The management company at our apartment complex has responded to the recent thefts by posting the following new signs on the two front entrance gates:
"Private property. No Trespassing. Violators will be prosecuted." (always effective)
and
"Warning: This community is being monitored by a surveillance camera."
Note the singular noun -- "a surveillance camera". As far as I can tell, there really is only one. It's right in front of the management office, to make those of us in the 125 apartments not monitored by the security camera feel oh-so-safe. I'm willing to bet it's not even real. We sell dummy security cameras at work, and one of them looks just like the one atop our management office. Granted, that's the point of a dummy camera--to look just like the really thing. It still makes me wonder, though...
Posted by waltondammerung at April 11, 2004 11:56 PMMaybe if they changed it to "Violators will be violated" then they'd scare off a few more.
Posted by: Will at April 13, 2004 10:45 AMMy apartment building is for sale. Wah!
Posted by: Vic at April 19, 2004 11:07 AM