The private surveillance state helps catch a red-light runner and hit-and-run menace in Aberdeen:
Aberdeen police have recovered the vehicle involved in a hit-and-run crash that sent a boy to the hospital. Officials confirmed a suspect is now in custody and is expected to be charged with hit-and-run resulting in injury, which is a felony.
Security video from a nearby business shows the pickup truck traveling eastbound and entering the intersection of 6th Avenue Southeast and State Street. This was Friday evening at about 8:30.
The light is yellow and turns red just as the truck enters the intersection. The truck hit two boys on their bicycles in the crosswalk. The pick-up was motionless for about 12 seconds, and then the driver took off, leaving the two boys behind [Tom Hanson, “Aberdeen Police Take Suspect into Custody for Injury Hit-and-Run,” KELO-TV, 2023.09.26].
12 seconds? Hey, that wasn’t Jason Ravnsborg behind the wheel, was it?
“Fortunately, in this day and age, there is a camera on most businesses on most intersections, so that is a very useful helpful source for us, and we work it backward from there,” said [Aberdeen Police Sgt. Brad] Jung [Hanson, 2023.09.26].
Hit and run or other public mischief? Don’t even try it. If you’re doing it in public, it’s probably on video, and Big Brother doesn’t even have to spring for the cameras.
My personal security cameras have caught a pop bottle bomber, a hit and run driver who destroyed a neighbors cars while severely injuring her, my neighbor regularly peeing in my yard plus a city official going through my garbage during a neighborhood clean-up. The police have even called me to ask if the cameras might have caught other incidents in my “quiet” suburban type neighborhood. Be careful of where you are and what you do, because you never know who catches you on candid camera.
Why is your neighbor marking his territory on your territory? Asking for a friend
My cameras only point towards my doors. I was able to recognize the bum who stole my drill. Chased him down and shook him up. I got it back. I was able to scare off creeps a dozen times through the intercom, while using a voice changer. Although, I have accidentally threatened the pizza delivery boy in a scary alien voice a couple times because I sparked the owl and forgot I ordered any pizza:/ My bad. I have watched would-be thieves spot my camera and turn right around. I have posted the face of the pos who broke in while I was gone and stole my agates. Less than 10 minutes on Craigslist and I got a name. He wisened up and returned them. My cameras have allowed me to be independent and feel somewhat safe in my home where last week a gruesome murder occurred in my alleyway and another one across the street within 24 hours. I also have a video of a 300 pounder bandito getting violent and throwing my flower pot and me across my lawn. He ran straight to the sheriff to tell on me that I beat him up. Damn right I did. Oh how we laughed watching that video while he was cuffed with a flattened, bloody snout. Stuff gets hairy around here and I don’t like to watch the motion recordings alone. Even though the images are from the past, watching the chaos that took place on my porch, sometimes while I was asleep, is terrifying. Oh! Except for when my squirrel, Fat Boy fancies himself in the lens’ reflection. He knows he looks fabulous. It is hilarious.
I recommend the setup I have because it doesn’t require a monthly subscription or a separate dvr recording device or wired closed circuit tv and wifi is optional to hook your phone up to it. I got it from Harbor Freight. It is a Cobra and comes with two outdoor cameras with intercom, night vision and motion detection that use an antenna to connect with the little screen you keep inside. It uses a sd card to hold all the recordings, to watch both cameras live and to use to talk and communicate through. You just watch it right there all in that little screen. Buy once and that’s it. I’ve had it for probably 5 years and only had to format the sd card once. It has saved me a ton of hurt so that’s why I’m sharing so much. I bartered for it so not sure what it cost. Around an oz of Shark Breath..
Well, who amongst you hasn’t peed in a neighbor’s yard, knowingly or unknowingly? Regardless, grudznick is curious if the fellow might end up being Mr. Novstrup, the younger. It is widely suspected that the Brothers Novstrup regularly scoff at the local traffic laws.
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You an agate hound, Ms. Mammal?
Don’t have one. Live in a small town.
Mr. bruce, say tell…what might the city official have been looking for dirt on? Are you a local scoundrel of some sort? Tax scofflaw? Roman Catholic?
You betcha, Mr. G. Have you done any prospecting around your bunker?
Everyone loves neato rocks, Ms. Mammal, even grudznick. I have some that I keep safe.
Arlo – I have three – Live in a small town. You must not have any have any opinions that have differed from your neighbors. Cameras are needed here. Facial recognition software included. Rural crime is higher per capita to urban crime – you know.
In a twist, the driver Aberdeen PD arrested says he was rushing to the hospital to see his seriously ill newborn, who was subsequently flown to Sioux Falls for care
Mr. Schriever, grudznick understood Mr. Blundt to refer to the thumping his small town neighbors will put in any miscreants.
@Richard – Rural crime is not higher t he an urban crime. The last time you asserted this falsehood I posted an article that disputed your claim. You must have missed it.
– In 2021, crime victimization rates were higher in urban than rural areas. In urban settings, 24.5 out of 1,000 people aged 12 or older reported being the victims of violent crimes, and 157.5 reported being the victims of property crimes. In rural settings, those figures were 11.1 and 57.7, respectively.3 days ago
https://usafacts.org › articles › wher…
Where are crime victimization rates higher: urban or rural areas? – USAFacts
Cory, matters little why the driver committed the hit and run. The drivers hit changed everything in an instant, including the infants emergency.
One has a plausible case to violate a law in an emergency . . . but when that violation inflicts harm upon another, foreseeable harm, the calculus changes. The driver ‘assumed the risk’.
The father of the infant is not helping the infant or the infants mother by being charged with a felony.
Let us hope that mercy showers on all parties; yet on its face the law is stark.
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Segue: auto insurance rates are up almost 18% across the US in one year. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/car-insurance-rates-up-17-for-the-first-half-of-2023-454140.aspx US drivers drive like maniacs. In and out of lanes, in and out of construction zones.
US highway fatalities are up, despite the earlier pandemic. US drivers do not know how to drive. US civil engineers doe not know how to build safe highways, and do not know how or won’t make construction zones safe by emplacing temporary concrete barriers, US cars are over powered and too large, US lawmakers are clueless as to how to adopt laws here that reduce accidents (including the insane motorcycle helmetless laws), and highway deaths in other nations. And too often the troopers are lax to enforce when and where it matters – being over matched by the shear numbers of miscreants.
I’ve 10+ years driving the autobahn, that included a 2 year, 65 mile commute without a speed limit. There are times, places, laws, mechanical and highway conditions, for such — but those are not in the US.
Grudznick-No, I mean I know the people in the neighborhood and we look out for each other…in my lifetime, I’ve made one police call, actually I walked down the block and knocked on the Constable’s door, when a drunk driver hit a tree in my backyard and took off afoot.