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.
Pull out your phone, point it at their windows, and yell back, “so are you”.
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.
I have this happen too. In my case, the dog is fenced in by an invisible fence. It never fails to chase me to the corners of its invisible fence area as I run by on the street.
These neighborhood pages are like fly paper for retired people with excess time and anger issues.
There's a guy that goes on mine almost everyday raging about "some dog" that keeps pooping on his yard. He put up a sign, "Do not let your dog poop on my yard!" Lol
You should have seen him explode when I told him the sign is worthless unless he reprints it in fox-speak, since I see a fox in his yard almost every day I run.
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.
The same idiots on NextDoor are also on Reddit. And here. It’s all the same people. Not sure why idiots on Reddit think they’re special for using a web site used by millions of people.
Also this story is probably fake, like everything else on Reddit.
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 moved to Ben True's childhood town (aka North Yarmouth, ME) two years ago. The new neighbors constantly emphasized how safe it is here. And yet they all have two to four floodlights on all night, strong enough to merit blackout shades in a few of our rooms.
How bout this.... it's not really the security lights, it's the far more widespread irritation of relentless loud chattering on 5am runs. Wakes people up in hoods with houses close together - it echoes around.
People set up a device to wake them up anytime something moves at 5am, then are enraged when they are woken up at 5am anytime something moves. My neighborhood is full us people like this. Hilarious.
Not so funny when you are married to one. My wife’s exact words: “Why should we have to change our camera motion detection settings? She should not be running at that hour”
Oh I don’t know, maybe because we are the ones with the stupid unnecessary cameras that make alert noise if a Damn pin drops!
Good luck - you’re going to need it with a wife like that.
Even if this particular story isn't true, this same situation has definitely played out in other neighborhoods.
Over the years, I've had people get mad at ME, when their dog chases or barks at me. A good number of people out there are straight up ridiculous about this kind of thing.
If she is running past on the street or sidewalk they need to reconfigure their lights. You have to be about half way up our driveway before our motion lights come on.
If for some reason she is cutting a ross private property she needs to stop.
I tried cut/paste the article, but the letsrun site does not comply.
Basically the article claims that she is "disturbing the neighbors and causing havoc.."
Personally, I have run at 4AM, 5AM, for years, not anymore. But never heard anything.
I constantly run by the same house (on the sidewalk) and setting off their barking dog. Which one of us is disturbing the peace? Remember, HE STARTED IT.
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.
See now, I would eventually get tempted to stop one time on a run, hang out right there in the street, and either mug for the camera for a few minutes just to see what happens or break out into some absurd song/dance routine. Breakdancing's going to be in the 2024 Summer Games...
This was a big fight in my household about a year ago. We have cameras that alert us and they kept going off at 3-4:00am. My wife was pissed that a female runner was disturbing her sleep running on the sidewalk at that hour. I suggested that we decrease the sensitivity to stop the false alarms. But that is too logical and easy and women are creatures governed by emotion. She felt the neighborhood needed to “do something” to stop this.
I am a runner and my wife is not.
Fortunately this runner must have changed her route voluntarily. I thought my wife’s opinion bordered on batsh!t crazy. People can run at whatever hour they want.
I've had to run this early on some days in order to accomodate for all-day trips to and from my orthopaedist (whose office is a few counties away from me), and the only lights that were on (besides my light-up vest and head lamp) were street lights and the occasional passing car.
This right here. It's 6:04 a.m. and I've already gotten up, gone for a walk, eaten breakfast, ran to the store to pick up a few things, and am now settling into my morning.
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