Indeed, very nice presentation, great addition to the
Cliff Notes on this forum. I really liked the ending slides, you should have made an NCIS remake, zooming in with turbo lenses, improving the image until you could identify Donald Duck as the stupid driver ;-)
During my talk, I provided some more detail about the story behind those last few slides. My neighbor was furious when he saw the damage to his car the next morning, but the camera footage helped him find the driver. This happened before I installed my front porch PTZ camera and my LPR cameras, so the
Amcrest camera recordings were the best that I could provide. Fortunately, the driver and his girlfriend visited a party at the house two doors down from my neighbor's house. I was able to tell my neighbor when the couple arrived and when they left.
So my neighbor went down to the house (being rented by some college students) and said, "Last night someone came to your house party. He arrived with his girlfriend at 11:45 p.m., and left at 1:13 a.m. He hit my car, got out to examine the damage, then drove off. He left no note. I have all of this recorded on a security camera. Can you help me find him?"
The renters gave up their friend on the spot. As it turned out, he was a freshman at a local college, and (from what I later heard) told his Dad that his brand-new car had been hit in a parking lot. My neighbor contacted the student, met with him the next day, and basically said, "We can make this a matter between your insurance company and mine, or I can call the police." The bit about the police was a bit of a bluff, as they had zero interest in dealing with a minor accident two days after it happened, but the kid didn't know that.
So the college kid had to call up Dad and tell him the truth about what happened. (Ouch!) Their insurance covered the damage to my neighbor's car, my neighbor was happy, and hopefully the student learned a valuable lesson about taking responsibility for one's actions.
