Strangers parked outside you'r House...

[hardeyes]

Hello;

Recently there have been different vehicles parked ( with different people ), infront of my house, & sometimes across the street.

I do not like it, due to the fact that there has been a carjacking, and other stolen cars being dumped across the street.

Here is the question, aside from takeing the Vehicle's plate number, what else can be done to make them leave.

I live in a cul-de-sack, on a very quiet nieghborhood, everyone basically knows each other, so we know when a vehicle/person doesn't belong.

So, what can be done/avoided.

Thanks, Hardeyes

[tact-shooter]

Call the P.D. and report suspicious persons. They'll send a unit out to check them out. Once a resident calls in a suspicious person the officer has a reason to investigate their presence. They'll usually send the vehicle on it's way unless it's were it belongs. Then again you do live in Kalifornia, so the police might not be allowed to contact people just because they're suspicious.

[flatrock]

Are the people hanging around the street? If so the police might be able to have them leave if they are violating some kind of loitering ordinance.

In my area you are allowed to park a car on a public street for no more than 24 hours, unless a shorter duration is posted.

Unless the law is different there, you may be out of luck for making them move thier car.

[misskitty5077]

I always call the Sheriff's Dept for suspicious vehicles in this neighborhood. I live in a development, on the last street. There are four houses on the street and we all know each other's friends' vehicles. If there is something here that doesn't belong, somebody always calls ;)

The Sheriff's Dept sends somebody right out and they are always told to leave after determining they do not have any business here :)

[hardeyes]

Hello;

You know, I don't have a problem with stopping to rest, and or eating lunch, or a bunch of kids waiting for thier friends, But these are grown men, waiting & doing nothing more than checking the place out.

I have a child that likes to ride thier bike around the block, so I have to make sure they are alright, and that everything is put away, and that my cars alarm is on, etc.

I check the inside of the house, and make sure that the backyard is alright.

Thanks for info, & take care. Hardeyes

[Blah!]

Could be a private investigator.

[Bikenut]

Could be sexual activity...... the gender of the occupants doesn't matter much these days. Had a female from the neighborhood bring her "friends for pay" to the end of our street because it was an out of the way spot. A few visits from the police made her change her business location.

These days... any suspicious vehicles or pedestrians need to be watched or reported. Confronting them on your own is very risky. But there are things that can be done short of confrontation. Go to the car making it look like you are getting something. Check the mailbox. If nightime turn on a porch light. Do things that make it obvious someone is around. Whether or not a gun is carried while doing these things is up to you.

[Don Joe]

If this were happening across the street from where I lived, I would be very proactive about it. I would go door to door and ask if anyone has business with these people. If it is evident that they shouldn’t be loitering around outside your house, then its time to setup surveillance. It’s amazing how cheap some of this stuff is. Just get a pair of decent binoculars, some listening equipment and setup shop in your house. Log the arrival and departure times etc. Who are the occupants staring at?, which house?, for how long? etc. If you can hear conversation then log it. Get liscence plates, makes, models, descriptions of occupants etc. If ANYTHING said or done is illegal, call the police immediately.

[hapuna]

Originally posted by misskitty5077
I always call the Sheriff's Dept for suspicious vehicles in this neighborhood. I live in a development, on the last street. There are four houses on the street and we all know each other's friends' vehicles. If there is something here that doesn't belong, somebody always calls ;)

The Sheriff's Dept sends somebody right out and they are always told to leave after determining they do not have any business here :)

So its illegal to be parked on a public street where you live?? I think the cops coming out to check things out is right but after that I don't get why a person can't rest innocently on a public road parked properly?

[misskitty5077]

Originally posted by hapuna
So its illegal to be parked on a public street where you live?? I think the cops coming out to check things out is right but after that I don't get why a person can't rest innocently on a public road parked properly?

This is not going to make a lot of sense...but I'll try...

We live in a development at the end of the street. We bought the lots adjoining our property to avoid anybody moving in on us. The road right in front of our house extends down into the middle of the lots we own but it was never completed and opened. That is the state road. Due to it not being opened in XX years, and the fact that we owned all the property there, we have a deed to the parcel of land that is actually the road. In other words, every single time I have called and complained, the person was sitting on *our* land.

I told you it wouldn't make a lot of sense...

[pako]

Hi All,

I am a federal leo in Florida, and there have been many occasions when, while I was on surveillance in my unmarked car, I was "rousted" by a marked local police car called by a concerned citizen. I would id myself and state that I was "on the job" and they would leave (usually after putting in some remark about the Feds never letting them know when they were around - "professional courtesy"). By that time though it would usually be too late to salvage the surveillance that day and my team and I would leave and resume later. Point is your block was probably just getting an extra set of "block watchers" that day for free, courtesy of Uncle Sugar! Regards Pako.

PS: Almost forgot, we would also get the name of the busy-body who called the locals and refer them to the IRS for a tax audit. ONLY KIDDING :)

[Joe_Blough]

Get one of those 1,000,000 candle power spot lights and shine it at them from your house.

