What's preventing someone from just frying their optical sensor with a laser pointer before doing up close surveillance?
This is really dependent on the camera in use and its optical sensor. Most aren't immediately fried by them, though some stunning of the sensor can take place. The effect usually stops fairly rapidly after the laser pointer is deactivated, though.
I bet you could even enter his room with very basic lockpicking and nobody would care.
@Zeus Blue Thunder: I realise that this was a thought exercise, not a serious suggestion that someone go do it. Therefore, the following is not directed at you:
This is a really bad idea and under no circumstances should anyone attempt it. Big Island (which makes Ruckersville look like New York City by comparison) has no local police department, and the
Bedford County Sheriff's Office handles law enforcement in the area. With response times to a reported crime likely to be measured in tens of minutes on a good day, the locals tend to not wait for their arrival if the circumstances warrant it. The Sheriffs in that part of the world also don't put up with any shit once they do get there, so from an arrestee's point of view they may not necessarily be a better option if the locals have been imparting lessons in deportment prior to law enforcement's arrival.
In other words, the general advice of Don't Fuck Around In Small Towns very much applies here. If you choose to ignore it and get the living shit kicked out of you, arrested, and/or shot, tough. You deserve it for being a fucking retard.
I wouldn't bet my freedom on the house interior not having a security alarm or nanny cams. Don't do it.
Frankly, the place feels like a honeypot. Yeah, Chris ostensibly lives there, but between the poor accessibility, lousy vantage points, cameras, and location on the main road through town, it's almost as though it was chosen because of its shit opportunities for observation. By no means am I implying that Caden was enough of a criminal mastermind to think the house purchase through to that extent, but being there in person really puts some things in perspective that aren't necessarily 100% evident from Google Maps.
