Targeted Individuals

J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
I started this thread so anyone who feels like they've been targeted in some way by anyone can share their experience. This can be for any reason, not only that they've had a visit by the MIB or are the target of some kind of psyop. It could be stalking or road rage, having your place broken into, bank account frozen, computer hacked — whatever the case. It might not even seem like you were "targeted". Maybe it's just a small thing that you just can't explain other than as someone ( or something ) sending you some kind of unnerving message.

I suppose that cyberstalking could also count, but let's not get to carried away thinking that anyone you get into an argument with flames you online needs to be included, otherwise I'd have a few gigabytes of those ( lol ). I mean more serious cases.

Car Windshield Broken

Anyway, yesterday around 3:00 PM Calgary time I was having a nap, when someone came up into my driveway and smashed a hole through my rear windshield. This was done on purpose to send some kind of message, because my car was unlocked and nothing was taken. Besides, even if it was locked, if they wanted into my car, the middle of the rear window wouldn't be where a thief would break in, because you can't reach the door locks from there.

I've lived here for 25 years and my neighbors are not suspects — all good folks. But there was a greebly dude I'd never seen before with a real dark wave who came by the day before asking to borrow my lawn mower. I refused, because it has mechanical issues. He went off looking pissed, and my gut feeling is that he did it out of spite because of that — but no proof.

I've had other weird things happen over the years, but will reserve them for later — if the thread sparks any interest.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Hmmm. At one time I thought cameras were weird but now I have the whole perimeter of my house and garage covered. The technology is cheap and ubiquitous.

Some guy you don't know wants to borrow your lawnmower? Whose lawn did he want to mow and why ? Pretty sure if I wandered around another neighborhood randomly asking people for lawn equipment they'd have a similar response.
 
J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
pigfarmer said:
Hmmm. At one time I thought cameras were weird but now I have the whole perimeter of my house and garage covered. The technology is cheap and ubiquitous.

Some guy you don't know wants to borrow your lawnmower? Whose lawn did he want to mow and why ? Pretty sure if I wandered around another neighborhood randomly asking people for lawn equipment they'd have a similar response.
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Indeed. I'm not in a high-crime neighborhood, and until the City grew to over a million, I never had any problems at all. It might not have been the greebly lawn mower man who did it, but some people are triggered easier than others. The next most likely explanation is that it was hit by a local glass business. I imagine you're aware that they do that. Same with tire places and body shops. They hire lowlifes to spike tires and key cars to get business.

It goes on in most bigger cities and police are well-aware that it happens. The restaurant business is the same. I remember when I was in my teens, my buddy who worked at a pizza shop said his boss offered him 2 grand for each local competitor that he set fire to. It's a sad and dirty world out there. Maybe I should feel lucky this is the only time it's ever happened to me the whole time I've lived here.

If I wanted to be paranoid that it had something to do with bigger things, I did recently send two complaints to the local news about their biased reporting on the Trump trial and the indigenous residential school "mass graves" story, the later of which did incite over 30 church burnings here in Canada along with various other acts of vandalism. However I left out my contact info — so unless they have a cyber-tracker expert on staff, I'm not sure how they'd know where it came from.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I suppose they do but around here that would be kind of odd. It's not something I've heard of.

I dunno, a stranger randomly wants to borrow a tool of mine I would not say it's broken I'd just tell him sorry I don't loan out tools to strangers. Period. If he were so desperate for a ..... lawnmower ...... I'd go see where and what he's on about if I were in a warm and fuzzy mood.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
pigfarmer said:
I suppose they do but around here that would be kind of odd. It's not something I've heard of.

I dunno, a stranger randomly wants to borrow a tool of mine I would not say it's broken I'd just tell him sorry I don't loan out tools to strangers. Period. If he were so desperate for a ..... lawnmower ...... I'd go see where and what he's on about if I were in a warm and fuzzy mood.
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Years ago I loaned my next door neighbor my 6 month old riding lawn mower once and he blew it up...That cost me over 1200 dollars and did not even get an apology from him..I will never loan a neighbor anything of mine again...

