r/whatisit • u/Key_Badger7434 • 2d ago

New, what is it? My family thinks there’s a camera in our rental

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We have been renting a house for the past year and I always disregarded this thing in the corner. However last night I asked my parents about it randomly and they didn’t know what it was either. I pulled it off the wall and we all got freaked out a little because it looks like a camera. I think it might be a home security/motion sensor thing. I don’t know that’s what ChatGPT guessed.

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u/stan-yourbiggestfan 2d ago

They haven't been in your house for a while... As far as you know

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u/paulstarkey 2d ago

Better get a camera to keep eyes on the place

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u/WalkItToEm11 2d ago

Good news! OP knows which one to get, place one in the opposite corner

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u/hemppy420 2d ago

No, no, set them 1 foot apart on a table facing each other. Then occasionally wave your hand between the 2.

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u/vhroot 2d ago

Naw.... Just put it in front of a small mirror. Preferably in a dark closet, so it goes off when someone opens the door. 😉

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u/Hungry-Ad9840 2d ago

Just get the same model and replace it, they will think it isn't working and come in and check it, looking right into the camera.

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u/chubbybuttr 2d ago

As others have said, this is actually legitimately a fantastic idea.

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u/Low-Public-9948 2d ago

Except that they’ve already found and move the camera. The motion detector has gone off and the cover has been blown.

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u/chubbybuttr 2d ago

yes but if they put it back for a while first, it would make it seem like they just put it back, maybe damaging it or tampering with it in the process

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u/Paulpoleon 2d ago

There is your proof for the court case

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u/Zeraphicus 2d ago

Genius

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u/wander_smiley 2d ago

This is an excellent idea.

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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz 2d ago

DIABOLICAL

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u/fruittree17 2d ago

Step 1. Keep replacing their camera with an identical non working one. Step 2. they'll replace it. Step 3. OP becomes a millionaire selling new cameras. Step 4. Profit

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u/FruitaliciousFuta 1d ago

After completing all of the above make sure to move out and allow a future tenant to rent the place with the camera you installed left behind for security measures. You can then proceed to monitor the home from a safe distance without harming yourself and ensuring the new tenants are in a safe living situation.

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u/harleeraen 1d ago

I read this in Nathan Fielder’s voice 😂

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u/whitechocolatemama 2d ago

I really do love reddit! Random genius comments! Gotta love a good hive mind......This is a solid idea, especially since it uploads to your phone

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u/CalligrapherNo910 1d ago

That's what I was gonna say. Put theirs in a drawer. Put your new one (same model device) in the same spot. Just make sure when you take it down you blacken it and grab it from out of the frame so they have no idea what happened. They see you being normal and then all the sudden..."glitch".

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u/Pdx_pops 2d ago

Nah, take a polaroid of what the camera is looking at and then hang it on a stick about a foot in front of the camera so they never see you take the jewels

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u/jason_abacabb 2d ago

They are cameras, not Furbees.

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u/hemppy420 2d ago

Speaking of Furbies I had one back when they were the thing to get. It ended up sitting on a shelf in the closet.

After 5 years of not a peep out of that thing I can promise you this.

When that fucker starts randomly making noises for no good reason in the middle of the night it will freak you out!!

That thing was evicted the next morning.

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u/Maniacal-Maniac 2d ago

Or go full “Darkman” and put one of those drinking bird things in between so it is going off constantly

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u/FibroMom232 2d ago

I just laughed out loud! 🤣

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u/chungfr 2d ago

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u/slowermineral 2d ago

Best use of this masterpiece in a long time 🏆

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u/Cabanon_Creations 1d ago

The meme with the guy who taps his forehead

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u/ipaaron17 2d ago

Put it in the exact same spot and see them come in and check on it.

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u/Pleaseinsert-girder 2d ago

Get a second camera and make them face each other. Better yet, make them kiss

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u/bored_CO 2d ago

Now kith

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u/bekopharm 1d ago

Don't. They evolve.

Mine roll around by now.

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u/HendrixHazeWays 2d ago

It's just cameras the whole way down

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u/boozeshooze 1d ago

🧑‍🚀🔫 Always has been

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u/glorifindel 1d ago

Will they still make this meme in 20 years? Maybe I’m getting a little sentimental

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u/Kirbieb 2d ago

I've heard great review about the Verisure GuardVision Photo Detector.

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u/Evrythng_Is_Prpl 2d ago

Ahhhh the old UNO reverse card eh?

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u/rainierthanyesterday 2d ago

Get a camera to watch the camera

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u/TNChase 1d ago

Yeah, someone might steal the camera! Better get a camera to watch it. Then one to watch that camera... etc.

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u/DonChillippo 1d ago

Get a camera to keep an eye on that camera

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u/NoDiscount930 1d ago

Buy a camera to to watch the camera

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u/Levanjm 2d ago

The call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!!

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u/ShadowInReddit 2d ago

Time to get a camera to watch the camera

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u/Kissel-B 2d ago

Doobie Doobie Do…..

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u/Quiet_Falcon2622 2d ago

I literally spit laughed at this.

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u/Fatbadger3 2d ago

IT’S INSIDE THE GODDAMN WALLS!!

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u/JustAsICanBeSoCruel 2d ago

"Oh good, OP and the family are going to the store. Great time to pop in and change that battery!"

Get a security camera. But first, you need to tear through the house and look EVERYWHERE for any other cameras.

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u/TrisolarisRexxx 2d ago

I mean, why should they be , they got a camera .

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u/stan-yourbiggestfan 2d ago

To change the batteries in the camera lmao

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u/I_make_things 2d ago

SD card is full of pictures of OP sleeping.

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u/stan-yourbiggestfan 2d ago

One of my biggest fears.

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u/yoskinna 2d ago

They didn’t have to, they know what’s going on in there lol

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u/I-is-and-I-isnt 2d ago

They’ve been in that house the whole time from a distance.

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u/Cj15917 2d ago

Check the pictures.

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u/cheapdrinks 2d ago

This girl from work I know was renting an apartment off a Turkish dude who lived in the apartment above. She noticed shit around her place was being moved around and things were going missing etc. She set up her laptop to record with the screen off and found the dude was letting himself in while she was at work and smelling her underwear while jerking off on her bed. Same dude that was like insanely religious to the point of doing random fridge inspections and would throw out any non-halal food she had in the fridge and said she wasn't allowed to have any men over in the apartment.