Your ignorance is the Devil's bliss. Every time you scorn what confounds you, he smiles. Every time you sow the fear of him where there was none, he laughs. It's you he loves. It's you he thanks in his evening prayers. -Everville
Quote:BOTHELL, Wash. — A father's decision to install a Web camera at home paid off when his son, logging on from Washington, D.C., spotted an intruder and alerted authorities who made an arrest.
Snohomish County sheriff's deputies said the father installed the camera because he suspected someone had been in the house in the suburbs northeast of Seattle while the family was away.
"I've never heard of anything like this," sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said. "I think it's really cool they set this thing up when they had concerns."
Last Friday the 18-year-old son logged on and saw images of a neighbor, also 18, who was supposed to be looking after the family's cats but had been told to stay out of the house.
Soon afterward, Jorgensen said, deputies pressed the house intercom button and said, "Come out with your hands up."
Getting no response, deputies began a search and found the intruder lying in the shower.
"The (suspect) did have a falling out with his parents and was looking for a place to stay," Jorgensen said.
Investigators said the home had been ransacked, the intruder's belongings and food wrappers were scattered around the interior and video footage showed him downloading pornography on the family's computer.
The intruder was jailed for investigation of burglary.