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J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
pigfarmer said:
I suppose they do but around here that would be kind of odd. It's not something I've heard of.
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It happens more than you might think:

greensboro.com

GLASS COMPANY OWNER GETS TIME FOR BREAKING WINDOWS

The owner of a glass replacement company was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for breaking more than $150,000 worth of store windows in New York City to drum
greensboro.com greensboro.com

pigfarmer said:
I dunno, a stranger randomly wants to borrow a tool of mine I would not say it's broken I'd just tell him sorry I don't loan out tools to strangers. Period. If he were so desperate for a ..... lawnmower ...... I'd go see where and what he's on about if I were in a warm and fuzzy mood.
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I've loaned it to my other neighbor before, but it's getting old and has a couple of metal fatigue fractures around the housing, and the throttle goes nearly full bore all the time. That's after I just managed to get it running after it being completely out of commission — so I just said, "My lawn mower has issues",. But by the way he took it, I think he knew he thought I was just blowing him off — which because of his vibe is actually partly true.

I'm not wealthy — I barely get by every month, and I need to get dental work done that I can't afford either, and I just spent a bunch on other auto repairs. I thought I was out of the woods for a bit — until this. It gets depressing. I know — I know — it's my own fault for not becoming a superstar so I have no right to complain, but it just is what it is. Apparently the "luck of the Irish" can be taken as either a positive or a negative, and so far I haven't struck it rich — yet :p !
 
J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
BTW: My daily driver is just and old 2007 Buick Allure — best one I've ever owned.

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Some land developers employ similar harassment tactics. And today I get this in my mailbox ( lol ).

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Now I'm seeing conspiracies everywhere :shock: !
 
J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
Schrammatt777 said:
Im glade your ok man. Thank God
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Front & rear glass replaced at CalAlta Auto Glass for around $800 CDN. No insurance coverage. Great job — done in 2 hours. Now I just have to eat spaghetti for a month to pay the bill. As much as everyone is griping about the carbon tax here in Canada — the rebate ( about $240 ) helped take a bit of the sting out of it. I just hope whoever did it got it out of their system.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
My wife is tuned into some sort of neighborhood app and it has turned up a few things that surprised me. It really is a useful local info sharing app. What's App or something like that. Maybe there is some analog in your neighborhood? Just a thought.

Vehicle break ins. Never had to lock my doors on anything but now we do. One of my neighbors had a laptop lifted out of his soft top Jeep recently. The area has changed.

I know you're eating spaghetti but the Wyze cameras I use (each has an SD card for local storage) run $40 or less on sale and you seem plenty saavy enough to figure that out. No cloud storage, everything's local and the app works.

Sorry you have to put up with that.
 
Schrammatt777

Schrammatt777

Adept
J Randall Murphy said:
Front & rear glass replaced at CalAlta Auto Glass for around $800 CDN. No insurance coverage. Great job — done in 2 hours. Now I just have to eat spaghetti for a month to pay the bill. As much as everyone is griping about the carbon tax here in Canada — the rebate ( about $240 ) helped take a bit of the sting out of it. I just hope whoever did it got it out of their system.
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There deffently going to get karma for it.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
hmmmmm. Apparently Wyze introduced a 'cool down period' between event recordings that you need to pay to get past - and did it retroactively to all of them with a firmware update. It's clear as mud however because the new cam with an sdcard seems to be doing it's job. Meaning, under certain circumstances motion events may not be recorded yet mine appear to be.
 
nivek

nivek

As Above So Below
pigfarmer said:
Apparently Wyze introduced a 'cool down period' between event recordings that you need to pay to get past - and did it retroactively to all of them with a firmware update.
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That is dishonest business practice, something once free now behind a pay wall...They have not done that yet to the Dzee cameras I use but I will be watching that with the future firmware updates...It may be something all of the security camera businesses may try to exploit...

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pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
nivek said:
That is dishonest business practice, something once free now behind a pay wall...They have not done that yet to the Dzee cameras I use but I will be watching that with the future firmware updates...It may be something all of the security camera businesses may try to exploit...

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They all do it to one degree or another. Most don't realize those nifty doorbells will absolutely require a subscription as they have no provision for local storage.

Blink did a pretty good job when I looked at them last a year or two ago but their catch is that while you are in live view they do not record. They do have a clever local backup gadget though.

I am not yet sure that this is a problem for me - you really have to experiment and I think sometimes good enough is, but it doesn't mean I like that nonsense. They are a bit obscure about what you can and can't actually do in local recording mode which is how I use them. Beyond that they have been excellent little cheap cameras. That said, I now have six of those thing. The seventh is just sitting there and may go back to Amazon, we'll see how this v4 works out. For $25 I am willing to gamble on one. Nice quality picture anyway.
 
J Randall Murphy

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
The big takeaway these days is that the "non-ionizing radiation" argument against concerns about EM exposure is a red herring — irrelevant to other disruptive effects that EM radiation has on normal cellular function. Remember this next time someone drags out yet another "non-ionizing" radiation argument.
 
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