[V Creed]

Originally posted by hardeyes
Hello;

Recently there have been different vehicles parked ( with different people ), infront of my house, & sometimes across the street.

I do not like it

So, what can be done/avoided.

Thanks, Hardeyes

Don't worry, especially if you are an Arab, it's probably just the FBI. ;z

[Bikenut]

Let me see.... there is a car parked outside my house, maybe they are criminals which would give me cause for pause, or maybe they are federal officers which I should feel safe about? I think not! No, it isn't the feds that I would be concerned about but the reason they are there... if there is something going on in my neighborhood that warrants federal attention shouldn't that concern me big time?

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we have LE of all levels, local, state, federal (including the federal levels we aren't supposed to know about), and international. LE people who stick their necks out to get the bad guys have my deepest respect. However, when I see LE (yes, a savvy citizen who isn't a criminal can also "make" LE) around acting either furtive or purposeful I know there is airborne manure around too and I go on high alert also. Not that I'll get myself involved in any way but I'll be prepared that something is up. Just seeing LE doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy safe... it is a sign not all is well.

Am I being paranoid? Oh... sorry.. that was a different thread.

[tact-shooter]

Who cares if it's the feds (which I doubt) call the P.D. anyway if you're uncomfortable. You're not the one who has to decide if it's legal to hang out on a public road or not! Let the police do that. If everything is o.k. then no harm if it's not then you may have stopped something from happening.:soap:

[hitecrednek]

this scenero happened in my neighborhood.....I saw the car hanging around and didn't get suspicious; a few days later my next door neighbor was robbed. He lost a stamp collection he had started as a kid.

So now, any car parking across the road (semi-rural area) gets the binoculars. About six months ago, I found a car across the road watching the house at 4 a.m., so I turned on the lights to silhouette myself and stood in the window with binocs looking at them; they left d@mn fast!

[D25]

When this happens in my neighborhood, I'll usually walk out to the car and take a couple of pictures of the occupants and the license plate. When people ask me what the hell I'm doing, I tell them, truthfully, that ever since there was a meth lab in the neighborhood a couple of years ago, I got in the habit of snapping a couple pics of suspicious vehicles. And if they get pissed or snappy, I tell them that if they want privacy, they will not find it on a public road.

[Roddy]

Originally posted by D25
When this happens in my neighborhood, I'll usually walk out to the car and take a couple of pictures of the occupants and the license plate. When people ask me what the hell I'm doing, I tell them, truthfully, that ever since there was a meth lab in the neighborhood a couple of years ago, I got in the habit of snapping a couple pics of suspicious vehicles. And if they get pissed or snappy, I tell them that if they want privacy, they will not find it on a public road.

That's a good idea. It seems safer than what I've done when soemone seemed suspicious by my house or on the street or whereever. I just wait until someone else is around and then ask them if they have the time or if I'm on the right street. I figure if they're watching me then their cover was just blown.

[RiverVan]

Another thought, Take a picture. Do you have a digital camera? Camera Phone? Covertly or overtly take a picture of the people in the car and the plates. The photo captures the color, & description, including bumper stickers etc. Could get into trouble though; carry a good piece on you.

[hardeyes]

Hello;

Thanks for all the info.

V Creed, I am not Arab, But I am an American.

Hardeyes

[V Creed]

Originally posted by hardeyes
Hello;

Thanks for all the info.

V Creed, I am not Arab, But I am an American.

Hardeyes

That was a joke, hardeyes. ;f

I too like the photo idea. I've worked a lot of stake-outs and only got "made" a few times. But better use a cheap camera, just in case the occupants decide to confiscate it! ;f ;P ;f

[FThorn]

I tell you what I do.

I use my Sony's Night Vision and videotape people. I also have CCTV cameras and time-lapse/real-time recorders hooked up. Motion sensors, computer controlled lights, sprinkler system and so forth.

An intercom to avoid going to the door, too. And the VCR records the intercom's discussions, as well. And it's web-enabled. I can watch my house from anywhere in the world.

And ...GUNS...lotsa guns.

:)

[cl147]

Call the police and report suspicious activity.

[hardeyes]

Hello

I knew that, I just sometimes sound mean.

No harm done, take care,

Hardeyes

[mattburkett]

Never underestimate the uses of a Surefire flashlight. They light up the inside of a car VERY well.

:)

[kels]

Call the cops, I like these calls.
Usually find it to be very innocent.
Every once in a while you get a goody.

Once, when I worked in a rural Kansas county of 2000
people, I got called to a susp person/car
parked in front of MY house. Turned out
it was an insurance man. He wanted to know
why someone had called. I told him that 3 of
the 4 people on the corners were related.
They knew he wasnt related to them. They knew
my wife and I were at work. And they figured
he wasnt related to us. (My family would have
gone to the Sheriff's Office to see where
the heck I was.)
God did I love my nosy neighbors.

[hardeyes]

HELLO;

Thanks for all the info

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No harm done, take care,

Hardeyes..

Worked...

OK GlockTalk members. Excuse me, I'm learning how to 'copy & paste'.

Sorry for the wasted space. This is the last time. Thanks. Hardeyes