In the small town of Sheffield Alabama, Bill Greer had a friend who was having a problem with crime. Her particular problem was that someone was stealing her grain. According to Bill, she lived outside of town, owned a farm, and "she stored the grain to feed her horses."

Here was someone who lived in a nice and quiet rural area, and even there, someone was stealing from her. There wasn’t any practical way of finding who was doing this because it was such a big, open area. And the animals themselves couldn’t talk... (as far as we know). So how was she going to catch the crook?

That’s when Bill got inspired. He hooked up two XCam2s to the front of his friend’s barn so she could monitor everything that came and went from her living room, or from any television on her property. And then he connected the cameras to her VCR. After showing her how everything worked, they had nothing left to do but wait. And they didn’t have to wait long.

Low and behold, it took only two days to catch the crook.

"It was a neighbor and friend," Bill reports. "So no legal action was taken, but the neighbor was confronted with the tape and restitution was made."

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