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pete611107@yahoo.com - 09 May 2008 11:55 GMT

I'd be very grateful for some advice here.

I'm living in a neighbourhood where I'm being targeted by antisocial
teenagers, who harass and threaten me.

They are relying on the fact that I don't know their names or where
they live, and the fact that there never seems to be anyone around I
can't point them out to, and say "do you know who these people are?"
The police are no use either: they turn up days after I've reported an
incident.

And so I've decided to try to get some photos of these people, so that
at least I can have a chance of identifying them, should one
eventually assault me (which seems likely).

The trouble is, if I do this, they'll probably just snatch the camera
from me.

Which brings me to my question: is there a cellphone on the market
that you can program so that AS SOON as you've taken a photo, it's
transmitted to somewhere remote, like your email address, or something
else you've set up on the Web? So that even if an attacker got your
phone, he wouldn't get the photo?

It would have to be a 'one-touch' thing: just press one button, and
it's all done for you.

I ask this because if I did get the chance to take a photo of these
people, they might not give me enough time to go through menus, or
anything like that - they'd just take my phone from me.

I'd be very grateful for any advice on this.

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Larry - 09 May 2008 16:08 GMT

pete611107@yahoo.com wrote in news:9db86a4e-502f-4bbc-baeb-9eb8274b0db8
@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

> I'd be very grateful for some advice here.

The sellphone camera will simply make them angry enough to maim you.

If you are against defending yourself, I suggest you hire a private
detective to find out who they are and where they live. The PI knows
ever cop on the force because he either is or was one of them. He's
worth his weigh in gold if you get hurt. Hire the most imposing PI you
can find. It won't take him long to find them and impress upon them you
don't wish to ever see them, again. If they are black youths, hire a
black PI. If they are white youths, hire a black PI, anyways. When he
has found who they are and where they live, let HIM talk to his cop
buddies and that gets ACTION, all you wanted in the first place. If you
get hurt, the PI will easily get them convicted just by being there with
the hard evidence the cops are unwilling to collect.

Talk to your attorney. If you don't have an attorney, find one. They
are also a great source of real advice and can get cop action where there
is poor service. For $25, an attorney will produce a letter to the local
police chief informing him of your problem on his law firm letterhead and
that he is representing you in this case, something that cop doesn't want
anything to do with screwing up as it can create big trouble for him.
Politicians, the cop's boss, are attornies. An attorney will talk to you
for free the first visit. Ask him.

Put this 'I can do it myself' nonsense out of your head. You could be
killed or maimed by these thugs. If the thugs, or their parents, have
any property or money...and lots of them do...your attorney can go after
that in a civil action. Daddy will sh.t his pants if his boy's bullying
is going to cost him his house. See the point?

Yeah, it's going to cost you money. But, what's getting your life back
worth? You CAN actually go after every penny it costs you to stop them
from bullying you. Your attorney can settle up with Daddy to pay these
fees, rather than dragging him through the courts costing him lots more.
I'm sorry your sorry assed police department isn't doing its job for
you....

"Bully me.....MAKE MY DAY".....(c;

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pete611107@yahoo.com - 13 May 2008 11:32 GMT

> pete611...@yahoo.com wrote in news:9db86a4e-502f-4bbc-baeb-9eb8274b0db8
> @s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
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>
> "Bully me.....MAKE MY DAY".....(c;

Larry, thank you so much for this very painstaking and detailed reply.

Unfortunately (and I feel bad about wasting your time by not making it
clear in my original post), probably none of your advice applies, as I
live in England.

Over here in England, antisocial teenagers have FAR more rights than
law-abiding citizens.

Over here, if you're harassed by a teenager, all you're allowed to do
is call the police. The police will arrive the next day at the
EARLIEST, that's if they come at all, then they'll ask for a
description (which will be no use at all, since few people are so
distinctive-looking that you can pick them out from somebody's
description), and that's probably the last you'll hear from them.

Last year, I was so exasperated at teenagers following me around and
harassing me that I got a compact camera and took some pics.

The police used those pics to identify the culprits - and this was the
ONLY way they were able to do this - then they warned me never to take
photos of teenagers again!

I should add that after months of getting these teenagers identified,
all they got was 'antisocial behaviour letters' - letters telling them
they'd be in trouble if they did it again.

And PI's aren't an option - over here, private detectives mainly trace
debtors, missing persons, etc.

But thanks for taking the trouble to advise me.

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Larry - 13 May 2008 22:10 GMT

pete611107@yahoo.com wrote in news:adec5975-eb8c-4400-bf12-
8e8cfdcccc5b@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

> Over here in England, antisocial teenagers have FAR more rights than
> law-abiding citizens.

Oh, sorry. I didn't know from the yahoo address.

I was under the impression you would hire some thugs that looked remarkably
like Bob Hoskins, one of my favorite actors, who would simply beat the sh.t
out of them so the word would get around you were not to be fooled with.

It always works in the bloody, violent English gangster movies where those
kids get these ideas in the first place....

Ah, I know! AUNTIE WAINWRIGHT! She'd beat 'em to a pulp and stuff them
into some junk in her junk shoppe....(c;

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danny burstein - 09 May 2008 16:15 GMT

>Which brings me to my question: is there a cellphone on the market
>that you can program so that AS SOON as you've taken a photo, it's
>transmitted to somewhere remote, like your email address, or something
>else you've set up on the Web? So that even if an attacker got your
>phone, he wouldn't get the photo?

Here's something that isn't quite what you asked, and
as of the time of the writeup wasn't usuable in the US,
but might give you some other ideas:

http://www.nokiaphoneblog.com/2006/06/nokia_remote_camera_pt6_previe.html

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