A 22 year old man was arrested on Wednesday after breaking into an apartment on March 18 to steal worth of chicken wings and Hot Pockets. People were asleep in the apartment when the man broke in. Police used surveillance videos from the apartment complex to identify the suspect.
Police said one of the stolen frozen food items was found at his home and he was arrested. Police also said he tried 6 other apartments, but they were locked.

This story begs 1 very important question: who has worth of chicken wings and Hot Pockets in their house?

first off, my apartment complex has been the target of several (more than 30) different thefts and vandalism in the past few weeks with no response from the manager and very little from police, I set up surveillance equipment in the cab of my pickup facing out my back window with 14-16 hours of recording time, after a few nights of doing this i caught something tuesday night, i got a very clear and detailed footage of two mexican guys stealing a license plate off a dodge truck, on the video it clearly shows what the guys look like and it clearly shows the license plate of the car they were driving. I e-mailed parts of the video to the sheriffs departments web site, they replied by saying that i was in violation of the law by recording them and that i could in fact be fined and\or arrested for setting up the equipment in my truck…….WHAT THE H E L L !!!!!!…….Is there any thing i can do with this video legally??…..thx…sorry so long.

The fire alarm in my apartment is way too sensitive - all I have to do is boil some water and it goes off. Nobody in my building, myself included, takes it seriously or even pays attention to it because it goes off every other day, plus it’s really getting on my nerves. Is there anything I can do about it to fix it? Do I need to just get a new one, and if so is there anything in particular I should look for? I have a low income, I don’t really want to buy a lot of fire alarms until I find one that works.

I live in an apartment and have an alarm system but what else can I do (other than a weapon, I do have a toddler in the house) to prevent / protect us from burglars?

It wouldn’t be a problem if I lived in a home, because that thing would have been ripped out of the wall ages ago. But, I live in an apartment and it goes off even when water is being boiled with the window open!

I told the maintenance, and they took the bag off of it and told me to turn it off through the fuse box. I did EXACTLY as they told me to, what do I hear as I am frying sausage? BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.

I am at my wits end, what do I do?? They keep coming to inspect it.
I should do it in front of them to show them how ridiculous it is. How the hell does a boiling pot of water produce enough steam to set of a smoke alarm? If that was the case my shower would be setting it off too if it was closer!

Hello!
recently i was looking around for different security solution for my home. i’m looking for a wireless solution because i rent the place. what i would need to to do is basically sms (text) me when someone enters my apartment, siren is optional but not that important, computer easy management would also be nice. all the other bells and whistles are always welcome but basically i just need the sms feature and be able to manage it via computer.
what are the options out there?
Thank you!

I’m house sitting my friends apartment (don’t ask, long story) and the laundry house is spewing water at an alarming rate! I can’t get in touch with my friend and the front desk is closed, and calling 911 seems like it is pushing it?
oh yeah, I am standing in about 3 inches of water.

First before answering, I want to assure you that I am completely sane when I make reference to this story. I have seen a lot of answers to my situation, that continuakky indulge upon my mental well being. For the record, with proof, I am a sane individual. There should be NO ANSWERS ABOUT MY SANITY. My goal is to tell as many people as possible of the injustices that happened at the University of Michigan. Here is my story:

