[krstffr]

A friend of a friend had a break in in his house last week and could see the burglars in his kids room via his cameras on his phone.

He also had the hopeless feeling of there being nothing to do, but had some sort of Eureka-moment and started playing “Fuck the police” on max volume on the floor above (all via his phone), and that apparently sent the burglars running!

(When he later talked to the cops they did call him a genius but questioned the song choice.)

[mLuby]

Every breath you take

Every move you make

Every bond you break

Every step you take

I'll be watching you

or

One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya

I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!

[drchopchop]

The theme song from Cops ("Bad Boys" by Inner Circle) would have been brilliant, actually

[Zenst]

The distinctive sound of a walkie talkie chirp is also a good sound to play, had it as my message alert on my phone - the number of people who suddenly think your a cop and get spooked.

Though any music works best as shows somebody in and most burglars don't want anybody there as then it becomes a robbery and those sentences are higher. So playing music good and your choice is pretty excellent in the psychological factor upon the burglars.

[dredmorbius]

A bit of recorded police scanner chatter was used by Mark Rober on his Glitter Bomb 2.0:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_TSR_v07m0&t=3m29s

[moneywoes]

Wasn't that faked anyway

[KerrickStaley]

Please don't create low-effort posts like this that criticize / question the veracity of another post with zero evidence or context, it just creates noise and makes it harder for people to trust content posted on Hacker News.

If the above video was faked, and you could post a link or some context showing how it was faked, that would be a good contribution.

Thanks :)

[KerrickStaley]

Here is an article where they discuss how some of the reactions in the initial version of the video were faked (by an acquaintance of the video's creator who was hired to help), but the creator acknowledged the issue (which he wasn't aware of when he initially published the video) and rectified it by removing those clips from the video: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/glitter-bomb-video-was-parti...

[markdown]

"I'm gonna give you to the count of three, to get your lousy, lyin', no good, low down, four flushing carcass out my door! 1, 2..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bUcNjmuSk

[dylan604]

KRS-One "sound of da police"

[HenryBemis]

Just thought of "Body count is in the house" by Body count. It starts with police sirens, and it is "loud" enough.

[Balgair]

The intro to 50 Cent's Massacre may also be a good chice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNBbQV_rCzQ

[jxramos]

to the contrary if he played the Public Enemy song loud I think they'd fear being counter ambushed by some thugs unless the house gave away the identity of the owner. In otherwords the criminals may recognize that specific song, or at least discern some hard old school rap music.

[homonculus1]

"Fuck tha Police" is an NWA track, just fyi

[jxramos]

My bad, absolutely right.

[mkhpalm]

A couple options

* Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins

* Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N Roses

* Surfin' Bird by Trashmen