Homeowner witnesses their neighbor attaching his hose to their backyard spigot as soon as they leave their home, proceeding to fill his pool for 30 minutes: 'What would you have done?'

How do you handle a neighbor who has the complete inability to respect social (and physical) boundaries?

Recent technological developments have revealed to us a number of everyday curiosities that were probably actually taking place for years outside of the immediate scope of our attention. Probably, for years, these small things went completely unnoticed, small boundaries being tested out of sight and out of mind. 

Neighbors possibly helping themselves to some fruit from your trees or that shovel you left out now and then. Harmless little things that might have been a test of a boundary but otherwise were probably never going to be an issue. These things might even start in the right direction, with neighbors asking to borrow things, small at first and then increasing. But soon, the good actions cease, permission stops being asked, and boundaries are pushed, and then crossed. 

But then, perhaps, that same technology has also possibly pushed us farther apart. 

As the internet, social media, and modern communication has made communcation, theoretically, all the more easy, we have, as we invest more time into that virtual communcation, all become increasingly isolated from our communities, even from our most immediate neighbors, and that sense of distrust has made us all the more eager to install surveillance cameras built into their doorbells, then entire home surveillance systems as soon as they became available. 

Before surveillance systems were within reach in terms of startup costs and cost-effective for the working-class homeowner, it also would have been a lot more common in those same communities for each of us to know our neighbors and have some level of rapport and mutual respect for one another. You'd probably well know who you could trust and who you couldn't.