The society that we live in, is a descent society with most of the people being educated and everyone shows up to be very nice, even though they are not in reality and the most difficult part of this is, how do you prove that ? They glitter like gold, speaking nice words on face, appearing to be very polite, gentle but once they see an opportunity for some personal benefit, they take advantage of that, without bothering about how that would hurt others.
So to show them what they pretend to be but actually not in reality, I fitted this CCTV at my own cost, to catch people who would take flowers from my plant, that I grow with lot of care, like a child.
Finally the day came, when someone did the mischief and even left the evidence - a broken big branch, after taking flowers. Looking at CCTV footage is not an easy job, you will have to spend considerable amount of time to first find out the time and then zoom in to collect evidence. It almost took 5 hours to do this - more than half a day job.
She manged to be careful to not show her face on my camera, but we have cameras all around, so after finding the time, I looked upon other cameras and capture few images.
Surprisingly none of our staff recognized her, so I posted her photo in our whatsapp group asking her identity and that is when things went west. Some people argued, this violates personal privacy, even though she did the wrong thing, some came in my support as they have seen my hard work. But why would you steal the reward of someone else's hard work ? Just because you see an opportunity and think only about yourself ?
I tried to revive that branch and gathered courage to not listen to anyone and decided to confront her. Since I even did not know her, so I had to again find on other cameras to see which house she went to, and then walked to her door. The most interesting part of this real event was she out-rightly refused doing the misdeed, not knowing that she was captured on CCTV.
For a moment I was speechless, how do you react to such situations ? Then I politely told her that I have CCTV footage of what she did, her reactions instantly changed - I did not know that there is a CCTV, else I would not have done this....I have come recently to my daughter's house.
But did you ask anyone ? Come on, that means, it's not your real behavior, you would not hesitate to do the same thing again, if the CCTV is removed, isn't it ?
No, I won't do this again.....I preferred to not extend the conversation, as it's really bad to hurt a woman. Coming back I was thinking, how can people do this ? Me and my wife can't even use our own stuff, without asking, if we feel the situation requires that. She is very innocent, and many of her friends take advantage of that which has resulted in her having very limited friends now.
I did inform in the group that I have identified the lady and that caught fire - many wanted the CCTV to be removed, but thankfully there are few good people who are with me. People always try to glitter like gold, but truth always prevails, it may take some time. Coming Winter, I am going to put a board - YOU ARE ON CCTV - now you decide how to maintain your privacy!!
Interestingly, after all this someone close to us told she knew the lady but did not have the courage to tell. It's an interesting world we live in - gold will always glitter without advertising.
This post is in response to the Creative Nonfiction Prompt #143.
Note - Face of the lady has been blurred to maintain her privacy...this post is only intended to showcase the reality, not a person.
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