So I'd like to hear some opinions on this odd situation that happened to me this weekend.
I have outdoor cameras for security, although I live in a decent neighborhood and have only had to use their photo one time in close to a decade. Better safe than sorry in my mind. They automatically activate at 9 PM and trigger on motion, and then turn off at 7 AM. I check them in the morning and 99.9% of it has been insects, passing cars, etc.
Sunday morning I checked and the one over my garage, on the right (while facing towards) side of my house had triggered around midnight, capturing someone who came into frame like they had come out from beside my house. I live in a neighborhood, and there is a house close beside me on either side (like 30 feet away, not 3, so a bit of yard space between us) but that side of my house only has the gate to my back yard. The neighbor's gate is on the far side of their house, so there would be no reason to go into that section of yard, barring yard work or doing something to their fence. The video it captured was someone walking away from my house, but stepping onto my driveway and walking past my car to do so. They didn't slow, they didn't reach out/look at my car, they just walked away from my house while walking down my driveway. My back yard has a camera above my door that catches a large chunk of my back yard, but it doesn't cover the gate so theoretically someone could have come in the gate, but I have nothing of value near the gate, or in the entire yard for that matter. The back of the head looks a LOT like the teenager that lives next door with his parents. Same hair cut/texture and height and the shirt looks vaguely like one I've seen him wear.
However, if it WAS the neighbor kid, why would he have not walked to his left, towards his house, instead of to his right and onto my driveway? What purpose would he have had being between our houses in that spot in the first place? I've come up with two vague ideas, the first being he's smoking weed and since there are no windows on that side of his house, he's going where his parents can't see him. The other is that he was in his back yard, and somehow something went over the fence and since the fence between our yard has seen better days, he made the smart choice and walked around his house and into my yard to get it, although I would have expected his return path to have hugged his house closer instead of going onto my driveway. Of course, this also presume it WAS the neighbor kid. I guess it could have been someone wandering the neighborhood who isn't from here, but in that case if they're going into yards that deep, they're looking for stuff to steal, so I would have expected him to check out my car.
The neighbor kid comes out and works on his truck from time to time, so my thought is to maybe just ask him if it was him the next time he's doing that. I'm not mad at him, especially since there's nothing for him to screw with on the side of my house, and what he did on camera was just walk away. I'm just super confused why he was there in the first place. I'm not looking to get him in trouble with his parents, since he wasn't doing anything other than walking away from my house, so I don't want to go over and ask them if it was him.
Thoughts?