I purchased another security cam which is going to face the back shed area. Unfortunately I can't actually find a position for it to watch over the back road gate/fence and the shed at the same time, so I settled for just a view of the fence. Maybe when my 3 stolen phones eventually get replaced, I could look at setting them up around the other sides of the house, just to keep an eye on everything. That was the original plan, anyway.
But this morning I noticed the paint cans keeping the shed door closed had been moved again. This time there's no doubt in my mind that it was not the wind, although I don't quite feel certain it was the other kid yet. I mean, logically, that's pretty much the only person it could be, but why? What would he get from moving paint cans and opening the shed door? It's just an odd thing to do. There's not even anything in the shed anymore, because he stole all the old equipment and such that we had in there. Here's a rather shitty MS paint drawing of what I mean:
I don't think it's possible for the wind to do that.
Yep. The laundry window faces the shed, although unfortunately not the side gate. I've mounted the camera on top of the washing machine which had a decent vantage point
Tonight I put one of our wooden outdoor benches next to it. it's fairly light, so i'd suppose they would still move it if they wanted to. We do actually have an auto sensor light, but theres a spider living in there which sets it off every couple of minutes, and my new camera is good in low light or regular light, but takes a solid 20 sec to adjust between sudden light changes, so I decided to just flip the light switch a few times which makes it stay on until turned off again
Edit: I realised I needed to text the cameras motion detection thingy, so I went outside and put the paint cans back. To be honest, I want whoever's moving it to do it again tonight so I can get them on camera and know for sure who/what/when it's happening. Or if by some almost miracle it is the wind or some sort of wild animal, I want to know so my mind can be put back at rest. I don't want whatever's causing it to get spooked and leave it alone. I confirmed the camera's motion detection works fine as well.
I don't have talc, and I actually think he stole my flour (along with pretty much all my spices) before I left, but if I have some I might. Won't the rain kind of ruin it though?