ass busy bodies. You New Yorkers got em beat.

 

[Aristotelian]

From the looks of the pic and video two different things are going on. In the video, the camera is pointed at his property, and it just happens to cover part of the neighbors property. It would be impossible to aim a camera down your property line, and it not cover part of the other person's property. I do have some experience with cameras. It's kinda hard, if not impossible, to point a camera at anything where it's not going to cover part of other people's property. Unless you buy every acre as far as your eye can see and mount the camera in the middle of that area. The camera in the first pic posted by the OP is different. It, from appearances, is intentionally aimed in a direction to record OP's property and only OP's property. It's hard to be 100% certain in either case unless you're on site and can see things first hand.

I would add that I thought these hillbilly Okies around here could be some nosy ass busy bodies. You New Yorkers got em beat.

How come most of what is visible in the video is what appears to be a lady driving a tractor around her yard? OP admits that his camera is aimed at her yard, he just sees a moral distinction between his camera aiming at the back of her yard and her camera aiming at his house. The bulk of the video should be his yard with the lines visible at the edge otherwise he is invading her privacy too. Either way the underlying problem is that these neighbors don't trust each other.

 

[fatherdan]

Can we have the whole story?

Something is missing.

Would like a better view of where,both cameras are. It should be very cut and dry.

Your past should have zero to do with what's going on.

Would love to know a complete timeline of this drama.

 

[flars]

Looks like the neighbor lady is trying to do you a favor. She didn't have a post maul on the tractor so is trying to reset your corner post with the bucket. When that didn't work to her satisfaction added a brace.

 

[Bowtiebrewery]

One thing is for certain... She is a hippy... hehe.. Sorry... Looks to me like if anything your camera could come in a few degrees so the surveying angle was more in view of your property line and back yard rather than theirs. if something happens in that property line then you move it back because you now have reasonable suspicion of vandalism by your neighbor. As far as their game camera they put up, if you know you can't deal with them face to face or fear interaction with them, you have your options.

1. Block the camera's view from your yard with something that impedes their view and see if they move it to a better location. I would actually change your security camera's view to directly view that camera instead so you can see if and when they decide to move it based on your actions in your yard. At that point, you have visual evidence that your neighbor is intentionally intending to invade your privacy. Get lawyers involved at that point.

2. Call an attorney and cut to the chase and file a suit against them.

Personally I like option number 1 because you are not doing anything illegal, and you are not unnecessarily involving lawyers. If your neighbor decides to then move the camera to get a better view, you have that on surveillance footage and you have her caught in the act. She can't deny that it was re-positioned for some other reason.

Good luck, but first and foremost, I WOULD ADVISE changing the angle of your security camera.

 

[Newsman]

Bowtiebrewery -- it looks like the security (video) camera is pointed at the corner of the OP's property. Not much he can do if he's wanting to keep an eye on his property. Maybe drop the angle a touch, to JUST cover the corner, but regardless, he's going to have some of the neighbor's yard in view. At least with this view, the OP can see down both sides of his property line for a way.

What I'd do is get a big concave parabolic mirror and put it on a pole directly in front of the neighbor's game camera. Then if they move the camera, you've got 'em by the short and curlies as it's deliberately pointed at your yard. Nice thing is there's no destruction of their equipment, just making it show a distorted picture of their own property.

 

[phil74501]

How come most of what is visible in the video is what appears to be a lady driving a tractor around her yard? OP admits that his camera is aimed at her yard, he just sees a moral distinction between his camera aiming at the back of her yard and her camera aiming at his house. The bulk of the video should be his yard with the lines visible at the edge otherwise he is invading her privacy too. Either way the underlying problem is that these neighbors don't trust each other.

I thought the OP said that the fence in that video, where the lady with the tractor is at, is the property line. Aim the camera straight down the property line and it will show both peoples property. Now where the camera is aimed could also depend upon what the OP has to mount it on. That's one of the reasons why I said a person would have to actually go there and see things first hand to be able to make a proper decision on the propriety of the camera/cameras. Isn't the camera the OP is complaining about, the one in the original pic on this thread, from a different neighbor...not the lady on the tractor? I assumed it was. From the pic it is, apparently, aimed straight at him, and only at him.

 

[Norselord]

I thought the OP said that the fence in that video, where the lady with the tractor is at, is the property line. Aim the camera straight down the property line and it will show both peoples property. Now where the camera is aimed could also depend upon what the OP has to mount it on. That's one of the reasons why I said a person would have to actually go there and see things first hand to be able to make a proper decision on the propriety of the camera/cameras. Isn't the camera the OP is complaining about, the one in the original pic on this thread, from a different neighbor...not the lady on the tractor? I assumed it was. From the pic it is, apparently, aimed straight at him, and only at him.

Is it at all possible that the OP positioned himself in such a way so as to get the best possible picture of the camera on the pole? Thereby making it appear as if it is aimed straight at him?

The best way to determine this is with the property plats, the camera field of view angle and placements...