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I appear to have a "Peeping Tom," and/or stalker. I've encountered several instances where someone was attempting to look through my bedroom window. Once was at 3:00am, another at 7:30am. We are looking into getting a security systemt, motion sensors, etc. Does anyone know of any good, reasonably priced home security devices? I was thinking of getting something for my window specifically, since the encounters have occurred on my end of our 3 bedroom town home.
Yeah, get yourself a big dog. Or def. get those motion sensors and put them at the front door, back door and outside your window. Do you think its your ex? Security systems are very expensive and since you dont own the place I dont think it would be wise to have one installed. the motion lights are enough to scare them away.
My roommate & I love to lay in the sun by our pool topless. With minimun half acre zoning our our neighbors aren't a problem. We have tons of privacy. the property is fenced in, heavy with mature bushes and the like. The pool area is even more private as it has buildings on 3 sides & the area above has 15 ft tall Xylosma congestun. Lately our neighbor's 13 year old son a a friend have been sneaking in from above & hide in the Xylosmas spying on us from above. Forget talking to his parents & calling the Sheriff way out here for a peeping Tom is crazy. Any suggestions for a landscape cure to our problem? Our fences are at zoneing limits & the boys still climb over. Help.
at 13 the hormones will be raging and when they know you lay by the pool topless, they will be hard to stop.
Can you get a big beach umbrella and put up beside you, between you and them, to block their view without blocking the sun?
Otherwise, maybe you could talk to them and come up with a compromise position. They have already seen all there is to see, so there's not much point being totally embarassed about them seeing you.
I sunbake and swim topless in my pool all the time. I am 16 and I cannot actually remember the last time I wore a bikini top in my pool. A couple of my guy friends used to try to spy on me and my friend who I swam with, and had sen us topless a few times. We decided the best answer was to invite them to swim with us. They could look as much as they wanted but no touching, no photos and no bringing other firends. We had control of the dituation, choosing when we swam and therefore when they saw us. We also took back total control of who else saw us.
It was a bit embarrassing at first but after the first couple of times we didn't care.
Wee Willie Winkie, running through the town
Upstairs, downstairs, in his NIGHTGOWN.
PEEPING through the windows, crying through the locks,
Are the children in their beds? It's past 8 o'clock.
Listening to this nursery rhyme with my kids, I thought about the words.
Is it just my impression, or is Wee Willie Winkie a peeping tom?
This poem dates back to the Commonwealth in England. Wee Willie was a public figure who made a lot of unnecessary rules for everyone to follow (like putting kids to bed by a certain hour). It was Puritan England and government butted into private lives a lot.
Now if you want a juicy one......
Rub a dub dub,
Three men in a tub,
And who do you think they be?
The butcher, the baker,
The candlestick maker.
Turn them out, knaves all three!
These three worthy gentlemen were all seen at a peepshow together. One of them was the mayor, but I don't remember which.
Oh, and there's
Hey, diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such sport
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
The important event in that one was the elopement of the Dish (the lord who took care of the royal dishes) with the Spoon (the royal taster) of Queen Elizabeth I. The rest refers to how Queen Elizabeth played with her court (she was the cat), the lavish entertainments (the cow jumped over the moon) and the little dog was a lord she referred to as her lap dog.
By the way, the Spoon's marriage was treasonous because she was third in line for the throne. She HAD to have Elizabeth's permission to marry. Lady Mary Grey was caught out when she got pregnant and spent the next seven years in the Tower with her husband and babies. Her two sons were NEVER considered in the succession even when the Stewart line died out.
What are the best strategies that someone can give for someone aspiring to be a peeping tom? Does anyone have any peeping tom stories or were you a victim of a peeping tom? What advice do you have for someone who was a victim?
Just wondering....
Well, I moved recently and am on a "1.5" floor of a 3 apartment building... We have a VERY large picture window that looks right on to the sidewalk.
My neighbors are STRANGE and I would catch them trying to look in as I unpacked...
So I went to Home Depot and got a translucent window film for the bottom half of the window... So I can see out but from the ground, no one can see in.
im not a peeping tom.. but i do have some interests in it since i have read a few questions about them..
what's the law against peeping tom?
say if you are inside your own apartment.. don't you have the right to look out the window and look at whatever you want outside.. as long as i don't disturb otheres..
like what next? you gonna sue me for sitting next to my window and looking outside all day?
It's different when you're looking into someone's window. That's creepy. And illegal.