Aussie mum's outrage over neighbour's "creepy" act
An Aussie mum has slammed her neighbour for being a "creep" after spotting a surveillance camera which she claims is pointed directly into her bathroom window.
A photo taken of the set-up showed the camera poking out from underneath the blinds behind a window on the property next door.
"It was facing the car park, and now it's facing my window [and it has] been there for the last four days," she wrote in the Facebook post, adding that she lives on private property and is not sure what to do.
"It's facing my bathroom window. Disgusting. I have two young kids here."
The post blew up, with hundreds of locals urging the mum-of-two to speak to her neighbour, put privacy screens, or tint her windows, to which the mum responded: "I shouldn't have to tint my windows to feel safe enough to have a shower."
"I live on private property, he comes off as a creep."
Despite revealing that she had issues with the neighbour in the past over her dog, the woman went and talked to the neighbour.
"[I] went and spoke with them," she wrote.
"Apparently it's not facing my backyard, only theirs, but clearly it is, so I will be taking it further.
"It isn't for a backyard, it's for a car park that never gets used, only during the weekdays, but it's not even pointing anywhere near that direction anymore. It's legit right into my windows."
Property lawyer Monica Rouvella told Yahoo News that there are several things the woman could do if this continues.
"One of them is to contact the local police and they can come out and actually request to view that person's footage to see exactly what's been looked at," she said.
"And then the police can actually, I believe, request that the camera be taken down or repositioned."
She also said the Hunter Valley mum could try going through local councils, but they might refer back to the police.
"The other takeaway is, you know, these days everybody has a camera on their house," she told the publication.
"So you know, if you don't like that then don't do things you shouldn't be doing. But yeah, if it is directed at a person's house or window then that's a violation of that person's privacy."
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