My story begins back in September of 2007. I was going to college where I was viewed as a loner or a person that stayed to himself. What happened next, followed harrassment by my dorm room of college kids my own age(Eventually a guard would be put below my window). I left the college, but it was in regards to a desicion in career opportunities not met while at that college. Three months later(January of 2008), I decided to return(stupid) only to find harrassment and stalking becoming ever more commonplace. In campus I was followed around, made fun of and harrassed. Eventually, things that I would do in my apartment, people would know/repeat what would happen there. In fact everytime I would move in my apartment, a car alarm would go off; deployed by the students that stayed in my building. Eventually it got so bad that there was a protest that happened below my apartment. I decided that I would move to another apartment that was offered by student housing. This was worse, being that this place was bugged, and a man inside a vehicle outside my apartment would yell degrading comments everytime I would move in the apartment. Now through this experience comes a question as to how would you know your apartment was bugged? Well, I would here people talk about my apartment on the street, or hear the exact same songs being played in parties that would play in my apartment. Eventually it got so bad that people outside my apartment would yell I going to kill you!!! as well as kick the apartment wall outside my apartment. It was from this point that I decided to talk to the police. When I talked to them nothing got solved except the harassment being more intensified. Men outside my apartment were yelling degrading comments, students were demanding I "talk to someone" due to my loner behavior, and I began to become an outcast on the college’s campus. Eventually being refered as a weirdo, psychopath and other degrading terms. When I decided to leave to go home, men came oustide my dorm room demanded I stay at the college, and began to make death threats. It got so bad that I could see them outside the window making these threats. That is when I decided to call the cops a second time. When the cops came, they said there was no foot prints outside my window, and requested that I go to the hosptial. While there I see the exact same guys that were there outside my window were there in the hospital(same guys that bugged me). Fearing for my life, I told the doctors that I was hearing voices and was put in a hospital. Thinking that everything would be alright, the people in the hospital said, that you should go back to the college and they began wearing the college’s emblems(From one nightmare to the next). Eventually I got out of the hospital and went home to my parent’s house. When I was there I found the wire’s in my basement messed up, and my house, and phone conversations "bugged". When I would go and walk on the street things that happened in my house, people would know about. In fact joke and talk about the ailments that happened in college. On top of that. While driving on the road, a phone company truck, and/or hospital van would show every single day. To top this off, everytime I move in my own house, a car passes by with a person yelling out that you messed up and/or electrical pulses are sent through my house. On top of that they cause havoc in the world. For example, everytime "I would mess up"(as said by people who yell past my house everyday) I would see problems within my community and the world even though it sounds crazy . Because of my hospitalization, if I bring this information up with my parents, they think I going nuts and think a higher dosage of medication will work……but I am not nuts. For crying outloud I faked the illness to escape that havoc. So my life has been a living hell ever since I decided to go back to that college in January. Since that time, my life has been of harrassment, stalking, and my house and phone calls being bugged. It’s as if there is nothing you can do anything about. I want to mention that most of the people in my home town changed their license plates to the license plates of the college I went to. Plus on top of that each neighbor I would wave hi too, guys in pick up trucks would go to their houses and install bugging equipment within their residences. I witnessed this happening. The last thing I want to add is that now everytime I go past a cell phone, a third party participant yells degrading information over the phone. And everyone in my home town considers me a pychopath for leaving the college. To add further woe, when I left the country to visit a relative, these same things would happen there. The only difference was that when I would "mess up"(as said by the drivers), they would honk their horn. For example, if I would get up too fast, or start moving around a car would beep it’s horn. All these events that occured are real though it sounds crazy. My illness was faked, but my experiences real. The college I went to: the University of Michigan. In terms of who is stalking/harassing me/electronic harassment or who bugged my parents house, cars, and my car: possibly a rogue law enforcement agency.

Hello! I have recently been playing with applescript and have grown to love it! I currently have morning script set which activates at my morning wake up time - It starts an increasing alarm sound, stops, greets me, tells me the time and date, tells me the morning weather, and then begins to read off my calendar events for the day. When it is finished it launches my morning CNN podcast.

I would like to take this to the next level though and set up some home automation, and have the lights turn on, and possibly my drapes pulled back.

Can anyone tell me if there is any hardware and software that is compatible with applescript? Thank you for any information that can be provided.

Future Plans - have a motion detector go off when I enter my apartment, and activate apple script greeting me and turn on the lights.

Not ID theft in the conventional sense, since my net worth is below 0.

Some of my neighbors have been entering my apartment with a key and have stolen at least 50 percent of all my papers. Apart from government tax forms, pay stubs and bills, there are also photographs and one illustration from a book I’d kept since I was 6, that I was looking to frame and display. I’m 50 now, and no longer have it. That probably upsets me most of all.

