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I live in a mobile home co-op with 200 units, and increasingly, people are adding security lighting to the front of their homes, and given many of the houses all but front the street, they put in these security lights, and when you walk by at night, I feel like I'm being shot at, and blinded. One of the residents, who despises them as much as I do, said if you walk really, really slow by one, it won't go off! Haven't tested that yet.
I complained to the Board, urged a moratorium on more security lights, to no avail. IMO, it comes under the heading of Invasion of my Privacy.
In Tucson, we have a big telescope on top of one of the mountains here and, as a result, Tucson tries hard to minimize light pollution. Surrounding my mobile home community, radiating outward are residential streets with no street lights. When walking there I run into people carrying flashlights, and of all places, you'd expect to see a plethora of security lights. Nope! Just porch lights! How interesting, as we have street lights in our mobile home park.
So I'm curious if security lights are restricted, in particularly, in the many HOA communities across the country, or any regular neighborhoods.
And I'm not referring to security surveillance cameras.
Security lights are encouraged in our HOA neighborhood. Most homes here have them, no complaints as long as they're aimed correctly.
And do some of these homes still get burglarized?
A couple summers ago, being a night owl, walking around the community at 2am I ran into a bicyclist with a backpack, emerging from the patio area of a home here, which was floodlit in front. Apparently, those lights didn't scare him the least.
Some of the security light/motion sensor issue is one that feeds on itself.
When we first started to get a lot of migration from the inner DC suburbs thirty or so years ago signs denoting various houses had a security system popped up like dandelions in the Spring.
People would come down and see those signs and assume that the area was a crime ridden hellhole (now it didn't stop anyone from buying a house for a lot less not to mention a lower overall tax load) when it wasn't. The signs made it seem so.
What happened was that people brought their lifestyle, if you will, down from where they'd lived before. The same for the demand for sidewalks and streetlights on country roads.
I remember security lighting back in the day being fairly useless because (1) it often would go on just from someone walking on the sidewalk or even cars driving by (2) wild animals would set it off too, and it wouldn't even need to be deer, a bird would be sufficient. As a result people got totally desensitized to it and wouldn't pay much attention to it going on.
I suspect technology has changed in that regard sufficiently that this stuff can all be customized now easily by app.
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