We live in a terraced house with a 4m high stone wall about 10m from the back of our house. We have a patio, and the house above has their back yard on the other side of the stone wall which has a row of latticework stones on top (with small gaps in). The house above is rented out. They can see over the wall because the ground level of their yard is higher.
Last summer I noticed a small square black object wedged into the latticework, but couldn’t see clearly what it was until I got a pair of binoculars out and realised it was a webcam. It was facing down at the back windows of our house. Wife was shitting bricks. I felt instantly enraged but thought well I’ll test it and see. I got a long pole and pushed the camera back and it fell down into their side. The next day it was back up. There was no reason for it to be there except to film our yard.
I asked my BIL who is in the police what we could do. He said better to just deal with it alone since it’s hard to prove any wrongdoing. So, I got up there on a ladder, grabbed the camera down and basically crushed it with a hammer and tossed it in the rubbish. About a week later another one appeared. So this time we put up a sign directly opposite which spelt out what we would do if they didn’t take it down.
The camera disappeared but it wasn’t until a couple of months later that I ran into a bloke who lives on that street and I asked about who lives in the house above. Glad I didn’t confront them, the guy apparently has a rep for being a pervert so at least we now know to keep the curtains shut. I did write to the landlord though who lives in another country and told them what happened so they can decide whether to renew that lease. With property in high demand I figure it’s only a matter of time until pervert gets booted out.