I’m not worried about identity theft from a credit point of view, but I find it very disturbing that someone would be profiling me in this way. Why would anyone do this?

Even a governing body would produce a warrant and come when I’m home?

I know they want to find anything to get me out so they can give this apt. to their own people… let me say at this point I am very quiet and keep to myself and don’t bother anyone. Yet just for putting my dishes away the other day, the police were called!

I spend my life online… who could I be bothering? I’m into photography and graphic arts, it doesn’t get any more interesting than that!

When I discovered what was going on, which amounts to a continuous exchange of documents back and forth up and down the street, I became terrified to leave my apt. For the last few months, I have only been going out twice a month when I absolutely have to, and come right back within a couple of hours. Even in that short time, they were still coming in. I also believe there is some kind of monitoring going on in here.

I’ve since had an alarm installed, there’s an extra expense I didn’t need, as I am currently unemployed. And, to tell you the truth, I still don’t really feel secure.

Everyone thinks they’re James Bond these days.

I am located in Montreal, Canada. If anyone knows where I can get a free bug sweep, I’d really appreciate it.

I want to sue for harassment, but feel I have to wait until I am formally confronted with something, because the proof I have is not enough yet.

There are too many of them who are in it together, against just me, although I have told everyone I know what is going on and that if some strange thing happens to me, where to look first.

If anyone has any advice… please.

This morning I woke up to the sound of keys turning in my door lock. Then I heard doors opening in my house and footsteps, but by the time I got out of my room I heard the entrance door closing. Then I saw that the lock was broken in two. I notified the police, of course. I just never thought that this could happen to me. I live in an apartment at the 3rd floor in a 6 story building. The entrance door is made of thick wood, and only has one key lock, no other locks. No alarm, no camera. I have a bad feeling that the burglars might return again in a few days. How can I make my home safe from burglars? Please give me all the tips you can think of. Right now I’m trying to convince my parents to buy a metal door with several locks and alarm, but my dad seems carefree and only wants to buy an extra lock rather than change the door. I think it would be worth it though. I’m thinking of buying a pepper spray as well.
Actually, they didn’t use a copy key to break it. They must have used a big instrument because the lock was pulled out of the door and broken in the middle.
opinionatedmedic: I totally agree with you, but try convincing my parents of that lol. They’ve never let me keep a dog in our flat, and believe me I’ve brought puppies here at least 3 times…

The alarm is much to sensitive and I’ve had the truck for 2 days and i have already came out of my apartment complex only to find a police officer calling a tow truck.
please help
thanks,
Kelly

I was thinking to make like a mini dancefloor in the apartment which would require a fog machine. However, there are smoke detectors near the place I want it to be.
So if I put a fog or smoke machine ( I don’t know which one is correct ) in the room, do you think it would start the alarm. I think the machine is producing vapor and not smoke so it shouldn’t, but who knows….

First of all so this makes sense you need to know this, I live in an apartment complex! Me and 2 of my friends were walking back home and we were making fun and laughing at this boy because he’s bisexual and tried to rape a boy and stuff like that. Well the boy used to pretend he pulled the fire alarm but he really didn’t, so my friend imitated him or whatever and just put a tiny touch on the fire alarm PULL HERE panel thing and like 4 seconds later the alarm goes off. We all ran so fast like crazy, we hid in the stairwell, than we came back out and pretended that we didn’t know what was happening and that we just got there. We just waited out there just standing in the balcony or whatever and then like 10 minutes later we hear a firetruck and an ambulance on their way here. We keep calm and than we see like 5 firemen on the bottom floor, so we call the complex security and tell them that it was this boy that might have pulled the fire alarm, so they come to my friend’s apartment and ask him questions and they get all the information they need to find the kid who "did it" and to punish him for what he "did." So than we go inside my friend’s apartment and have a meeting and we all agree to not tell anyone that knows us about that. So we all just sit on my friend’s porch and than we see the FBI on the first and third floors, we were on the third floor and we knew they were FBI because they had their jackets radio comminication thingy and their hat and their guns or whatever. We got scared that they might find out it was us that did the whole thing and we will get in trouble so we just kept calm. Then me and my other friend go on our ways back home to rest. We are all worried about that they might find out it was my friend that did it and we will all get in trouble for lieing to all the emergency services people. What might happen to the boy that "did it" if they do believe that he did it? He is only 13 and we are all 13, what if they find out it was us that did it, will we like get in a lot of trouble for doing that or what? What can we do? I am really scared, I have never done anything this bad or ever lied to emergency services. Me and my other friend are good kids except for my third friend. I am not nameing no one because you might know us or report us. Please tell me what to do.

