Easy? Cheap? Do you have a time lapse or motion-activated camera laying around, and a long-play VCR or hard drive recorder handy? I don't. It would cost me several hundred bucks to buy even a low-end model like Sams sells, much less a commercial-grade one. Not to mention, what weather-protected locations do you have to place them in that will provide any useful coverage? There is a reason few ma'n'pa places have cameras anywhere but over register- a system that will do any good is expensive, even using IP cameras and computers as recorders.
And just how do you get them to clean it up, assuming you even recognize the kids to know what house they live in (assuming they are from immediate neighborhood, seldom true in my experience), and further assuming the parents don't slam the door in your face? The tissue will rot off the trees before that happens, I fear. When you get papered, speed is essential, before the paper bonds to the trees. When it happened to me, I said aw shit, put on some clothes, got some long poles out of the garage and duct-taped them together, and had it pretty well cleaned up in less than an hour. Figuring out how to coax the short ends off the tall branches was fun, once I decided to treat it as a challenge.
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