But how do you figure out ? Everything tend to glitter now a days.
The society that we live in, is a descent society with most of the people being educated and everyone shows up to be very nice, even though they are not in reality and the most difficult part of this is, how do you prove that ? They glitter like gold, speaking nice words on face, appearing to be very polite, gentle but once they see an opportunity for some personal benefit, they take advantage of that, without bothering about how that would hurt others.
So to show them what they pretend to be but actually not in reality, I fitted this CCTV at my own cost, to catch people who would take flowers from my plant, that I grow with lot of care, like a child.
Finally the day came, when someone did the mischief and even left the evidence - a broken big branch, after taking flowers. Looking at CCTV footage is not an easy job, you will have to spend considerable amount of time to first find out the time and then zoom in to collect evidence. It almost took 5 hours to do this - more than half a day job.
She manged to be careful to not show her face on my camera, but we have cameras all around, so after finding the time, I looked upon other cameras and capture few images.
Surprisingly none of our staff recognized her, so I posted her photo in our whatsapp group asking her identity and that is when things went west. Some people argued, this violates personal privacy, even though she did the wrong thing, some came in my support as they have seen my hard work. But why would you steal the reward of someone else's hard work ? Just because you see an opportunity and think only about yourself ?
I tried to revive that branch and gathered courage to not listen to anyone and decided to confront her. Since I even did not know her, so I had to again find on other cameras to see which house she went to, and then walked to her door. The most interesting part of this real event was she out-rightly refused doing the misdeed, not knowing that she was captured on CCTV.
For a moment I was speechless, how do you react to such situations ? Then I politely told her that I have CCTV footage of what she did, her reactions instantly changed - I did not know that there is a CCTV, else I would not have done this....I have come recently to my daughter's house.
But did you ask anyone ? Come on, that means, it's not your real behavior, you would not hesitate to do the same thing again, if the CCTV is removed, isn't it ?
No, I won't do this again.....I preferred to not extend the conversation, as it's really bad to hurt a woman. Coming back I was thinking, how can people do this ? Me and my wife can't even use our own stuff, without asking, if we feel the situation requires that. She is very innocent, and many of her friends take advantage of that which has resulted in her having very limited friends now.
I did inform in the group that I have identified the lady and that caught fire - many wanted the CCTV to be removed, but thankfully there are few good people who are with me. People always try to glitter like gold, but truth always prevails, it may take some time. Coming Winter, I am going to put a board - YOU ARE ON CCTV - now you decide how to maintain your privacy!!
Interestingly, after all this someone close to us told she knew the lady but did not have the courage to tell. It's an interesting world we live in - gold will always glitter without advertising.
This post is in response to the Creative Nonfiction Prompt #143.
Note - Face of the lady has been blurred to maintain her privacy...this post is only intended to showcase the reality, not a person.
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That was very bad of her. She didn't even care about the sacrifices made by the owner to plant and nuture those flowers and she stepped it take what dies not belong to her.
If you decide to take necessary actions now to sue her, she will tag you as wicked forgetting what she did was terrible.
Imagine how some people were even in defence of her that Posting her pic violate privacy. Why did she stepped beyond her own boundaries and take what doesn't belong to her? Does that nor violent the law too? And how then do we intend to catch her if her pictures were not shared?
Putting "YOU ARE ON CCTV" is a good idea but there are those who will find a way to evade that upon seeing the sign board.
There will be always a way to evade and even its not practical to spend time to check the CCTV, but at least it reduces such incidences by 80%.
Yeah, you are right. And since you can be there (in the garden) 24/7 securing your flowers, CCTV is a good way to keep an eye on it or checkmate what has happened.
I read your blog and felt really bad about what happened with you. When we grow plants, I know how much time and emotion we put into them. We take care of them for days and weeks, and only after a long wait, when the season comes, we finally get to see the flowers . In such a moment, if someone comes and takes them away, it really hurts.
I remember there’s a mango tree at my grandfather’s house, and during the season, it grows a lot of mangoes. It’s a big tree and produces so many mangoes that even after the whole family eats and we give some to relatives, a lot of them are still left.
