Dan Standage's security cameras caught a burglar poking around his home.
Posted on 10/27/2006 10:36:50 PM PDT by SandRat
"I'm just a regular guy- an ‘Average Joe' trying to get along in life and I don't want anybody taking my stuff or my kids stuff for that matter." A Tucson burglar made a bad career move... when he broke into the home of a Tucson security specialist... with cameras rigged up all over his house.
Dan Standage is legally blind, and when he's away... his security cameras keep an eye on the home front.
His vigilance paid off this week... when his cameras clearly caught a burglar poking around his home.
The video speaks for itself. It shows a crook walking into a home... putting his hands on the table and pulling a "Sony Playstation" out from underneath the television.
"It was like, 'Wow- somebody actually broke into my house,' and we get to see what the guy looked like," says Standage.
He and his family panicked when they came home Wednesday and noticed the back door wide open. Someone had been in their home.
Standage is legally blind. This camera is one of five that catch what his eyes miss.
He told News 4, "Me, my life's a big mystery. I walk around and I don't see a lot of things and so it's nice to have a device that I can sit and review and try to figure out what happened."
The camera set up in the living room caught the crook touching everything. The cops took fingerprints.
Just like the crime shows... the Standage's see on TV... cops were collecting evidence in their house.
Police also watched video of the crook in action.
Standage... a former Marine... says the robber messed with the wrong family.
"It may not have caught his face- but it caught his fingerprints."
Standage has three kids. All of them have a computer of their own.
What does 8-year-old, Eric hope happens to the guy that stole his game...?
"I'm pretty sure he's going to be caught and put in jail...stolen property is a very serious thing."
Standage says the crook looks as if he's about 14-years-old. He's asking anyone who might recognize him, to call police.
"It kind of stirs you up a little bit. I'm not going to lie; I'm a big tough Marine... but this kind of gets under my skin."
Dan Standage's security cameras caught a burglar poking around his home.
I truly hate to hear about anyone being violated this way. My home was hit by a scumbag a number of years ago and I still get the heebie jeebies when I think of it.
I now own a company that manufactures/sells digital video recording surveillance systems and have 4 covert and 2 overt cameras throughout my home. I also have warning signs posted alerting would-be thieves of such. However, I haven't been hit again (thank goodness!).
Mr. Standage is lucky he had his camera system as, in my experience, the police probably wouldn't have done much without those video recordings.
They had the same kind of idiot here in Queens New York last week....He ordered Chinese food and gave an address of a building that had about 3 security cameras in the lobby. So when the delivery guy came, this idiot stabs the guy and takes his money while these cameras got like a zillion pics of it. They printed the pics in the paper the next day, and the dude was so freggin` pwned he turned himself in.
Funny they don't give any info about the perp.
I guess that is not done anymore.
Especially when the perp is a ***** ****.
The sad fact is that the criminal has a very good chance of only having his hands spanked and within a few months, be out of jail looting again...if convicted.
This security whiz should have had some type of device to simply dispatch the criminal when he came into the house...thereby saving the taxpayers money and preventing future crimes by this thug.
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