Neighbors complain about woman's 5am runs

suburban people are hilarious

I think this is the story...

Her 5 AM Morning Runs Bothers a Neighbor

What kind of neighborhoods do you live in if this is necessary?

Feels like another planet.

From the original Reddit post:

100% love her dedication. Keep going sister <3

Just adjust the sensitivity and don't tell your wife or tell her the software updated or some such.

If you need these kind of alerts/warning lights then something is wrong with your community.

Thanks for posting this. It's a 4-year-old post on Reddit! I scrolled down to read the comments and someone eventually posted exactly what I was thinking.

"Next Door is toxic."

In a way, it's a lot like LetsRun.

America is blessed to have such first world problems.

It's bizarre how so many people in society make a big deal about our personal freedoms, yet try to dictate how others behave in public places. During Covid, in Québec we had a curfew from 10pm to 5am for a period of time and lots of people were really pissed about it. Then you hear a story like this in which people are basically trying to impose a curfew based on what they consider reasonable hours to be out and about. What if you were to work until 3am and wanted to walk home at that hour? Those people are selfish little babies.

Where are all the neighborhood kids? If the neighborhood in which I grew up had all these sensitive lights and alarms, we would have been running around setting off lights and alarms all the time.

Good point

Could home owners associations institute neighborhood-wide curfews? I could see something like this going there.

Translation: my hyperbolic fear of any and everything in the outside world warrants me in shutting down my entire neighborhood all night to keep me feeling safe.

The whole ring/doorbell/security camera thing fascinates me. I don't get it - at all. Oh, and if you live in a neighborhood where a woman feels safe running alone in the dark, you probably don't need to go crazy with the security lights and cameras.

I feel bad for your wife.

I too run very early to beat the traffic and heat. Sometimes I run laps for speedwork around the neighborhood, since they fenced off the tracks during Covid. In one yard a (fenced) dog chases me every time I come around and barks really loud. Not my fault or my problem that the owners keep the dog outside. I'm on public property and can come and go as I please.

There's a street I run on often with a house with motion-sensored lights. I am always on the street, never the driveway or yard, and when passing by, the lights turn on and a robotic voice says "You are being recorded." Super strange.