At that time, many people from outside come and throw stones to drop the mangoes and take them. My grandfather never liked that because it took a lot of time and care to grow that tree. Now, it grows naturally and doesn’t need much care, but when it was small, he looked after it for years.
Whether it’s years of hard work or just one day, effort is still effort. So when I read what happened in your case, I could understand why you felt bad. And what made it worse was when you confronted the lady and she didn’t accept her mistake. She only admitted it when you said you had CCTV footage. That’s even more disappointing.
The good thing is that, you have set an example and hopefully incidents like that will at least reduce for sometime in your Society.
Thank You
Yes, now people are scared, fearing that I will come to their door, if they do the mistake. It has to be that way unfortunately.
Wow, that is quite the story. Cameras are becoming pretty prominent everywhere these days. I don't think people realize just how much footage their is of them. I'm glad you found some kind of closure to the matter. Hopefully it will keep people from doing things in the future.
Yes, for sure, everyone now knows, that they are being captured and I would come after them :)
That's really bad, the woman wasn't really remorseful she only admitted because of the cctv and would have done the same thing if she wasn't caught. It's so sad that people only think about themselves and don't care about others.
I hate when people do this, steal your own flowers or vegetables without asking
You have done well!
I remember when had a tomato plant, tomatoes were literally huge, must have been 1 kg tomato, and then someone in the night from the fence stole it! That was pissing off
Ya, it hurts a lot.
I agree about this. Some people may seem like gold but they're really fake gold. They will take you for granted eventually.
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If not with the help of cctv she would have denied her wrong. Is because the whole world saw was she did. That alone, was the only reason. why she said the truth. It is indeed very nad to see a full grown human stealing and destroying things , it is so embarrassing. Taking things without permission. I wonder why she did that.
That's horrible of her...
Literally reaping where you didn't sow...
I wonder why she did that. Why did she steal plants? Can’t she plant hers? It’s weird and I’m glad you installed the CCTV camera to catch the culprit
The truth is that it is incredible when we can be very honest and tremendously good people but we almost never think about the sacrifice of others but rather about our personal benefit. That is something we must change to improve as a society.
That would be another option to inform that there are security cameras in that area and people will know if they enter through the flowers in the garden or if they don't, but knowing that there are cameras, they surely won't do it, but well, everyone thinks they are doing the best without knowing that they are harming someone else's work.
That's the question: how to discover people with their true intentions towards us or in general, surely, what a good friend and put your closed-circuit cameras so that these abuses against your garden do not continue to occur at the same time that they learn to respect what belongs to others.
That’s sad and annoying
Why will someone especially an old woman decide to steal a plant? It’s really awkward and embarrassing…
Incidents like this often happen. I even have a niece who works in a shop who often complains about theft of beauty tools even though there is CCTV. And the saddest thing is that almost all the perpetrators of theft are women.
Hello dear friend @sanjeevm, how are you?
What you say is very true. There are some people who pretend to be something they're not, but it always comes to light when those who act inappropriately.
It's great that you installed a camera to monitor the plants you work so hard to grow into beautiful flowers.
This woman's attitude is incredible. She even denies what she's done. It's the last straw.
I honestly don't understand people who act this way sometimes.
Have a great day.
Hello Mr. @sanjeevm
I'm so sorry you went to such lengths to buy a surveillance camera to monitor your garden.
What a shame what happened to this woman. It's unbelievable. She even tried to deny what happened.
Seriously...it really hurts when someone steals our flowers and veggies without permission...
Flowers and fruits have been stolen from my garden several times. I told my wife about it. Let's forgive these people because they don't know what they're doing. They're ruining their own future lives.
yea.. that's was not cool of her at all! I doubt she even felt bad afterwards. Good on u for ur bit of detective/security work. 😉
No other way to deal with this ,they will do wrong and they want proof :)
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Too bad, some people there taking her side. What she did is a violation, I don't think violation of privacy can be used against you. That woman shouldn't use the gender card as well.
I am sorry to say tha people now a days just dont care about others, they are just mean. They hurt us whenever get a chance.