Well here’s how it goes, and I’ll start from the beginning to give the most detail.

I came home from my classes and boy was I tired.. I hadn’t go much sleep the past two nights and they have been kind of weird. Let me explain quickly why they were weird. The first night my alarm was set for 6:00 am, and its digital. I woke up at EXACTLY 3:00 am. I saw 2:59 turn to 3:00 the second I woke up. No reason, I just awoke at that time. Now the next night I set my alarm for 6:15 since I needed to wake up a little bit later, and that night I woke up at 3:15 am and for no apparent reason.

Anyways, I got home from my classes and took a little nap, from about 4:00 to 7:00. And I thought crap I shouldnt have slept so long. This night I kept my alarm at 6:15 am. and I confirmed it with my girlfriend before she left the apartment. I locked the door, and I was the only one in there this whole week.

I tried to go to sleep around midnight but I just could not. I was awake and alert for each passing moment. My mind was fully awake but my eyes and body were exhausted, though I hadn’t done much.

I think I dozed in and out of a sleep (possibly because of my predisposition to sleep apnea. It seems to run in my family but mine isnt anywhere near bad) I finally opened my eyes at 3:06 and decided I was going to just stop thinking and focus on nothing to help myself go to sleep. Low and behold I apparently fell asleep.

The next morning I expected to be awoken by my alarm at 6:15 but I didn’t wake up until 6:29, and it was just my body that woke up. I was wide awake and felt no exhaustion despite what I believed would happen the night before. I noticed my alarm was still set even though it didn’t go off, and I hadn’t changed it at all from the morning before and it went off the past two mornings. I checked it and it was set for 6:55. This immediately puzzled me, and I figured I could have been sleep walking or something.

I posed my professor this question in class, and he’s my psychology professor. Of course though he just had to be a raving luncatic over his Catholicism and suggests I’m being haunted by a demon/ghost and its trying to mess up my life by sabotaging me…. Well I respect this man as a teacher so I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I’d like to know your perspective views on this, and please back up your opinions with some sort of evidence.

I’m willing to be open-minded towards this religious perspective but I need some idea of why I would be harboring a paranormal entity.
I like the logic you guys have for the situation. And I just want to state this with the talk of stress coming into it, I wasn’t stressed about anything. I played with a Ouija board and it was unnerving afterwards, considering I played with like 3 people whom I trust, but certainly not stressed, and if anything playing with that thing was more of a test for the other side.

Of course if I told my professor this he’d probably call me an exorcist. So Im going to delete this detail after I get answers.

A couple times when I’ve come home things have seemed off. I keep losing things. My apartment is pretty small and I don’t have a lot of stuff, so I am able to check through everything I own fairly easily. I wouldn’t think that somebody had been in my apartment just because of losing things because it’s possible I’ve lost them outside of my apartment, but I’m losing a lot of stuff lately. Also, a several months ago I lost my wallet with a set of keys attached. This morning I noticed it was rather cold in my apartment even though I had the heat on pretty high. Turns out my window wasn’t locked. When its not locked, there is a gap and air comes through. The last time I opened my window was due to setting of the smoke alarms. I know I locked my window then. I’m sure I would have noticed the cold air coming in before now if I hadn’t.

So anyways, I’m just wondering if there is a way to tell if I’m going crazy or if somebody is coming in.

