This byline was sent to me by a friend. It’s a stark reminder for me as the perpetrators in our neighborhood incursion were discovered and arrested in Orting!
Category Archives: Neighborhood Events
Bear Stuff — Again!
Below are comments from Washington Fish and Wildlife. Please check out the PDF mentioned as it has a lot of good information on Black Bears. Here are some of the pictures from my cameras.
It will be important that the neighborhood tries to keep as many attractants secured as possible.. Even if only one house has something available the bear will come to your area.. You can send out the PDF on our website here: http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/bear.pdf that tells you what they are most attracted too. Fruit trees are some of their favorite things.. but garbage is by far the biggest attractant.
Camera Systems and Recommendations
Below is a link to Camera System Recommendations by Dav Eide, one of the mainstays of our Neighborhood Camera Project.
Surveillance Catches Suspect Trying To Kick In Homeowner’s Door
Recently King 5 News ran a clip of a suspect attempting to kick in a homeowner’s door. The resulting pictures of the suspect should guarantee his capture and conviction.
This is a great point for why CCTV systems help keep you and your neighbors safe.
Please watch this great video:
Smash and Grab
On Thursday (10 March 2016) at approximately 0430hrs someone broke into cars parked at 11809 136th Ave E. When the homeowners were looking at the damage they found mail from their neighbors in their driveway, indicating that someone may have been stealing mail. If anyone has further information on this break-in they can e-mail kahalljr@comcast.net and also call 253-840-0411 if it is urgent.
Break IN
Last Monday (3 March 2016) sometime between 0730 – 1200hrs. , a burglar used a crowbar to get into the front door of 12310 133rd Ave E. in the Timber Ridge complex which is on the west side of 133rd Ave E. Jewelry and other items were stolen. A blue pickup was reported spotted in the area when the break-in occurred. If anyone has further information on this break-in they can e-mail kahalljr@comcast.net and also call 253-840-0411 if it is urgent.
SunRise Terrace Snapshot Repository
2016 Fact Sheet about our camera snapshot repository:
- This project (and it’s servers) has been active since 2012
- The new server currently holds snapshots for 6 cameras
- Over 8 million (8,108,591) snapshots are held 1 Terabytes
- In Jan 2016 the FTP service processed 65 GB of snapshots
- In Jan 2016 the WEB service processed 84 MB BLOG visits
New SunRiseTerrace.org domain name for our neighborhood
Thanks to the efforts and past actions of members of the Sun Rise Terrace HOA, the SunRise Terrace Snapshot repository, Web Site, and BLOG pages are migrating to a new and more appropriate domain name.
On our about March 15th the current domain name at id-systems.us will be discontinued and the already active domain name of sunriseterrace.org will continue to be domain name used to access our neighborhood Internet services.
If you have saved the SunRise Terrace server IP Address of 67.40.184.198 in your browser the same IP Address will continue to work. Currently, we have no plans to expand or augment existing domain services. As such the IP Address will continue to appear in your browser regardless of how you access our neighborhood services. This URL resource behavior is normal on the site today and will continue.
Thank you.
Woman Seen Prancing Away After Stealing Package With Birthday Gift In South Bay
Below is a link to a story of a package theft in the San Francisco area. It shows the thief strolling up to the door of a house and stealing a package, then happily prancing (there is no other word that more accurately describes it) away. Then she is seen crossing the street to steal yet another package from a neighbor. The prancing thief’s haul from the first house was a birthday gift for a 4 year old girl.
The thief’s picture is fairly clear, but if the homeowner had better cameras it would have been easier to identify her. Additionally, it appears that she might be putting the stolen packages in a car parked at the curb. If neighbors also had high quality video cameras, it is quite possible that the woman’s license plate would have been captured.
These days the police depend more and more on video captured by nearby cameras to solve crimes. We hope the package thief in the video gets a knock on the door and a nice shiny set of handcuffs to go with her outfit. Neighbors are sharing the video on social media in hopes that someone recognizes the suspect.
The Bear Revealed!
A picture of a Bear in the vicinity of 144th in Orting Valley.
sGraphic provided by courtesy our intrepid neighbor Alan!