I cannot for the life of me wake up at a decent hour. I am very accustomed to stating up late and sleeping in but I recently started my new job (I work 3:30 till 11:00 p.m.) and I have difficulty going to sleep when I get home and waking up when I want to. I want to go t o sleep at 1 a.m. so I can get 8 hours of sleep and be ready to wake up at 9 a.m. This never happens. I come home from work around 11:30 and I’m full of energy. I pop 2 sleeping pills and I straighten up my apartment, feed my cat, call me friends and mom, wash my face, start watching TV. The pills (over the counter) seem to kick in but they never give me that full I-can’t-keep-my-eyes-open effect. Finally around 3 I get so pissed that I’m 2 hours off schedule that I go to bed….and lay there for about 45 min to an hour. I end up waking up around 12:30. My alarm will start going off at 9 and I will push snooze until 12!! I think the pills make me really drowsey also and I have no energy when I wake to get things done!!
One of the reasons I wanted to wake up early is to work out (I have a tredmil in my apartment) but I read somewhere else that exercising at night makes you stay awake longer! Plus I don’t want to go to sleep covered in sweat! (taking a shower would really wake me up and it would take even longer!) Cant affort a ’sleep specialist’

First of all so this makes sense you need to know this, I live in an apartment complex! Me and 2 of my friends were walking back home and we were making fun and laughing at this boy because he’s bisexual and tried to rape a boy and stuff like that. Well the boy used to pretend he pulled the fire alarm but he really didn’t, so my friend imitated him or whatever and just put a tiny touch on the fire alarm PULL HERE panel thing and like 4 seconds later the alarm goes off. We all ran so fast like crazy, we hid in the stairwell, than we came back out and pretended that we didn’t know what was happening and that we just got there. We just waited out there just standing in the balcony or whatever and then like 10 minutes later we hear a firetruck and an ambulance on their way here. We keep calm and than we see like 5 firemen on the bottom floor, so we call the complex security and tell them that it was this boy that might have pulled the fire alarm, so they come to my friend’s apartment and ask him questions and they get all the information they need to find the kid who "did it" and to punish him for what he "did." So than we go inside my friend’s apartment and have a meeting and we all agree to not tell anyone that knows us about that. So we all just sit on my friend’s porch and than we see the FBI on the first and third floors, we were on the third floor and we knew they were FBI because they had their jackets radio comminication thingy and their hat and their guns or whatever. We got scared that they might find out it was us that did the whole thing and we will get in trouble so we just kept calm. Then me and my other friend go on our ways back home to rest. We are all worried about that they might find out it was my friend that did it and we will all get in trouble for lieing to all the emergency services people. What might happen to the boy that "did it" if they do believe that he did it? He is only 13 and we are all 13, what if they find out it was us that did it, will we like get in a lot of trouble for doing that or what? What can we do? I am really scared, I have never done anything this bad or ever lied to emergency services. Me and my other friend are good kids except for my third friend. I am not nameing no one because you might know us or report us. Please tell me what to do.
Steven F HA!! I used a public computer!

Well he came to see me twice in my apartment. We are not close at all. His grandmother and my aunt are close friends but since both of them are in their senior yrs and are ill - the two of us (the grandson and I) communicate thru text messages and to check how his grandma is and how my aunt is doing. 1st time he came to my place was to sell me insurance and at the same time to tell me about his life story then proceeded to tell me if I needed anything he’ll be more than happy to help even if it was just to talk. 2nd time he came over was to ask me how I was and then he proceeded to tell me more about his life, the way he struggled with it and how he handled everything. He’s very friendly and being too open that it’s alarming - alarming bec he’s got a wife and kids and that 2nd time he visited me was after he got out from work and his visit lasted ’til 10pm. Am I just being paranoid?
I just remembered his wife works the graveyard shift while he works during the day time. He also mentioned that he is more of a risk taker while his wife is the opposite. The 1st time he told me he was coming to see me I told him I could meet him at the mall then he said he’d just go straight to my apartment. If he asks to visit the 3rd time I’ll tell him to meet me at the mall or somewhere where it won’t be just the two of us.

but the water pipe busted in my apartment and the water is leaking on it do this mean there is carbon menoxide in my house
and i smell gas